Nurses’ workload associated with 16‐h night shifts on the 2‐shift system. I: Comparison with the 3‐shift system
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 53 (2) , 219-221
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00544.x
Abstract
To assess nurses’ workload with 16-h night shifts on a 2-shift system, we investigated the differences between workloads with each shift on the 2- and 3-shift systems with questionnaires on subjective symptoms and measuring heart rate and physical activity. It was found that the 2-shift nurses during the 16-h night shifts complained of fatigue less frequently and showed general decreases in heart rate and physical activity compared with the 3-shift nurses during 8-h evening and night shifts. The results suggest that a 2-h nap, an increase of staff, and a day off may reduce the nurses’ workload when they have 16-h night shifts.Keywords
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