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Abstract
Fatigue is the awareness of a decreased capacity for physical and mental activity attributed to an imbalance in the availability, utilization, and/or restoration of the resources an individual needs to perform the activity. The effects of fatigue on human performance include: inability to concentrate, lapse of attention to details, decreased speed of mental processing, and short-term memory loss. In addition to decline in problem solving and decision making, perseveration on ineffective solutions, reduced vigilance, slowed reaction time and reduced psychomotor coordination, poor communication, and increased negativity, irritability and bad mood.
Despite the rise in interest of nursing fatigue over the last few years there has been little prospective research into its etiology. Nursing fatigue may result from combination of various factors; these could be categorized as individual’s factors such as age, gender, monthly income, and sleep duration/day, or could be work related factors as working schedule, rotating shift, physical and psychological factors; or both. The effects of nursing fatigue include but are not limited to poor performance, errors in clinical practice, stress, and prolonged fatigue may lead to burnout.
Nurses’ fatigue is consider an urgent problem affecting their retention and recruitment in the profession, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO)/Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) reported and provided clear recommendations for actions by governments, health-care systems, organizational administrations and nurses themselves to prevent and mitigate the causes of fatigue.