Fight Fatigue: A Nurse Manager's Guide to Reduce Risk and Revitalize Staff
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Earn 4 continuing education credits. Scroll down for details.
Fight Fatigue comes with one resource for the nurse manager and a set of 25 handbooks for staff!
According to the Institute of Medicine, being awake for 18 hours produces an impairment equal to a blood alcohol level of .05%, and being awake for 24 hours produces impairment equal to a level of .10%. Like alcohol, fatigue slows reaction time, saps energy, diminishes attention to detail, and degrades communication and decision-making skills—all things that hinder patient safety.
In a separate study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania concluded that overworked nurses are three times more likely to make serious mistakes, including:
- Medication errors—accounting for more than half of all mistakes
- Deviation from standard nursing practices
- Charting mistakes
- Errors in transcribing information
Your nurses are working harder than ever. Here’s a resource to help you, help them.
The workbook provides tips to keep your nurses sharp and energized so you can reduce risk by running a safe and efficient nursing unit. At the same time, it will help you provide the relief they need from their fast paced occupation and lives.
The companion 32-page, easy-to-tote handbooks are designed especially for frontline nurses across every discipline at any level. It features case studies and practical advice that helps nurses combat fatigue problems in the work place. But more than that, this handbook has tips and strategies to help nurses recognize and cope with non-job-related stressors that contribute to fatigue.
With Fight Fatigue you’ll find an assortment of proven tips, tools, and resources—take a look:
- Nursing unit survey
Handout this simple survey to your frontline staff to identify unit problems that may be sources of exhaustion - Staff fatigue self-assessment tool
Help your nurses recognize the non-job-related factors in their lives that may contribute to fatigue - Work environment fatigue assessment tool
Pinpoint the problems in your unit that are contributing to an overworked and tired staff, and implement rejuvenating solutions - A resource reference section
Keep a list at hand of resources and services within your hospital or community that can provide relief and reduce stress and fatigue - Case studies
Learn from real-life scenarios that illustrate how to deal with common situations that contribute to fatigue
Fatigue in the nursing unit is a pressing issue you can’t ignore.
Learning objectives for Fight Fatigue: A Training Handbook for Nurses:
- Define fatigue
- Identify safety-related risks associated with fatigue
- Describe how sleep disorders and sleep physiology contribute to fatigue
- State two physical factors that impact fatigue
- Identify the effects fatigue has on interpersonal communications
- List signs and symptoms of fatigue
- Identify tips for combating fatigue
Table of contents:
- What is fatigue?
- Safety-related risks
- Evidence-based data
- Who is most affected?
- Emergency workers
- Physical considerations
- Depression
- Social considerations
- Interpersonal communications
- Challenging work environments/co-workers
- Signs and symptoms of fatigue
- Tips for combating fatigue
- Bedtime rituals/Sleep hygiene
Earn 4 nursing contact hours
HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
This educational activity for 4 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.
About the Author
Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, is the owner of Avillion’s Curriculum Design in York, PA, and specializes in designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals and freelance medical writing. She is the editor of the monthly journal Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development, and is a frequent presenter at NNSDO and various conferences and conventions devoted to continuing education and staff development.
Faculty Disclosure Statement
HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters, planners, contributors, or their partners/spouses have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.
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