Letter From a Woman Janitor Working the Night Shift

The jumpy janitor. Letter to an ethicist.

Medical staff working the night shift: can naps help?

Napping at night may benefit both health professionals and their patients elivering medical care is a 24-hour business that inevitably involves working the night shift. However, night shift requires the health professional to work when the body' s clock (circadian system) demands sleep. Added to this is the problem of " sleep debt " , arising from both prolonged prior wakefulness on the first n...

Working the night shift: a necessary time for training or a risk to health and safety?

The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) limits excessive night shifts and restricts the working week to no more than 48 hours. The underlying rationale is to minimise the health risks to all workers. Here we debate the impact of night rotas for doctors-in-training on patient safety and medical education; when the EWTD was agreed these topics may not have been considered, either systematicall...

Working the night shift: preparation, survival and recovery--a guide for junior doctors.

Following the implementation of the European Working Time Directive Regulations, almost all junior doctors in the UK now work full night-shifts. An RCP 50-member working group was established to develop a practical guide to help junior doctors prepare, survive and recover from working night shifts. The guide, set out in this paper, examines the evidence concerning the hazards of shiftwork, and ...

serum pro-oxidant-antioxidant balance assay in nurses who working day and rotating night shift

results a significant higher serum pab value was observed in shift working and daytime nurses (152.28 ± 43.64 hk) in comparison to the control group (63.64 ± 34.41 hk index), p value = 0.001. in day time nurses, also serum pab between male (119.09 ± 47.14 hk) and female (162.53 ± 37.02 hk) in nursing workers was significant, p value = 0.005. in the night shift working nurses, there was also a s...