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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...

Workers’wake-up call

06 October 2009

Nursing Standard

Feature

Researchers estimate that up to 50 per cent of the population have working patterns that are out of sync with their natural rhythms, and this can be harmful to...

Occupational hazard

27 January 2009

Nursing Standard

General article

Shifts that interfere with diurnal rhythms have been classified as a carcinogen of the same magnitude as ultraviolet light.