sleep presentation
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SLEEP DEPRIVATION
AMONG NURSES WORKING
NIGHT SHIFTCheryl Flaherty, ADN, CCRN, PCCN
Nursing 417
Boise State University
AS NURSES, WE OFTEN MAKE THE CARE OF OTHERS A PRIORITY.
But what about our health?
Nurses working the night shift all too often try to function on too little sleep, unaware they are endangering others.
Often they are even more unaware that their own health is at risk.
ARE NURSES CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR HEALTH RELATED TO SHIFT WORK?After to speaking with coworkers, I
found that some had concerns, but not enough to make lifestyle changes at this time.
ISSUES WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION 56% of nurses are sleep deprived6
Increased risk of car accidents (responsible for 100,000 automobile crashes, 71,000 injuries, and 1,550 fatalities each year)4
Increased risk of medication errors (7,000 deaths annually)2
Falling asleep on the job Poor judgment Poor quality of life
(chronic fatigue)
EFFECTS TO OUR OWN HEALTH Circadium rhythm disturbance³
Increase in inflammatory markers¹
Increased risk of atherosclerosis in men and increase in cholesterol in both men and women
Poor eating habits/physical inactivity8
Increased risk of breast and endometrial cancers7
BE PROACTIVE WITH YOUR HEALTH Make sleep one of your top
priorities
Be aware of increased risk factors
Be more pleasant to those around you
Adopt a healthier lifestyle.
POST PRESENTATION Nurses more concerned
Some possibly willing to make lifestyle changes
Some now correlating current health problems with possible relation to shift work
¹Alireza, S., Khrsro, S., Omid, A., etal. (2011) Night work and inflammatory markers. Indian journal of occupational
and environmental medicine, 15(1) 38. Retrieved September 17, 2011 from
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²Anderson, P., & Townsend, T. (2010). Medication errors: don’t let them happen to you. American nurse today. Retrieved
October 15, 2011 from
http://www.americannursetoday.com/assets/0/434/436/440/6276/6334/6350/6356/8b8dac76-6061-
4521-8b43-d0928ef8de07.pdf
³Arendt, J. (2010) Shift work: coping with the biological clock. Occupational medicine, 60(1), 10-20. Retrieved September 18,
2011 from http://occmed.oxfordjournals.org.libproxy.boisestate.edu/content/60/1/10.full
4Breus, M. PhD. Chronic sleep deprivation may harm health. Sleep habits: more important than you think. Retrieved
October 20, 2011 from http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/important-sleep-habits
5Elovanio, M., Kivimaki, M., Puttones, S., et al. (2009) shift work in young adults and carotid artery intima
media thickness: the cardiovascular risk in young finns study. Atherosclerosis. 205(2), 608-
613. Retrieved September 18, 2011 from http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.boisestate.edu
/science/article/pii/s0021915009000586
REFERENCES
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8Wong, H., Wong, M., Wong, S., et al. (2010) The association between shift duty and abnormal eating behavior among nurses
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