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 ...

Working the night shift isn’t just bad for sleep — it could be seriously bad for your health. A study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that working during the wee hours ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A few hundred overnight nurses with Norton Healthcare received some special care packages this weekend from a university whose mascot is a night owl. Fitting right? Each kit was ...

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 ...

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 ...