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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finding creative ways to recruit and retain nurses at a Reno, Nevada, hospital led Barbara Hobbs, assistant dean of the SDSU College of Nursing Rapid City Site, to pursue research on the impact of ...

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 ...

A meta-analysis of international data confirms a positive association between long-term night shift work and an increased overall risk for cancer in women, particularly breast cancer. In North America ...