The Impact Of Shift Work On Nurses ' Job Stress

The impact of shift work on nurses’ job stress, sleep quality and self-perceived health (Article two):

In this article it was clearly described the current state of nurses’ shift work in Taiwan and how it interrupts nurses’ stress, sleep quality and self-perceived health status. The research study done on provision of 24-hour patient care, nurses need to work various shifts. Long-term shift work considerably have emotional impact nurses’ overall physical and mental health. department, position title, seniority, annual salary, continuing education plans, marital status, number of Demographic information collected included gender, age, level of education, affiliated children and family burden (the total number of people living in a household and the number of children under 18 years of age). The only learning I got from this article review is that job stress was similarly high among nurses whether they work in medical centers or district hospitals. Drawback of this study is its cross-sectional strategy. Longitudinal research that look at objective biological markers is required in order to assess the role of shift work in job stress, sleep quality and long-term health. Further research could scrutinize how innovative nursing hires (more staff) impacts alters in job stress, sleep quality and perceived health. Such research could serve as a reference to guide nursing placement in the future. While this study showed that nurses in and around district hospitals in Taiwan stated reasonable job stress, poor sleep quality and moderate levels of self-perceived health. However, there were no substantial variances in job stress, sleep quality or self-perceived health agreeing to demographic indicators or shift work status. In relations ...

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...ent, range and nature of evidence available around the impact of 12 hour nursing shift patterns?’ The main literature search was undertaken between October and November 2013 and expert advice about generating relevant search terms and suitable databases was sought from Library and Information Sciences Specialists. A search of the academic literature was undertaken in the electronic databases AMED, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Scopus, HMIC and the Cochrane Library. To ensure that the review of research in this field was as comprehensive as possible, no limits were put on the date by of included research but the review was limited to English language publication. This massive research paper gave me lot of information and understanding about nurses shift work. Below I have highlighted some of the interesting information that was gathered by (Arksey and O’Malley, 2005).