Nurses exposed to 40 minutes of bright light before their night shift begins feel less fatigued and make fewer errors at work, according to a new study. The nurses also sleep better when their shift is over.
“Health care workers are experiencing high levels of fatigue due to staffing shortages, difficult schedules, and heavy workloads. Further, the cost of medical errors has been estimated at tens of billions of dollars per year in North America,” says Jay Olson, senior author of the recent study in Sleep Health, who received his doctorate at McGill University and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto….