How Do Nurses Feel About Working Nights? At the end of the first article, we asked readers the following question: "How do you feel about working nights?" The final results were as follows: "The night ...

Working the night shift can throw off your body clock, leaving you feeling tired and sleep-deprived. But, increasingly, evidence suggests that shift work harms health in other ways, raising the risk ...

Working the night shift, or any schedule outside of a standard 9–to–5, can lead to shift-work sleep disorder (SWSD). SWSD occurs when your sleep-wake patterns don't align with your internal clock ...

Working the night shift, frequently flying across time zones or keeping an irregular sleep schedule does more than just leave us exhausted; it can fuel the risk of aggressive breast cancer. Exactly ...

The night shift isn’t usually anyone’s first choice, but in some professions — and in this economy — it can’t be avoided. About 26% percent of the American workforce, including health-care workers and ...

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"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 ...