Night Shift

looked at a 8 hour shift and a 40 hour work week similar to police. This option usually is not viabale due to the fact it requires a 40% increase in a current staff size within a department that already employs a 24 hour on duty shift scheduel. (Davis, 2000) points out that a 12/12 split shift can show a benefit of overtime savings as compared to a 24 hours shift because less hours need to be paid if a employee calls off, but it is further pointed out that a 10/14 hour shift would be more…

take from this article is that there is many factors that play a part in sleep deprivation. Seasonal changes happen to be one of them. Losing hours of sleep on one night will lead over to the next day, afterwards the pattern continues. There is also a strong need for developing coping strategies from being fatigues due to work shifts and seasonal…

Nurses no longer sleep in wards near their patients. The 24-hour clock has been split into shift work. Initially the split was three 8-hour shifts, but in the 1970s to aid in the alleviation of the nursing shortage 24-hour staffing was changed to two 12-hour shifts (Rollins, 2015). Most nurses found the 12-hour shifts appealing. The 12-hour shifts led to less work hours and less work days, allowing nurses to better balance their job and family life. However, this change…

New York City's Graveyard Shift is an essay about everyday people having night jobs in New York City. The essay talks about some of the people’s experience and thoughts about their night jobs. It is the norm to have a 9 to 5 job in the city, coming home to having the rest of the day to yourself, or going home to cook dinner for your family. For the rest of the city, people are just getting up to prepare themselves for night of labor. My favorite photo from the essay has to be of Villavicencio a…

“No biggie,” shrugged Mike Kaputtie barely glancing up from the small television set he’d been glued to—an old black-and-white episode of the Andy Griffith Show was playing on its tiny screen. The graveyard shift so far that night at Airingdale Cryogenics, like all shifts at A.C. was slow, but midnights were by far the worst. The place could've practically run all by itself if need be. Backup systems upon backups, making sure that all the machinery and refrigeration units were working…

only respect. My boss was the most unprofessional boss I have ever had. I was told on the day I was hired that I needed to wear dress clothes during my shift, so the next day I went out and bought some nice blouses and a pair of dress pants, as my boss had suggested, not yet knowing the huge differences in our dress code. On the day of my first shift, as soon as I walked through the door, my boss asked me if I needed to go finish getting ready before I got started. When he saw my confusion he…

a cross sectional study with a qualitative case study approach. The nurses will be females, ages 25-50 years old with 0-10 years of experience. The dependent variable will consist of a scale measuring negative impacts on the individual nurse from shift work. Four independent variables will be examined. They include age, experience vs. no experience, mandated vs. choice and napping. Ethical considerations end limitations of the study will be discussed further in this chapter. Instrumentation A…

Imagine a rocket, specifically molded, perfectly symmetrical, prepared to do it’s job exactly how it needs to with no room for error. Seems almost perfect, on the other hand we have the Rockets, my AAA hockey team the summer before sixth grade. It was made up of players from the La Crosse area who played and practiced together every summer for the last few years. We weren’t exactly the most organized team in the sense of having professional attitudes. The ceiling at our practice arena had leaks…

situation, people begin to think more about their own safety than the safety of others. With the approach of first-person narratives in both Night by Elie Wiesel and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the reader can hear about and recount the events as they happened from the individual’s perspectives the way that those individuals experienced the events. In Night, where Elie recounts his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust and a prisoner in multiple concentration camps, and The…

Working late hours or having to stay up to late hours of the night can result in a lack of sleep when your alarm for your eight o’clock begins to ring. A lack of sleep can result in poor performance in school and at your job. As a result, your grades could plummet because you fell asleep while studying. Also, you may begin to fall asleep during class or while working because you’re completely drained from a long work shift and staying up until three o’clock writing an essay. In addition, a…