Nurses' Short-Term Sickness Absences Before and After the Implementation of a Brief Napping Opportunity During Night Shifts.

Background: Nurses who work at night have used naps to alleviate their sleepiness and fatigue. Research has shown night shifts, sleepiness, and fatigue predict nurses' missed workdays. Thus, nighttime napping may have a beneficial consequence of reducing nurses' sickness absences.

Bio-mathematical fatigue models predict sickness absence in hospital nurses: An 18 months retrospective cohort study.

This study examined the associations between bio-mathematical fatigue-risk scores and sickness absence (SA) in hospital nurses over 18 months. Work schedules and SA data were extracted from the hospital's attendance system. Fatigue-risk scores were generated for work days using the Fatigue Audit InterDyne (FAID) and Fatigue Risk Index (FRI).

Acute fatigue predicts sickness absence in the workplace: A 1-year retrospective cohort study in paediatric nurses.

Aims: To examine the relationship between fatigue and sickness absence in nurses from a paediatric hospital over 12 months of follow-up. A secondary aim was to identify other work and personal factors that predict sickness absence.

Background: Sickness absence is often related to worker-fatigue, yet few studies have explored this relationship in nurses despite documented high fatigue levels.