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I had taken Jean-Sélim to the airport with my son two days before he died at work, on duty – a duty that could have continued for much longer.
72.9% of the physicians work on duty (12 or 24 h shifts) and 18.1% work on a daily basis.
These reported health system incidents, which include taking sick leave when not sick and paying less attention to nursing work on duty, are serious.
In the bivariate analysis, moonlighting nurses were significantly more likely than non-moonlighters to take sick leave when not sick (p=0.011) and to pay less attention to nursing work on duty (p=0.035).
Of all participants, 51.5% reported feeling too tired to work, 11.5% paid less attention to nursing work on duty, and 10.9% took sick leave when not actually sick in the preceding year.
In the cross-sectional survey of 3,784 participants, 40.7% of nurses reported moonlighting or working for an agency in the year preceding the survey, 51.5% of all participants reported feeling too tired to work, 11.5% paid less attention to nursing work on duty, while 10.9% took sick leave when not actually sick in the preceding year (15).
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Postmen didn't go to work, they went "on duty".
According to a community news site, Servin, as of last month, was still working on duty with the Chicago Police Department while the investigation into his actions continues.
All participants were asked to indicate whether they had felt too tired to work while on duty; paid less attention to nursing work while on duty; taken sick leave when not sick; stayed away from work without authority to do so; or been involved in a medico-legal incident, for example administration of the wrong medication or a patient death (type 1 indicators).
In terms of geographical location and relative to Gauteng, those participants from the Western Cape were significantly less likely to report that they stayed away from work without authority (OR: 0.54; 95% CI: 0.40 0.75); felt too tired to work while on duty (OR: 0.65; 95% CI: 0.49 0.85); or paid less attention to nursing work while on duty (OR: 0.67; 95% CI: 0.52 0.85).
In the study, 51.5% of all participants said that they felt too tired to work while on duty, 11.5% paid less attention to nursing work while on duty, 10.9% had taken sick leave when not actually sick, 5.6% had stayed away from work without authority, and 2.9% reported being involved in a medico-legal incident (Table 1).
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