Overview
Healthy and happy nurses are essential to ensuring optimal patient outcomes and organizational success. The evidence on the negative impacts of night shift on nurses' health and cognitive function, and their implications on patient outcomes and organizational costs, reflect the need for interventions to mitigate these detrimental outcomes.
This pilot, feasibility, clinical trial will examine the feasibility of two fatigue countermeasure interventions (access to napping/relaxation room and use of blue/green light blocking glass during night shift) and explore the interventions effects on nurses' health, missed care, and burnout.
Description
Aim 1 (Primary): Examine the feasibility of a larger study and hospital-wide implementation of two fatigue countermeasure interventions (access to napping/relaxation rooms and use of blue/green light blocking glass during night shift).
Aim 2 (Exploratory): Explore the effects of the interventions on melatonin levels, overall health, sleep, fatigue, cognitive function, missed care, nurse burnout, and salivary melatonin levels.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Being a registered nurse at UPMC Shadyside (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Working full-time night or rotating shifts
- Willing to wear a Fitbit around-the-clock during the study
- Willing to use nap/relaxation room and glasses only when assigned to that condition
- Willing to provide saliva samples
Exclusion Criteria:
- Having a diagnosed sleep disorder (e.g., obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, or shift work disorder)
- Currently being treated for a serious mental illness
- Needing to use eye glasses to complete work related activities (note: contact lenses are acceptable)
- Use of prescription or over-the-counter sleep aides including melatonin