Nurses working rotating night shifts may face unintended health consequences, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers, led by Céline Vetter, Ph.D ...

Many nurses who contributed to our night shift discussion commented on the effects that different work schedules have on health and safety. Two issues that arose repeatedly were 8-hour shifts vs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female nurses who work frequent night shifts may be at greater risk for certain cancers, according to a new study. Chinese researchers compared data from 61 studies, including more than 114,000 cancer ...

As nurses, we are often required to work long shifts. When nurses work extended hours, most of them do not have time to eat properly. This can adversely affect their health and well-being. Some nurses ...

Chef Chriss Brown and her nonprofit food truck, The Empowered Kitchen, brought night-shift nurses some culinary love. The specially-designed menu — “gourmet smokey pulled chicken grilled cheese on ...

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 ...

When we posted the article Help Me Make It Through the Night (Shift), we asked nurses to share their tips, routines, successes, and failures in surviving the night shift. We hoped to compile a list of ...