Nurses were then given 40 minutes of bright light exposure from a portable light box before their night shifts. After the light intervention, the nurses made a total of seven errors—a reduction ...

In North America and Europe, working the night shift was associated with a 32% increased risk for breast cancer overall (odds ratio [OR], 1.316), the authors report.

Dear Annie: I’ve worked as a night-shift nurse for the past six years and have always struggled with sleep, but lately it’s gotten worse.I’m lucky if I get four hours during the day, and ...

So I’m receiving report from the outgoing night-shift charge nurse at a Florida corrections facility. “His right foot is 12 and a quarter inches this morning,” she says.

Angela Williams, Springside’s director of nursing, said this is standard and is considered good staffing on a shift where most residents are asleep. This is the reason why regulations allow fewer ...

Commenting on the review, a Royal College of Nursing spokesperson said: “It should not have taken this length of time to recognise the need for staff to have access to healthy and nutritious food ...