Citation

Smith MJ, Colligan MJ, Frockt IJ, Tasto DL. J. Saf. Res. 1979; 11(4): 181-187.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Differences in injury rates for nurse is on fix today, afternoon, and night shifts, and a rotating shifts were examined using occupational injury records taken from a six-month period for 1228 nurses located at 12 hospitals throughout the United States. Nurses on the rotating shift schedule had significantly more injuries than fixed shift nurses, who had approximately equal injury rates across the fixed shifts. Using OSHA definitions and 100 man-years of work as a base, rotating shift nurses had an injury incidence of 23.3 compared to 18.0 for night shift nurses, 16.84 day shift nurses, and 15.74 afternoon shift nurses. Injury rate was not found to be influenced by age, length of employment, or marital status.