Taking stairs, packing healthy snacks, forgoing late-night caffeine, and other tips to ward off fatigue and remain alert when the sun goes down.
Laura Vater remembers sneaking into her home after 12-hour night shifts during medical training while her husband distracted their toddler. The stealthy tag-teaming effort helped her get enough undisturbed sleep before returning to an Indiana University hospital the following night to repeat the pattern.
deQuillfeldt doesn’t have young children at home, a noisy community, or other distractions to interrupt sleep during the day. But it was still difficult for her to sleep while the sun was out. “I used an eye mask and ear plugs but definitely woke up more often than I would at night.”“Without adequate sleep, your clinical thinking is not as sharp. When emergencies happen overnight, you’re often the first person to arrive and need to be able to make rapid, accurate assessments and decisions.
When he knows he’s starting night shifts, Apurva Popat, MD, said he tries to go to sleep an hour or so later nights before to avoid becoming sleep deprived. The chief resident of internal medicine at Marshfield Clinic Health System in Marshfield, Wisconsin, doesn’t recommend sleeping during the night shift.
“When you are sleep deprived, when you do not get enough sleep, you eat but you don’t feel full,” she said. “It’s hard to eat well on night shift. It’s harder if you go to the break room and there’s candy and junk food.”Vater said that, as a resident, she brought a lunch bag to the hospital during night shifts. “I never had time to prep food, so I’d bring a whole apple, a whole orange, a whole avocado or nuts. It allowed me to eat more fruits and vegetables than I normally would.
Vater said her hospital had a gym, but it wasn’t practical for her because it was further away from where she worked. “Sometimes my coresidents would be more creative, and we would do squats.”
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