Errors are known to spike during late night hours, but guidance from managers can help nurses adjust to the night shift. Healthcare is a 24/7 business and, while shift work is a necessity, working the ...

Editor's note: Please consider taking our poll, Nurses: Do You Nap on the Night Shift? Just a year ago, on August 2, 2015, at 8:00 in the morning, a nurse from Johns Hopkins University, driving home ...

Light intervention also results in better sleep quality after their shifts, nurses report. Nurses who received 40 minutes of bright light exposure prior to their night shifts experienced less fatigue ...

Quick Thinking Night Shift Nurse Magically Saves Baby Bird Who Fell Out of the Nest originally appeared on PetHelpful. Healthcare workers dedicate thousands of hours of their own time for the benefit ...

The responsibilities are the same — but there are still new challenges. Working the night shift as a nurse can require considerable adjustments if your career has thus far been limited to daytime ...

Typical workers must worry that drinking too much coffee will keep them awake at night. But night-shift nurses are up all night anyhow. Does that make coffee the night-shift nurse's best friend? Like ...

Working the night shift is hard. It will be especially onerous this Sunday when daylight saving time ends — the very same evening the rest of us will be getting an extra hour of sleep. WGU Indiana ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ)— Nurses who work the night shift report more sleep disturbances and are more likely to suffer from psychological and physical health symptoms including PTSD, insomnia and ...

Nurses who work the night shift are more likely to have poor sleep habits, a practice that can increase the likelihood of committing serious errors that can put the safety of themselves as well as ...

Hartford, Ky.-based Ohio County Hospital has saved more than $40,000 a year by converting all of their nurses to salaried positions. The change came about during COVID, when 50% of night shift nurses ...

As this study and previous studies have shown, napping can reduce fatigue on the night shift. [2] Although not universally beneficial, some nurses find napping enormously helpful. So then why have so ...