http://traffic.libsyn.com/ajnbehindthearticle/BROWN.mp3AJN editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with lead author Jeanne Geiger-Brown about her article “Napping on the Night Shift: A Two-Hospital Implementation Project.”

Although napping is used to reduce sleepiness and fatigue in other safety-sensitive industries, it has not had widespread acceptance in nursing. AJN’s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks to lead author Jeanne Geiger-Brown about the results of a project conducted to assess the barriers to successful implementation of night-shift naps and to describe the nap experiences of night-shift nurses.