Title: Formation factors and countermeasures of sleep disorders in ICU nurses
Abstract:
Due to the particularity of hospital environment and medical work, nurses are often required to work 24 hours in shifts to ensure the continuous high-quality nursing and treatment work. In this environment, clinical nurses are often prone to decreased sleep quality, shortened sleep time and/or excessive sleepiness due to the conflict between work and circadian rhythm system. Sleep disorders even occur, thus affecting the quality of care, and the occurrence of sleep disorders will affect the physical and mental health and safety of nurses to varying degrees, including dizziness, headache, fatigue and sleepiness, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and will also promote the increase of individual anxiety, depression and other negative emotions, at the same time, Sleep disorders also increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure. Among them, due to the particularity of ICU nursing work, the occurrence of sleep disorders is more obvious in the group of nurses, so the sleep problems of ICU nurses should be paid attention to by the nurse group and relevant managers. This paper summarized the factors and hazards of sleep disorders in ICU nurses and related intervention measures, in order to provide reference for improving the sleep quality of clinical shift nurses and nursing managers' management of clinical nurses.
Audience Take Away Notes:
• To review the effect of shift work on sleep quality in ICU nurses
• Suggestions were made for improving the sleep status of clinical shift nurses at individual and institutional levels
• Encourage ICU nurses to improve their personal sleep quality by adopting healthier living and sleeping habits
• Managers can further explore more scientific and feasible scheduling plans according to the influence of nursing staff's sleep conditions through this study
