Effect of Shift Work Paradigms on Job Performance of Nurses in the Palestinian Health Sector

With the growing number of people in the world in general and in Palestine in particular, the need to provide medical services to them and work on the upgrade and improvement of these services has emerged, among the most important factors that guarantee the provision of these services with a high level is provided around the clock, and so responsible parties adopted the system of shift work. One of the main problems faced by shift work system is suffering of workers in this sector of psychological, social and health problems, in addition to the occurrence of medical errors and their exposure to accidents while doing their job. In this study problems caused by working in shifts for nurses working in Palestinian public and private hospitals were highlighted, in addition to the discussion of the criteria nurses working in shifts system are selected accordingly, the study also addresses sleep problems and insomnia caused by working in shifts, part of the study has been allocated to look at the factors that control the size of work pressure between the different shifts, the final part of the study, discusses employee satisfaction financially and morally. The results show the suffering of nurses working shifts of health problems that may be chronic diseases or exposure to successive healthy setbacks, psychological and social problems have emerged so much where they suffer from isolation and weakness in social relations, the results also showed a lack of standards nurses working in shifts are selected on the basis of and when the distribution shifts among them. During the study, the analysis of each of the previous problems conducted through a comparison between nurses working in shifts and nurses who work in one shift. As these problems have been analyzed according to several demographic variables such as age, sex and other.