Open AccessWork shifts in Emergency Medicine
Author(s) -
Roberto Recupero,
Laura Nardi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2007.3.39
Subject(s) - medicine , attrition , work (physics) , shift work , specialty , medical emergency , emergency medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , dentistry
Emergency Medicine is known as a high stress specialty. The adverse effect of constantly rotating shifts is the single most important reason given for premature attrition from the field. In this work problems tied with night shift work will be taken into account and some solutions to reduce the impact of night work on the emergency physicians will be proposed