Twelve-hour nursing shifts are unsafe it should be ended because working more than 8 hour shifts are unhealthy and would cause permanent damages in the future .When overwhelming your body with constant lack of sleep working back to back night and morning shifts and stressing about the lack of time that you are spending with your family .I believe that working overwhelming shifts can affect your physical and mental state of mind but also can affects the way you complete your job and the amount of time you spend time with you family .
When having long nursing shifts cause a person to be physically exhausted and drain.What people don 't know about working 12 hour shifts is that it can cause you to lose control of your sleeping daily routine …show more content…
Secondly when you work yourself too much you body starts to give up on you like it 's stated in the journal article”Twelve-hour nursing shifts are unsafe let 's end them” ,by Dai H, Milkman KL (1) that They also warn that people who are sleep deprived can experience microsleep periods (little lapses in attention) and inter-shift fatigue. This means that a nurse going from one shift to the next will not have fully recovered from the previous one. While working successive 12-hour shifts, nurses will accumulate a substantial .sleep debt’ with associated fatigue and sleepiness. It is known that some nurses are more vulnerable to sleep loss than others. What this means is that when you constantly work long hour shifts its less likely that you function properly because your not having …show more content…
A job is something that should be treasure because not just anybody can get a job and do it efficiently .When working in a hospital you have to make sure to take care of yourself so you can take care of other ,take in consideration that working it great but you can 't overwork yourself because it later going to get back to you .What I mean by that is that if you work a 12 hour nursing shift and you haven 't have the proper amount asleep you are more likely to feel more drowsy and make more mistakes while taking care a patient .According to Geiger-Brown J, Trinkoff AM. Is it time to pull the plug on 12-hour shifts? Part 1. The evidence. J Nurs Adm 2010;40:100-102.”Hospitals can take steps to ensure that schedules allow enough time for rest and minimize fatigue, says Geiger-Brown. Here are some suggestions from the University of Maryland researchers: Offer shifts of varied lengths: Offering shifts of shorter length can reduce fatigue and may even attract some other nurses back into hospitals, says Geiger-Brown”.In other words what Geiger Brown was trying to say that hospital have to make sure that their employes have a flexible schedule that would help them have the proper amount a sleep .I believe that every employee have the right to have a flexible schedule that would give them the time to do personal thing and
When having long nursing shifts cause a person to be physically exhausted and drain.What people don 't know about working 12 hour shifts is that it can cause you to lose control of your sleeping daily routine …show more content…
Secondly when you work yourself too much you body starts to give up on you like it 's stated in the journal article”Twelve-hour nursing shifts are unsafe let 's end them” ,by Dai H, Milkman KL (1) that They also warn that people who are sleep deprived can experience microsleep periods (little lapses in attention) and inter-shift fatigue. This means that a nurse going from one shift to the next will not have fully recovered from the previous one. While working successive 12-hour shifts, nurses will accumulate a substantial .sleep debt’ with associated fatigue and sleepiness. It is known that some nurses are more vulnerable to sleep loss than others. What this means is that when you constantly work long hour shifts its less likely that you function properly because your not having …show more content…
A job is something that should be treasure because not just anybody can get a job and do it efficiently .When working in a hospital you have to make sure to take care of yourself so you can take care of other ,take in consideration that working it great but you can 't overwork yourself because it later going to get back to you .What I mean by that is that if you work a 12 hour nursing shift and you haven 't have the proper amount asleep you are more likely to feel more drowsy and make more mistakes while taking care a patient .According to Geiger-Brown J, Trinkoff AM. Is it time to pull the plug on 12-hour shifts? Part 1. The evidence. J Nurs Adm 2010;40:100-102.”Hospitals can take steps to ensure that schedules allow enough time for rest and minimize fatigue, says Geiger-Brown. Here are some suggestions from the University of Maryland researchers: Offer shifts of varied lengths: Offering shifts of shorter length can reduce fatigue and may even attract some other nurses back into hospitals, says Geiger-Brown”.In other words what Geiger Brown was trying to say that hospital have to make sure that their employes have a flexible schedule that would help them have the proper amount a sleep .I believe that every employee have the right to have a flexible schedule that would give them the time to do personal thing and