Sleep

[Loren Pechtel]

(Couldn't decide for certain if this belongs here or in science.)

‘I was exhausted’: Boston nurse drives off top floor of hospital garage after shift

Nursing professionals called it a dramatic example of what can go wrong when healthcare workers don’t get enough sleep.

www.yahoo.com

Transportation has had enough bad incidents from sleep deprivation that the government stepped in and created rules. Why has this not been applied to the medical world? Any industry dealing with stuff that can go badly wrong if mishandled (and the medical world is absolutely full of such stuff) should have similar rules.

 

[barbos]

Humans need to have regular and good sleep about 8 hours a night. Otherwise all kind of problems including dementia later in life
And women apparently are much worse health wise at working night shifts.

 

[BH]

My mom was a hospital lab technician and the hospital administration would run them ragged like that poor nurse was. Like Mr. Pechtel said being too tired to work but forced too is a recipe for disaster.