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Developing a successful self-rostering shift system

02 July 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Three wards of different sizes and with a mixture of full-time and part-time staff, qualified and unqualified, took part in a self-rostering trial lasting a total of...

Strategies for coping with shift work

03 October 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Shift work is a requirement of nursing and essential to provide patients with optimum levels of continuous care. However, working shift patterns can have deleterious...

CCTV and night-time observations

01 July 2004

Mental Health Practice

Ethics

The practice of observing patients in inpatient units remains a contentious and widely discussed issue. It is, perhaps, therefore surprising that technology has not,...

Shifting the patterns of nurses’ work

02 August 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical personnel

Although most nurses tend to work a three shift pattern of‘earlies’, ‘lates’ and ‘nights', increasing interest is being shown in the use of 12-hour shift patterns....