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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...