Workplace aggression as cause and effect: Emergency nurses ’ experiences of working fatigued

Fatigue has the potential to affect nurses ’ ability to provide safe and effective patient care as well as their health and quality of life outside of work. Nurses must be attentive enough not only to recognize their own potential for making errors, but also to identify and mitigate the errors of others (Dean et al., 2006). Research findin gs connect some of the world’s worst disasters with fatigue: both the Chernobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe and the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster were linked to human error due to fatigue and sleepiness (Mitler et al., 1988).
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research