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The study Auditory Attention and Comprehension During a Simulated Night Shift: Effects of Task Characteristics is about negative impacts night shifts and sleep deprivation have on a person. Their logic is that night shifts lead to sleep deprivation which in turn negatively affects performance. Language processing is also observed during the study as well. “Human endogenous circadian rhythms interact with shiftwork resulting in sleep deprivation which negatively affects performance (Reinberg,…

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…

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…

How can working 3rd shift cause more health issues for women than men working 2nd shift? That is a great question to ask. Is it because the lack of sleep which causes sleep deprivation or because the mind needs ample time to recharge Is it because, effects of sleep deprivation between shifts depending on whether they have adjusted to the shift over time? Is it because sleeping too little or sleeping “against” your body’s natural biological clock could increase the likelihood of developing…

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…

“The Structures of Everyday Life” is an explanatory piece describing the Biological Ancien Regime prior to the Industrial Revolution. (91) The central question is, “What constituted the Biological Ancien Regime?” (91) The author, Fernand Braudel, argues that the Biological Ancien Regime was the system held the demographic population in equilibrium and systematically explains how the system accomplishes this. (70-71) These factors holding the population in equilibrium were the elements of the…

Shift work has a detrimental impact on paramedics which compromises clinical judgement and patient safety. Paramedics are constantly and increasingly faced with heavy workloads that are mentally, emotionally, and physically tiring (Anstey, Tweedie, & Lord, 2016). Rostered shift work influences a loss of routine causing fatigue, sleep disturbance, and can potentially have a negative influence on a paramedic’s mental health (Sofianopoulos, Williams, Archer, and Thompson, 2011). This assignment…

Experience On 9/20 and 9/30 I completed my third and forth shift on 7 West at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Although these were not my first shift on the unit they were my first shift with my regular preceptor Elle. The first two shifts I was working with Laura who was my temporary preceptor, while Elle was on vacation. The first night was calm because of low census and the second night it was a bit busier throughout the night. On our first shift together we were the resources nurses, which was an…

at (CMC) will not agree to accept a shift change that has resulted from closing one of the facility’s wings. Ms. Pearson claims that because of her medical problems she is protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)--42 U.S. Code § 12102 and does not need to accept the change from the first shift to the second shift. She feels that the organization must make a reasonable accommodation that would allow her to continue working on the first shift. The optimal and most reasonable…

Call to Your Tribe For most of my life I have always felt a little out of place, like I am walking around in a humans body, but that’s not who I really am.I am often the guardian of the lost and protector of the week. While this road I am on is not the always the easiest,I understand now that this is the contract I took on when I came to this life. As much as I have tried to fight it, it’s who I am. This road that I have chosen is one that can be quit lonely and this is the part I have…