Assignment task:
Lori is a new nurse who completed orientation 2 weeks ago. Her current schedule is two 12-hour and two 8-hour midnight shifts each week. Her 8-hour shifts are on Thursday and Friday and the 12-hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday. As she arrives for her last shift on Sunday, she is faced with having to take extra patients since two nurses are out with the flu. By the end of her shift on Monday morning, three day-shift nurses have also called in sick, and she is next in line for a mandatory overtime shift. She is already tired and now worries that she will make a mistake. Lori complains to the charge nurse, who tells her that there is nothing she can do.
Google "The Joint Commission's (JCAHO) 2024 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)" website and select the link for "Hospitals" and review the easy to read version of the goals applied to the Hospital. Discuss EACH of the 12 safety goals. Use the sub-categories under the seven broad categories to find all 12.
And then, how they might be negatively affected by Lori's lack of sleep.