Researchers from Finland recommend reducing short breaks between shifts and moving toward a forward-rotating shift system after a study revealed those changes help nurses recover more fully. Study ...

For female registered nurses, working a rotating night shift for five years or longer is associated with a small increase in risk of coronary heart disease, according to a study in JAMA. Researchers ...

Working when you're exhausted is unreasonable.

West Penn Hospital on Liberty Ave. in Bloomfield. For nurses like Sam Miller, a good night’s sleep can be rare. After constantly rotating between day shift and night shift, some days at West Penn ...

Nurses have mastered the concept of working harder and smarter to make it look like an art. But even during a long and often busy shift, having small creature comforts can brighten a nurse’s day (or ...

A new study examining the effects of sleep patterns and shift work on the immune system has found that sleep debt and night shifts increase the risk of several common infections in nurses. Modern ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One 12+ hour shift as a nurse can feel like a workout what with all the walking (and sometimes running) ...

There’s a thin, squiggly tattoo running down the forearm of diligent hospital nurse Floria, always visible past the short sleeves of her royal-blue scrubs, but hard to really get a look at, since her ...