Gilbert Has Been on the Day Shift for Five Years

question 603

Multiple Choice

Gilbert has been on the day shift for five years. He will be working on the night shift in three weeks. Which of the following would be the BEST advice to help Gilbert deal with this change?

• A)Take over-the-counter stimulants for the first month or so.
• B)Use over-the-counter sleeping pills to help go to sleep during the day.
• C)Take three naps rather than sleep a full eight hours during the day.
• D)Begin now to gradually preadapt sleep-waking time to match the upcoming new shift.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a data set when the values are arranged in ascending or descending order.

Squared Deviation

Squared deviation refers to the squared differences between each data point in a dataset and the mean of that dataset.

Mathematical Average

Also known as the mean; a measure of central tendency calculated by adding all the numbers in a data set and dividing by the count of those numbers.

Mode

The value that is most prevalent in a dataset.