Re: Fatigue in Medicare Care = Errors

"Bettina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Bettina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > While physicians seem to thin 36-hour shifts are just fine for them,
a
> > > > national report shows the obvious:  when nurses work over 12 hours,
> >  errors
> > > > increase sharply.
> > > >
> > > >  To reduce "error-producing fatigue," the report said, state
officials
> > > > should prohibit nurses from working more than 12 hours in any
24-hour
> >  period
> > > > or more than 60 hours a week.
> > > >
> > > > The article goes on to say:
> > > >  But Dr. William C. Rupp, a member of the panel who is president of
a
> >  Mayo
> > > > Health System hospital in Mankato, Minn., said, "Virtually every
other
> > > > industry in the country pays more attention to fatigue than we do."
> > > >
> > > > Pamela Thompson, chief executive of the American Organization of
Nurse
> > > > Executives, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, said
it
> >  was
> > > > "an accepted practice" for nurses to work 12-hour shifts.
> > > >
> > > >  Ada Sue Hinshaw, a panel member who is dean of the School of
Nursing at
> >  the
> > > > University of Michigan, said: "The fatigue effects are the same.
Medical
> > > > errors start climbing after 12 hours of work."
> > > >
> > > >    And now we don't we see that medical residents make errors too
when
> >  they
> > > > get tired, and stop the fraternity hazing traditions of staying up
all
> > > > night?
> > >
> > >
> > > Nobody should work overtime if they are fatigued, but what about the
> > > many nurses who want to work overtime because they get time and a half
> > > or double time?
> > >
> > > Bettina
> >
> >   That does not mean they are not tired and therefore make errors.
>
>
> So Herman, you believe that there should be regulations and
> legislation that makes it impossible for nurses who want to work
> overtime to do so?
> Bettina

  Truck drivers have to keep logs and stop work before they become a threat
to others due to fatigue.  It is amazing that those in the
military-industrial complex have messiah complex which state they don't get
tired and kill people, just like truck drivers do.