title: Health Care Worker Fatigue.
abstract: The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System is a confidential, statewide Internet reporting system to which all Pennsylvania hospitals, outpatient-surgery facilities, birthing centers, and abortion facilities must file information on incidents and serious events.Safety Monitor is a column from Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority, the authority that informs nurses on issues that can affect patient safety and presents strategies they can easily integrate into practice. For more information on the authority, visit www.patientsafetyauthority.org. For the original article discussed in this column or for other articles on patient safety, click on "Patient Safety Advisories" and then "Advisory Library" in the left-hand navigation menu.
authors.affiliation: Lea Anne Gardner is a senior patient safety analyst and Deborah Dubeck is a patient safety analyst, both at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority in Harrisburg, PA. This article is adapted from "Healthcare Worker Fatigue: Current Strategies for Prevention," which appeared in a publication of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority: Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory 2014;11(2):53-60. Contact author: Lea Anne Gardner, . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Lea Anne
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dubeck
mesh_terms: D005221:Fatigue / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D061214:Patient Safety; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior