RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fifteen-minute consultation on problems in the healthy paediatrician: managing the effects of shift work on your health
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP edpract-2016-312119
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312119
A1 Michael Farquhar
YR 2016
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2016/12/16/archdischild-2016-312119.abstract
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