Nurses Need Sleep Too


Nursing professor and study author Alison Trinkoff explained, “Alertness and vigilance required for providing good nursing care depend upon having an adequate duration of quality sleep and rest, and long work hours can impact the quality of nursing care and can increase the potential for error.”
The same holds for pilots required work 16 hour days and truck drivers pulling loads on short rest. Unfortunately, too many employers either try to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of their employees, putting the public at risk.
Our recommendation? Find out the nurse to patient ratio in your hospital before you get admitted. Also, if you can. Have someone stay with you to make sure you get the care you need. You can always talk to us at Lundy Law if you or a loved one have been provided with inadequate care.