Nurses Need Their Sleep
Type: Union News Subject: Nursing Issues
5 September 2007
Nurses are not sleeping well and their work is suffering as a result, according to a US survey of more than 2,000 nurses.
More than half the respondents battled to get a good night's sleep with more than a quarter indicating they suffered from bouts of insomnia. Yet only 30% of the nurses sought professional care to improve their sleeping habits.
According to the survey's findings, sleeping problems for nurses are most likely to cause the following problems within the workplace - medication-dispensing errors, deviations from standard charting prac-tices and falling asleep on the job.
The survey highlighted the difficulty posed by shift work in combination with our increasingly busy lifestyles, and linked this to the development of insomnia.
'These findings remind us that sleep is not a luxury - it is an absolute necessity,' said Dr Mark Rosekind who conducted the survey.
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