PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Michael Farquhar TI - Fifteen-minute consultation on problems in the healthy paediatrician: managing the effects of shift work on your health AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312119 DP - 2016 Dec 16 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - edpract-2016-312119 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2016/12/16/archdischild-2016-312119.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2016/12/16/archdischild-2016-312119.full AB - Sleep is fundamental to good health. Healthcare professionals receive little teaching on the importance of sleep, particularly with respect to their own health when working night shifts. Knowledge of basic sleep physiology, together with simple strategies to improve core sleep and the ability to cope with working nights, can result in significant improvements both for healthcare professionals and for the patients they care for. “You're not healthy unless your sleep is healthy”Professor William Dement, Stanford University, one of the founders of modern sleep medicine