Eight-Hour Vs. Twelve-Hour Shifts: Effects On Patient Safety
Eight-Hour versus Twelve-Hour Shifts: Effects on Patient Safety
The profession of nursing has changed and grown immensely throughout the past century. Nurses’ responsibilities have increased; today, they not only care for the sick, but they perform advanced technical skills and are required to know more about medications, technology, educating patients on their conditions, and how to monitor changes in patient status. Increased responsibility coupled with collaboration of multiple disciplines, increased demands, and interruptions throughout the day, tends to place nurses in a position in which they will often forego their breaks or work later than scheduled in order to accomplish all of these tasks. Throughout history, nurses have always worked long, demanding hours, …show more content…
(2012). Mandatory overtime. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/State/Legislative-Agenda-Reports/MandatoryOvertime
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, (2010). Sharps safety for healthcare settings. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/sharpssafety/index.html
Chapman, K. (2009). Improving communication among nurses, patients, and physicians: A series of changes leads to cultural transformation at a TCAB hospital. American Journal of Nursing, 119(11), 21-25. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/pdf.asp?AID=940556
Ellis, J. (2008). Quality of care, nurses’ work schedules, and fatigue. A White Paper: Washington State Nurses Association. Retrieved from website: http://www.wsna.org/Topics/Fatigue/documents/fatigue-white-paper.pdf
Idaho Department of Labor. (2010). Guide to Idaho labor laws. Retrieved from http://labor.idaho.gov/pdf/wagehour.pdf
Joshi, M., Currier, A., O’Brain, K. (2011) Bedside change-of-shift reporting: A strategy to increase patient safety. The National Patient Safety Foundation. Retrieved from
The profession of nursing has changed and grown immensely throughout the past century. Nurses’ responsibilities have increased; today, they not only care for the sick, but they perform advanced technical skills and are required to know more about medications, technology, educating patients on their conditions, and how to monitor changes in patient status. Increased responsibility coupled with collaboration of multiple disciplines, increased demands, and interruptions throughout the day, tends to place nurses in a position in which they will often forego their breaks or work later than scheduled in order to accomplish all of these tasks. Throughout history, nurses have always worked long, demanding hours, …show more content…
(2012). Mandatory overtime. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/State/Legislative-Agenda-Reports/MandatoryOvertime
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, (2010). Sharps safety for healthcare settings. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/sharpssafety/index.html
Chapman, K. (2009). Improving communication among nurses, patients, and physicians: A series of changes leads to cultural transformation at a TCAB hospital. American Journal of Nursing, 119(11), 21-25. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/pdf.asp?AID=940556
Ellis, J. (2008). Quality of care, nurses’ work schedules, and fatigue. A White Paper: Washington State Nurses Association. Retrieved from website: http://www.wsna.org/Topics/Fatigue/documents/fatigue-white-paper.pdf
Idaho Department of Labor. (2010). Guide to Idaho labor laws. Retrieved from http://labor.idaho.gov/pdf/wagehour.pdf
Joshi, M., Currier, A., O’Brain, K. (2011) Bedside change-of-shift reporting: A strategy to increase patient safety. The National Patient Safety Foundation. Retrieved from