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Running Head: HOW MANY HOURS SHOULD A NURSE WORK IN ONE SHIFT? 2
Neyleen Calejo
Kathryn Essig
English Composition 1
October 13, 2019
Topic: How many hours should a Nurse work in one shift?
Thesis Statement: Nurses working long day shifts are just as taxing as night shifts scheduled 3 days week It affects their mental health and overall well-being.
Working hours for nurses have become a debatable issue with questions on the most preferred number of hours per shift. Generally, nurses tend to work for more or fewer hours, depending on the projected demand for care within a given health facility. In essence, being a nurse tends to be extremely tedious, considering the complexity of the activities that they engage in every day. In addition, they are expected to be careful and responsible for their actions; meaning, nurses need to be cautious and make sure they deviate from possible errors. However, effectiveness in this cannot be achieved if they are subjected to long working hours in a single shift. If this is done whether, during the day or night, detrimental outcomes happen unwillingly. Thus, nurses working long day shifts are just as taxing as night shifts three days a week. It affects their mental health, overall well-being, and puts patient`s health at risk.
In addition, nurses who work for long hours in a single shift increase the tendency of patient medical malpractice and overall patient dissatisfaction. These errors due to over working nurses affects them mentally and emotinally. Articulately patient dissatisfaction is denoted from how they perceive the quality of care given to them by nurses. In most cases working for long hours renders nurses to be fatigued, which increases the possibility of injury risk or compromised care towards patients. According to a study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System, details revealed that working a 12-hour shift was directly related to the risk of making errors when attending to patients (Brent, 2017). Most nurses experience trouble staying active due to deprived sleep and general body tire deeming them unable to take care of patients effectively. As a result, the patients` safety is put at risk, which, lowers better patient outcomes. Patients` who receive care for such nurses may cite dissatisfaction emanating from one reason or another. When nurses work for lesser hours, it helps them to be mindful when taking care of patients since their bodies are able to get enough rest. Assertively, considering fewer working hours alienates the possibility of patients having encounters with dissatisfaction comprehensively.