Association between sleep quality and nurse productivity among Korean clinical nurses

Abstract

Nurse leaders and executives should consider measures to improve nurses' sleep quality and enhance nurse productivity. Steps that need to be considered include longer intervals between shift-work cycles, clockwise scheduling order, a longer break time after night shift work, allowing nurses to nap before / during a night shift, and providing a worksite healthy sleep programme.

Psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery Scale in a nurse population

“…This might have affected the low reliability of the PSQI scale in our study. In a study with Korean nurses, the PSQI Cronbach's alpha was relatively lower than in other populations but still in an acceptable range at 0.73 (Park et al, ). In the study by Park et al (), about 27% of nurses did not work rotating shifts and about 30% did not work night shifts.…”

“…In a study with Korean nurses, the PSQI Cronbach's alpha was relatively lower than in other populations but still in an acceptable range at 0.73 (Park et al, ). In the study by Park et al (), about 27% of nurses did not work rotating shifts and about 30% did not work night shifts. All of our study participants, however, worked rotating shifts including night shifts, which may have contributed to the relatively lower Cronbach's alpha of the PSQI in our study.…”

“…The computed global PSQI scores showed a sensitivity of 94.3% and a specificity of 84.4% to differentiate between good and poor sleepers using the best cutoff point of 8.5 (Sohn et al, ). Cronbach's alpha was 0.83 for the original scale (Buysse et al, ), 0.84 for the Korean version (Sohn et al, ), and 0.73 for Korean nurses (Park, Lee, & Park, ). In this study, it was 0.67.…”

Job burnout and quality of working life among Chinese nurses: A cross‐sectional study

“…Hospital and nursing managers should develop strategies to reduce nurses' job burnout and improve their QoWL in the current clinical settings. More favourable hospitable work environment include (a) increase nursing personnel and optimum nurse staffing to achieve the highest quality of patient care (Li et al, ; Park, Lee, & Park, ); (b) provide old nurses with shorter shift work or equip napping space for nurses (Chen et al, ); (c) offer reasonable pecuniary compensation, which is related to nurses work experience, night shifts and job value (Nowrouzi et al, ); (d) establish an appropriate shift work schedule with less evening shifts during a week and longer breaks for night shift nurses (de Cordova et al, ); and (e) develop job burnout intervention programmes for hospital nurses, such as mindfulness‐based programmes. Mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) has been widely known and conducted in clinical populations (Kabat‐Zinn, ).…”

Using the Analytic Network Process Method for Prioritizing and Weighing Shift Work Disorders Among the Personnel of Hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences

“…Since they work in irregular shifts, their physiological, psychological, personal, and social life may be negatively influenced, a hazard, which may have consequences on nurses’ performance and efficiency [24]. These consequences may directly affect patients who are the major recipients of services provided by nurses [15].…”