Nurses’ Short-Term Sickness Absences Before and After the Implementation of a Brief Napping Opportunity During Night Shifts
| العنوان: | Nurses’ Short-Term Sickness Absences Before and After the Implementation of a Brief Napping Opportunity During Night Shifts |
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| المؤلفون: | Knar Sagherian, Debra Derickson, Jeanne Geiger-Brown, Cary M. Springer, Janice J. Mason, Pamela S. Hinds |
| المصدر: | Workplace Health & Safety. :216507992211471 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Nursing (miscellaneous), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
| الوصف: | Background Nurses who work at night have used naps to alleviate their sleepiness and fatigue. Research has shown night shifts, sleepiness, and fatigue predict nurses’ missed workdays. Thus, nighttime napping may have a beneficial consequence of reducing nurses’ sickness absences. The purpose of this brief report was to describe the difference in rates of short-term sickness absence before and after implementation of a 30-min nap opportunity in one U.S. hospital for 12-hr shift nurses. Methods The study was a retrospective pre–post evaluation design. Eight units provided nap opportunities for the nurses. Full-time nurses were classified into night and rotating shifts based on their 2 years of scheduling patterns. Absence data were extracted from the hospital’s timekeeping system and annual absence rates were computed. A single linear mixed model with rank transformed data was conducted for each group. Median estimates, minimum and maximum, and p-values were reported. Findings The median absence rates for night shift nurses were 4.3% and 4.0% for the pre-napping and post-napping implementation periods, respectively; however, this difference was not statistically significant ( p = .241). The median absence rates for rotating shift nurses were 2.0% and 3.9% for the pre-napping and post-napping implementation periods, respectively; and the difference increase was statistically significant ( p < .001). Conclusion/Application to practice A nap policy which provides nurses with the opportunity to take nighttime naps did not benefit their sickness absence rates. Future research needs to examine the actual napping process on sickness absences, as well as explore other sickness management avenues. |
| تدمد: | 2165-0969 2165-0799 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/21650799221147177 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::82c653dd9d3e840df549521098f1c42d https://doi.org/10.1177/21650799221147177 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........82c653dd9d3e840df549521098f1c42d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21650969 21650799 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/21650799221147177 |