Association of Sleep and Fatigue With Decision Regret Among Critical Care Nurses

• DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2014191
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01T08:12:41Z
• Authors: Linda D. Scott; Cynthia Arslanian...; Milo C. Engoren
• Keywords: Statistic

Background The effects of inadequate sleep on clinical decisions may be important for patients in critical care units, who are often more vulnerable than other units. Fatigued nurses likely well-rested to make faulty that lead decision regret, a negative cognitive emotion occurs when the actual outcome differs from desired or expected outcome. Objectives To examine association between selected variables, impairment due fatigue, and clinical-decision self-efficacy regret among nurses. Decision was primary variable. Methods A nonexperimental, descriptive design extant measures were used obtain data random sample full-time Binary logistic regression models regret. discrimination compared with C statistic, area under receiver operating characteristic curve. Results total 605 returned questionnaires (17% response rate). Among these, reported by 157 546 (29%). Nurses daytime sleepiness, less intershift recovery, worse quality did without Being male, working 12-hour shift, satisfaction significantly associated (C 0.719; SE, 0.024). Conclusion experience impairments loss sleep, inability recover shifts unimpaired report