Registered nurses occupy one of the largest groups of health care providers. Often time’s nurses work overtime and consecutive shifts without adequate breaks or rest time. Most new graduates in the nursing field are required to do shift work hours due to lack of experience. Shift work hours refers to night shift 12 hour tour 8pm-8am or night tour 8 hours 12 midnight-8am.Working days are a privilege in the nursing field and it requires years of experience due to the tour itself being very heavy. What makes
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The concept of a 12 hour shift for nurses developed in the 1970s as a solution to the nursing shortage that existed and still exists in both the United States and globally. Since the implementation of 12 hour shifts‚ studies have revealed additional benefits. Nurses are more content and satisfied‚ reporting “higher job satisfaction and less emotional exhaustion” (Stone‚ 2006‚ p. 1103). Patient safety and satisfaction is enriched “through improved communication‚ increased continuity of care‚ and more
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Fatigue‚ and Recovery Between Shifts One of the most prominent aspects of nurses’ lives that are detrimentally impacted by working 12-hour shifts is their sleep. Research shows that extended work schedules and sustained shift work‚ such as that seen in 12-hour shifts‚ can interfere with nurses’ abilities to achieve adequate sleep by reducing the number of hours for physical and cognitive recovery and the number of hours that can be devoted to sleeping between shifts (Geiger-Brown et al.‚ 2011; Geiger-Brown
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Introduction Generally shift work is becoming more predominant as a working agenda in the public sector and during 2005-2006‚ Work safe Australia (2009) calculated that at least 16% or 1.6 million Australians were engaged in shift work. Subsequently‚ recent studies outlined by Kantermann et al. (2010) suggest that the health and wellbeing of millions of employee’s are seriously affected by shift work. The impact of shift work can play havoc to various homeostatic mechanisms on individuals‚ particularly
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The work schedule of the police force inflicts a high level stressful condition that may impact upon their bodily‚ mental and mutual relationships. For a long span of time the police workers are coached in policing‚ but not about the issues relating to handling their mental and physical health. Most of the times they have to work for extended durations and irregular shift hours (Vila‚ 2006). A large body of work has shown that shift work of police is linked with increased spread of sleep disorders
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HLTEN401A WORK IN THE NURSING PROFESSION. ASSESSMENT AND SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS. Q1. In the earliest forms of nursing‚ men were the carers of the sick and dying. The hospitals were founded by the military‚ and little equipment existed to enable the wounded to recover. Throughout the 16th to early 19th Centuries‚ nursing was carried out by both men and women‚ in overcrowded wards‚ training for nurses was non-existent‚ and many nurses were of bad character. By the middle of the 19th Century
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1a Explain the differences between modern day nursing education and the old hospital based training model Modern day nursing is quite a different experience and process when compared to the old hospital based training system. Today’s nursing is theory based. Nurses learn the theory behind actions‚ procedures and decisions‚ before gaining the experience of performing the action or duty within the profession. In stark contrast the hospital based system is on the job‚ training where the nurses learn
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PAPER TOPIC: issues that arise from working shift work Introduction Many jobs today work around the conventional time schedule‚ such as working 8am to 4pm. The human body comes built with a biological clock that keeps everything in sync. One may ask what a biological clock is. This paper will explore the effects that are caused by working shift work. Shift work can be defined as “a system of employment where an individual’s normal hours of work are‚ in part‚ outside the period of normal day
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Work engagement is key to organizational efforts to retain nurses and mitigate future nursing shortages. In their dual role as caregivers and organization “keepers‚” nurses may already have the key to creating a culture of engagement. “The characteristics and benefits of “engaging” work environments are captured in nursing professional practice models‚ as evidenced by a quarter century of research on Magnet hospitals and professional practice.” (ANA 2004) An inflection point‚ providing an opportunity
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Literature Review Work environment According to the business dictionary‚ the work environment includes the physical geographical location as well as the immediate surroundings of the workplace‚ such as a construction site or office building. There are typically other workplace factors relating to the place of employment like the standard of the air‚ noise level‚ and extra benefits and advantages of employment such as free child care or unlimited coffee‚ or adequate parking (Business Dictionary
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