Couples who work regular nine-to-five jobs have it hard enough trying to find time for each other. But for people working shifts, finding time for both rest and relationship can seem near impossible. Finding...
#Shift Worker Series — Alarm tones rouse Poudre Fire Authority’s Jenna Ladowski, 35, jolting her from the depths of REM to emergency-ready in moments. She and her colleagues step into their gear...
#Shift Worker Series — Fatigue takes a serious toll on shift workers. One study found that nurses who reported to work fatigued were 3.4 percent more likely to err or have a near miss while caring...
#Shift Worker Series — Trauma often leads to troubled #sleep. But what people don’t realize is that the caretakers of victims of trauma can also struggle to find the sleep they need. So says Juli...
Shift Worker Series — Jay Haas works the graveyard shift at a job you might not think of as shift work. He is a “production specialist” at Microchip, an Arizona-based microchip manufacturing...
Circadian rhythms are regular changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of a day (circadian is Latin for “around a day”). Most circadian rhythms are controlled...