Working the night shift isn’t just bad for sleep — it could be seriously bad for your health. A study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that working during the wee hours ...

This article is sponsored by WellSky. As long-term care providers face tighter staffing, heavier documentation loads, and ...

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 first night is the worst night," said one nurse. Without careful planning, the night shift nurse can find him- or herself in the middle of a 24-hour sleep-deprivation marathon on the first night ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s been a lot in the news lately about people who work the late shift and have trouble staying awake, in particular about air traffic controllers. One group of people who seem to have developed a ...

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 ...

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 ...