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Identify desired training content for shift-working nurses to improve their sleep and fatigue.
A descriptive qualitative design.
We recruited night shift nurses (N = 23) to provide feedback during virtual focus groups/interviews. Data collection occurred in the U.S. between March and June 2024. Participants were presented with sleep and fatigue topics derived from the literature. Focus group/interview data were collected and transcribed. Data were analysed using a hybrid deductive-inductive manifest content analysis with an a priori coding schema based on topics shared during data collection. Data not fitting the schema, yet informing content, were analysed inductively.
Three themes aligned with literature-derived topics. Theme 1, Why We Sleep and Why Should Nurses Care, explains the importance of sleep to health. Theme 2, Sleep Practices for Nurses to Support Health and Social Relationships, describes healthy strategies to promote sleep for enhanced quality of life. Theme 3, Fatigue and Work, illustrates the significance of nurse sleep and fatigue risk mitigation to safe working conditions and patient care.
Study findings highlight night shift nurses' interest in gaining evidence-based information to promote their sleep. Sleep education and training could fill a knowledge and skills gap, not often offered in school or workplace.
Identifying themes relevant to nurses may help increase the development and availability of sleep education and training currently tailored for nurses.
Study findings describe content night shift nurses' desire for sleep and fatigue training, serving as an important first step in developing programmes most relevant to shift-working nurses. Our analysis found the findings largely align with key components workers should receive in sleep education and training and reinforced the need for employers to offer such training. This study could benefit the nursing workforce and employers who expect rested, high-functioning nurses to care for patients.
Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research.
No patient or public contribution.
Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT06105307
Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) is a major public health consequence of the opioid epidemic. Long-term health outcomes associated with POE remain unclear, especially for children with POE without a diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Here, we aimed to describe the health outcomes of children with POE and with POE and NAS compared to unexposed children during the first 7 years of life.
In this retrospective observational cohort study, children born between 2015 and 2022 were identified from the Maternal and Infant Data Hub (MIDH), a data repository that continuously integrates maternal, neonatal, and pediatric records from two academic medical centers and one pediatric hospital system in the Midwest, USA.
International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10 CM) chapters A00-N99 served as outcomes of interest. Annual incidence and crude incidence rate ratios were calculated to explore descriptive differences between the exposed and unexposed groups.
The study included 22,002 children, 20,130 (91.5%) of whom were unexposed and 1872 (8.5%) were exposed. Of the 1872 exposed children, 371 (19.8%) received a diagnosis of NAS (POE + NAS) and 1501 were in the POE-NAS group. Across all 7 years, exposed children had a higher incidence of diagnoses in most ICD-10 CM chapters compared to unexposed children. A consistently higher incidence rate ratio of diagnosis was observed in both POE-NAS and POE + NAS groups (vs. unexposed) related to mental and behavioral disorders, eye diagnoses, and diseases of the musculoskeletal system and gastrointestinal systems.
POE is associated with an increased risk of diagnoses in a number of ICD-10 CM chapters throughout childhood. These findings underscore the need for early screening and targeted interventions to support exposed children and improve their well-being. Further research is required to explore underlying mechanisms and develop preventive measures for at-risk populations.
Understanding the conditions more often diagnosed in children with prenatal opioid exposure will help to improve care provided to this population. As a result of study findings, nurses who provide care to children with prenatal opioid exposure can prioritize their assessments and allocate time, resources, and education toward areas more likely to be affected.
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