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 ...

Nurses often work long hours, and the attendant stress and lack of sleep can impede collaboration with other nurses and physicians and threaten patient safety. Twelve-hour shifts allow nurses to work ...

Shift work is a cornerstone of nursing in facilities requiring twenty-four-hour patient care. There’s been much research on shift work and its adverse effects on a person’s health, specifically those ...

When you fall asleep tonight, an army of workers will keep the world going, but they’ll pay a price. In the United States, some 15 million workers are on evening or night shifts, or rotate on and off ...

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 ...

Hospitals are altering the way nurses change shifts — and it’s for the better, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. 1. Traditionally, nurses going off duty typically talk with the nurse ...