American Academy of Nursing Policy Recommendations to Reduce Health Risks of Night‑Shift Work
Summary
Summarizes evidence and offers system‑level recommendations to reduce adverse health impacts of night work among nurses.
Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls
This monograph how rotation direction, quick‑returns, and long duties shows sleep, alertness, recovery, and metabolic markers for night‑shift workers and night owls. Patterns in the data make ‘quick returns’ and rotation direction concrete risk features rather than abstract policy terms. For night‑shift teams and individuals, this ties long‑debated rota features to concrete outcomes, making schedule talk about health, not preference.
Notes
Nursing Outlook (Elsevier).