"Hospitals should be motivated more than ever to commit resources and attention to patient safety...the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminated or reduced payments...as preventable adverse events that should never occur in health care (CMS,2007)" (Thornlow,Merwin, 2009,p.263). Hospitals with the best outcomes, will be rewarded for their performance and hospitals with not-so-good outcomes will either receive no compensation or very little. Nurses play a vital role in the patients' stay at the hospital. Nurses interact with the patient everyday, and can immediately tell when the patient's health starts to decline. This means that nurses have to always be on their A-game. Unfortunately, with the hours and days that nurses work, and amount of patients nurses have a day, it can be quite difficult. One Sentinel Event that The Joint Commission published in 2011 was "Health care worker fatigue and patient safety." Fatigue can result from "an inadequate amount of sleep or insufficient quality of sleep over an extended period can lead to a number of problems." (The Joint Commission (TJC), 2011, p.1) One of the "problems" associated with fatigue was "slowed or faulty information processing and judgement" (TJC, 2011, p.1). This is dangerous to patients because it could lead to near misses, and medical errors that can be avoided. Every second counts in healthcare and if the healthcare team is impaired, the wrong decisions can be made. The Joint Commission states some actions that can be done to help keep nurses and doctors awake during their shift (i.e.: stretching exercises, taking short naps, smart caffeine consumption etc.) (TJC, 2011, p.2). The healthcare team also needs to make sure they are getting enough rest/sleep at home as well. TJC also states some ways for the staff to get a better nights/days rest as well. It is easier