Do Doctors and Nurses Need to Nap During Night Shifts?
Doctors or nurses who work more than 3-night shifts in a row can be dangerous to both patients' safety and their own personal safety.
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Doctors or nurses who work more than 3-night shifts in a row can be dangerous to both patients' safety and their own personal safety.
A review at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Milan, Italy (4-6 June) on the potentially lethal effects of fatigue on doctors and nurses themselves, and its impact on the quality of their clinical work and judgment and therefore patient safety, will be given by Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Nancy Redfern of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK.
Experts have warned that sleep deprived medical staff pose as much of a risk on roads as drunk drivers and have called for key changes to be made to shifts.
British anaesthetist pleads for doctors and nurses to be allowed naps and limited night shifts, as in other critical workplaces