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 ...

When most people think about nursing night shifts, their minds jump to exhaustion, disrupted routines, and the challenge of working against the body’s natural rhythm and cycle. For many nurses, being ...

A new study suggests that taking a two-hour nap during a night shift may help restore brain function and memory in nurses.

Many medical professionals working night shifts struggle to get enough quality sleep. Working those late hours significantly impacts our natural circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm internally regulates ...

There’s been a lot in the news lately about people who work the late shift and have trouble staying awake, in particular about air traffic controllers. One group of people who seem to have developed a ...

Three nurses discuss how they manage their sleep schedules when working 12-hour shifts. We invite all nurses and nursing leaders currently working in healthcare settings to participate in a series of ...

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West Penn Hospital on Liberty Ave. in Bloomfield. For nurses like Sam Miller, a good night’s sleep can be rare. After constantly rotating between day shift and night shift, some days at West Penn ...

Nurses are more vulnerable to common infections such as colds due to working night shifts, warns new research. Scientists examining the effects of sleep patterns and shift work on the immune system ...

The biggest challenge with night shift is the misalignment it does to sleep timings. According to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which is Britain's national regulator for workplace health ...

A new study adds to the research that night-shift work can be deadly, increasing breast cancer risk and speeding it's spread, ...