Emergent Human Performance Library
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Sleep Loss and Performance in Health Care
The job demands of healthcare often prevent workers from getting the good, restful nights’ sleep they need. Although many workers want to ignore the impacts of this sleep loss, ultimately lack of sleep can result in detrimental effects on the overall healthcare system. In order to provide effective mitigations for these impacts, your organization must understand how sleep loss impacts human performance.
Stress Impacts on Performance
People who are fatigued are more likely to make errors, fail to notice errors, and fail to correct those errors. With the nature of 24-hour care and unpredictable workload, reducing fatigue risk is critical for healthcare organizations. Learn how Emergent’s fatigue scientists can help you develop a fatigue management plan, key fatigue indicators, and effective fatigue risk management initiatives.
Fatigue and Performance
People who are fatigued are more likely to make errors, fail to notice errors, and fail to correct those errors. With the nature of 24-hour care and unpredictable workload, reducing fatigue risk is critical for healthcare organizations. Learn how Emergent’s fatigue scientists can help you develop a fatigue management plan, key fatigue indicators, and effective fatigue risk management initiatives.
Crew Resource Management for Healthcare
Crew Resource Management provides a defined framework for addressing the underlying causes of communication problems and managing the consequences of these problems. Healthcare CRM team training involves defining the team, understanding basic human factors, and applying the knowledge to case studies and eventually the workplace.