Nurses Should Be Driven To Work

'A recent study that tracked 56 nurses found a significant proportion were driving while dangerously sleepy'.

Nurses were asked to rate their level of fatigue each time they drove to and from work during a two-week period that included both day and night shifts. ‘There’s a scale from one to nine for sleepiness, and about 15% of the trips were rated as eight or nine, which is very sleepy – quite close to falling asleep,’ Dr Smith told delegates at an Australian Sleep Association conference last month.

'We know from previous data that, that rating is associated with a highly increased risk of crashing. We looked at 1,300 trips, so about 150 of those were made by drivers who were sleepy.'