How hard can it be? Everyone does it. That was our faulty mentality before I had my first baby. After ...

"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 ...

The responsibilities are the same — but there are still new challenges. Working the night shift as a nurse can require considerable adjustments if your career has thus far been limited to daytime ...

Nurses who binge-drink also multiply their risk for COVID. Nurses who work the night shift or binge drink may double their risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a study that set out to determine ...

A small study found that nurses working double shifts had higher cortisol levels, especially at midnight, than nurses working single shifts. That suggests longer shifts may disrupt the normal daily ...

"The rest of the non-owl world isn't overly considerate to the nocturnal folks," is how one nurse summed up the problem of working nights in a day-oriented society. Even with the Internet, nonstop ...