Sarah Jeffries shares 3 sleep tips to a more healthy night shift. Staying up late could affect both our physical and mental well being but sometimes this is unavoidable because our work is night shift. With these 3 tips you will have better days and sleep when you work on graveyard shift.
Chapters: 0:00 3 Tips to a Healthy Night Shift 0:43 Make Sleep a Top Priority 1:18 Communicate 1:50 Exercise
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Did you know that staying up late can affect your physical, emotional and mental well-being?
There are immediate and long-term effects to consider when you stay up through the night.
However, that's unavoidable because some people work night shift, or they have deadlines,
or they're studying for exams, which means they can't avoid it completely.
So in this video, I'm going to give you three tips that you can do right now
to get a better day's sleep when you work in night shift.
My name is Sarah Jeffries. I'm a registered nurse with the Masters of Science in Nursing,
and I have experience in ER, education and sleep therapy.
And I've done my fair share of night shifts in the ER, and it's really tough.
Night shift is notoriously difficult,
but there are ways to lessen the toll it takes on your mental well-being.
First, you have to make sleep a top priority.
Even though the link between sleep and mental health may seem obvious,
the importance of getting enough sleep cannot be overstated.
The CDC reports that getting less than the recommended seven hours of sleep at night
is associated with so many health problems like heart disease, cancer, stroke and depression.
And since sleep is essential for a healthy mind and body,
if you feel like you're running on fumes,
it might be because sleep is contributing to all of those feelings of negativity
and just feeling like you're just completely exhausted.
You're not getting the good enough quality and quantity amount of sleep that you need.
As a second step, you need to communicate your expectations to your loved ones.
Don't be afraid to tell your friends and family about your sleep and work schedule.
You have to hold your family accountable and let them know that your sleep is really important
and you need to get good sleep and this is your sleep schedule.
I remember when I did night shift when I lived at home still,
everybody knew my sleep schedule, so they were really careful about, you know,
waking me up, so keeping the noise down.
This video is for educational purposes only and not a replacement for medical advice or treatment.
Another step to help you sleep better while you do a night shift
is to get regular exercise and get that into your schedule.
Exercising has a positive effect on your mental well-being.
Even a quick 15 minutes can make a huge bit of difference.
So try finding the right time that works for you and your sleeping pattern,
whether you like to exercise in the morning, after work or before you go to sleep
or whether you like to exercise right before work,
when you wake up in the evening before you're going to go to work.
So try and find what works for you and see if it helps.
The research back to benefits of exercising every day on sleep is just amazing.
If you want to know why you feel tired between one and four,
click here where I tell you exactly why.
