Development and evaluation of a matrix for assessing fatigue-related risk, derived from a national survey of nurses' work patterns

Fatigue and the Female Nurse: A Narrative Review of the Current State of Research and Future Directions

“…These statistics are especially alarming considering that such errors are largely preventable given that they have been empirically linked, at least in part, to the workers' fatigue. 16,[27][28][29][30] Indeed, the fatigue-impaired health care worker plays a significant contribution with regard to negative patient outcomes, 31 which includes poor quality of care 31,32 and increased adverse events such as medication errors due to reduced vigilance and attentional lapses. 27,[32][33][34] Fatigue is also detrimental to the nurses themselves, 30,35 which helps explain why nurses experience among the highest nonfatal workplace injury rates of any major job sector.…”

“…Objectivity is a desirable feature because survey answers can be manipulated to make one look less fatigued, such as in the event there were a perceived benefit to showing lower fatigue and better readiness for duty (e.g., more hours, shifts or overtime = higher compensation, or perhaps could result in more days off in a row). While the use of subjective fatigue assessments can be helpful, 31 it is herein recommended that these traditional subjective assessments are supplemented with more objective measures of fatigue, including the ones described here, to better inform important determinations of nurses' readiness for duty regarding their fatigue and functional performance status. Strategically incorporating these fatiguetracking instruments and measures offers promising potential to help organizations and individuals better manage both the occurrences of, and most importantly, the consequences of fatigue in the health care setting.…”

Multivariate Analysis on The Determinants of Work Fatigue Factors for Nurses Inpatient Care at RSUD Arifin Achmad Hospital Pekanbaru

“…According to the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration in based on data on work accidents recorded in Indonesia every day an average of 414 occupational accidents is 22.7% due to fatigue that is quite high. Where the determinants of work fatigue vary from factors of work environment that are inadequate to work (noise, lighting and temperature), rest periods and disproportionate working hours can increase the degree of work discharge, the health of workers who are not monitored properly, giving Inadequate nutrition can result in work fatigue, workload on workers should be adjusted to the physical and psychological abilities of workers, travel time to and from work, mental development that takes place periodically and work shifts [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

“…Almost the same data can also be seen in a community survey in the UK which states that 25% of women and 20% of men complain that they always feel tired. Even though work fatigue is complained almost every day by workers in each work unit, but until 1990 work fatigue is still a mystery of the modern medical world which is full of obscurity in its causes [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

Shift work in nursing: closing the knowledge gaps and advancing innovation in practice

“…Focusing on the mediators between shift characteristics and outcomes for nurses and patients, research in this special issue has furthered our understanding around the impact of sleep disturbance on nurse turnover; using latent growth curve modelling, Han and colleagues showed that when newly qualified nurses experienced severe sleep disruption, they were more likely to leave their job within two years ( Han et al., 2020 ). Fatigue has also been explored as a mediator, and a matrix that predicts the likelihood of nurses reporting fatigue-related safety outcomes has been developed, and can be used to compare the impact of rosters both at work and outside work ( Gander et al., 2020 ). A comprehensive review of shift working nurses concluded that factors including control over shift patterns are crucial factors in achieving recovery from fatigue ( Gifkins et al., 2020 ).…”