Four ways you can stay awake while driving!

[Surg-OncRN]

4 Ways You Can Stay Awake While Driving — Nursing Life Back to Health

This is the link to a great article on 4 ways you can stay awake while driving. This article has great tips if you have worked an all-nighter or if you have a little jet-lag. If you find the information useful then share it with your friends and family. Also, what are your suggestions for ways to stay awake while driving? Hope you enjoy.

[Kitiger, RN]

I like that your very first tip is to get enough sleep!

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

PLEASE do not drive drowsy! The ONLY safe remedy is sleep. I teach a night shift adaptation class, and have published research in this area.

Pull over, take a nap.

Would you rather have the kids late to school or have mom/dad never come home again?

[macawake, MSN]

PLEASE do not drive drowsy! The ONLY safe remedy is sleep. I teach a night shift adaptation class, and have published research in this area.

Pull over, take a nap.

I concur. There is plenty of research available that indicates that driving while tired increases your risk of being involved in an accident. It's a danger all of us shift workers face and need to handle in a responsible manner. For our own safety as well as for the safety of others. I only skimmed the to following articles but they seem straightforward enough.

A Combined Field and Laboratory Design for Assessing the Impact of Night Shift Work on Police Officer Operational Performance

From the discussion section:

Degraded driving simulator performance and impaired vigilance have real-world implications for police officers operating motor vehicles. Despite declining motor vehicle fatality rates for the general public, rates for police officers have trended upward over the past 2 decades and account for more than one-third of all police fatalities. These on-duty collisions are most common between midnight and 08:00 and generally are not associated with emergency driving. This is worth noting because it highlights the elevated risks of driving home at the height of fatigue for police, medical personnel and other night-shift workers.

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Part of the result:

After six consecutive night shifts, residents experienced significantly impaired control of all the driving variables including speed, lane position, throttle, and steering. They were also more likely to be involved in collisions.

[macawake, MSN]

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