Sleep plays a critical role in overall health, well‐being, and daytime functioning. Provision of 24‐hour care means that nurses undertake shift work and therefore have been found to commonly not get the recommended amount of sleep, resulting in sleep deprivation. Research to date has focused on how sleep deprivation impacts their cognitive performance (e.g., reaction time, memory consolidation); however, less considered is how nurses’ sleep impacts on their ability to understand and provide emotional care to consumers. In this paper, we examine how sleep may influence nurses’ ability to empathize and provide compassionate care, both of which are fundamental aspects of their work. We begin by considering the unique challenges nurses face as shift workers and the impact of sleep on physical and psychological functioning. We examine how empathy and compassion drive nurses’ attempts to understand consumers’ perspectives and experiences and motivate them to want to help those in their care. Work directly investigating the relationship between sleep and these processes indicates emotional recognition and experience are hampered by poor sleep, with greater compassion towards oneself or from others associated with better sleep. Much of this work has, however, been conducted outside of the nursing or health professional space. We discuss issues that need to be addressed in order to move understanding forward regarding how sleep impacts on mental health nurses’ empathy and compassion, as well as how an understanding of the sleep–empathy/compassion link should be an important priority for nurse education and well‐being.

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考虑精神保健护士的睡眠，同情和同情之间的关系：现在是时候了。

睡眠在整体健康，福祉和白天运行中起着至关重要的作用。提供24小时护理意味着护士从事轮班工作，因此被发现通常无法获得建议的睡眠量，从而导致睡眠不足。迄今为止，研究集中在睡眠剥夺如何影响他们的认知能力（例如反应时间，记忆巩固）上。然而，较少考虑的是护士的睡眠对他们理解和向消费者提供情感护理的能力的影响。在本文中，我们研究了睡眠如何影响护士的移情能力和提供同情的护理，这两者都是他们工作的基本方面。我们首先考虑护士在轮班工作中面临的独特挑战以及睡眠对身体和心理功能的影响。我们研究了同理心和同情心如何驱动护士尝试理解消费者的观点和经验，并激发他们想要帮助他们护理的人。直接调查睡眠与这些过程之间关系的工作表明，不良的睡眠阻碍了人们的情感认知和经验，对自己或与更好的睡眠相关的他人抱有更大的同情心。但是，大部分工作是在护理或卫生专业领域之外进行的。我们讨论需要解决的问题，以便进一步理解睡眠对心理健康护士的同理心和同情心的影响，以及对睡眠-同理心/同情心联系的理解应如何成为护士教育和培训的重要重点。福利。