Monday, August 2, 2010

Get Long Sleep on Week Ends, Get Brain Boost

Everyday, your clock alarms early to practically saying to get off bed, get ready yourself and the Dickies uniforms, eat enough breakfast, and drive to the hospital to start another long tiring day. When the duty calls for overtime, you may need to extend up until the wee hours. With just barely 3 or 4 hours, you again have to wake up early to repeat what happened the day before. At the end of the extremely toxic week, you’re all too overwhelmed, and yet ready to stay up and party over the weekend.

The responsibility at work cannot be simply dismissed. So many of our nurses and doctors, spend the entire week taking care of patients. But stay up even on weekends is basically depriving oneself from what is most necessary in order to have the mind fully prepared for the coming week. Such is according to a study published in the Journal Sleep.

Scientists who conducted the study found that an extra dose of sleep in more than just luxury, but boosts essential brain power ahead of the working week. A single, long sleep can replenish the brain with the necessary energy to bring back alertness and better attention span. Subsequently, a person who doesn’t treat himself or herself with long line-in during the weekend could experience impairment with performance.

Depending on how much sleep a person gets during the weekdays, the length of sleep in the weekends may require 10 hours or more.