12 Hour Shifts: Literature Reviewed, Wise Use Challenged. Issue 1 (January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kupperschmidt, Betty
• Is Part Of: Journal of Christian nursing. Volume 35:Issue 1(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-01
• Subjects: fatigue -- 12-hour shifts -- nurse outcomes -- nursing -- patient safety -- sleep deprivation; Nursing ethics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Periodicals; Christianity -- Periodicals; Nursing Care -- Periodicals; Religion and Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Nursing ethics; Periodicals; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 610.73
• DOI: 10.1097/CNJ.0000000000000450
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0743-2550

Abstract

Abstract : ABSTRACT: Concern is reported about the negative outcomes of 12-hour shifts for nurses, including sleep-deprived fatigue, negative neurobehavioral outcomes, and patient safety. However, 12-hour shifts remain the prevailing staffing method. When should the concern for nurses' health and well-being be factored into staffing decisions? If the 12-hour model was used more wisely, that is, nurses were not working too much and/or too long, would there be a need for change? Will nurses and researchers pursue ways to address the negative outcomes of 12-hour shifts?