Influence of Shift Work on the Health of Nursing Professionals
Summary
Synthesizes evidence on how shift patterns affect nurses’ gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep, mood, and overall health.
Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls
Evidence here how timing of light, sleep, meals, and schedules shows sleep & alertness and mental health for night‑shift workers and night owls. Overall, the data make the schedule itself visible in physiology, not just in how people feel subjectively. For the audience living on night schedules, the key meaning is that the schedule’s timing choices show up in measurable outcomes.
Notes
Open access review of nurses’ shift work health effects.