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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

"Like most successful night nurses, I'm an owl by nature." Quite a few night nurses said that they have been owls for as long as they can remember. Owls dislike rising early, like to stay up late, and ...