While the Cedar Valley sleeps, Sandy Jorgenson is wide awake, keeping watch on the sick, the injured and the lonely. The third-shift nurse has worked at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital for 30 years.
Light intervention also results in better sleep quality after their shifts, nurses report. Nurses who received 40 minutes of bright light exposure prior to their night shifts experienced less fatigue ...
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Night shift advantage: Why overnight nursing builds skills you don’t get anywhere else
When most people think about nursing night shifts, their minds jump to exhaustion, disrupted routines, and the challenge of working against the body’s natural rhythm and cycle. For many nurses, being ...
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