Introduction Generally shift work is becoming more predominant as a working agenda in the public sector and during 2005-2006‚ Work safe Australia (2009) calculated that at least 16% or 1.6 million Australians were engaged in shift work. Subsequently‚ recent studies outlined by Kantermann et al. (2010) suggest that the health and wellbeing of millions of employee’s are seriously affected by shift work. The impact of shift work can play havoc to various homeostatic mechanisms on individuals‚ particularly
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Registered nurses occupy one of the largest groups of health care providers. Often time’s nurses work overtime and consecutive shifts without adequate breaks or rest time. Most new graduates in the nursing field are required to do shift work hours due to lack of experience. Shift work hours refers to night shift 12 hour tour 8pm-8am or night tour 8 hours 12 midnight-8am.Working days are a privilege in the nursing field and it requires years of experience due to the tour itself being very heavy.
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PAPER TOPIC: issues that arise from working shift work Introduction Many jobs today work around the conventional time schedule‚ such as working 8am to 4pm. The human body comes built with a biological clock that keeps everything in sync. One may ask what a biological clock is. This paper will explore the effects that are caused by working shift work. Shift work can be defined as “a system of employment where an individual’s normal hours of work are‚ in part‚ outside the period of normal day
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DATE: 2ND AUGUST 2013 1. Introduction Shift work is common in many sectors. Essential and emergency services such as medical‚ transport‚ fire and rescue‚ law enforcement services and some public services have to be provided round-the-clock. In recent years‚ some service establishments such as convenience stores and fast food shops also provide 24-hour service and employees concerned therefore are required to work in shifts. Suitably arranged shift work is important to employees‚ employers and
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Should women be permitted to work late night shifts? Shift work is a planning strategy designed for organizations that operates in constant service for twenty-four hours‚ which includes late night shifts that begin after seven o’clock in the evening and finishing before nine o’clock in the morning. Due to the nature of this type of work‚ it becomes problematic for women to work late night shifts. Information for this essay has been obtained through secondary research using websites and electronic
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Disadvantages to Working the Night Shift By Sid Williams III‚ eHow Contributor updated: March 11‚ 2010 1. As many companies operate 24 hours per day‚ there are jobs that require night or graveyard shift employees. Although it is true that working in night shifts has advantages--higher pay and less supervision--it also has several disadvantages. Health Concerns 2. Working the night shift poses health concerns primarily because the brain is programmed to sleep at night. Since the sleeping
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Introduction:- Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of‚ or provide service across‚ all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week (abbreviated as24/7). The practice typically sees the day divided into "shifts"‚ set periods of time during which different groups of workers take up their posts. The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts. A night shift is determined by the number of hours an employee works‚ and the
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Fatigue‚ and Recovery Between Shifts One of the most prominent aspects of nurses’ lives that are detrimentally impacted by working 12-hour shifts is their sleep. Research shows that extended work schedules and sustained shift work‚ such as that seen in 12-hour shifts‚ can interfere with nurses’ abilities to achieve adequate sleep by reducing the number of hours for physical and cognitive recovery and the number of hours that can be devoted to sleeping between shifts (Geiger-Brown et al.‚ 2011; Geiger-Brown
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Medication Errors and Amount of Sleep to Day Shift Nurses‚ Night Shift Nurses and Graveyard Shift Nurses Medication Error Amount of Sleep Day Shift Nurses Night Shift Nurses Graveyard Shift Nurses Medication Error – any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional (Hughes‚ R. and Blegen‚ M.) Amount of Sleep – quality and quantity of sleep Day Shift Nurses – nurses working 8 hours‚ established
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Day Shift Versus Night Shift in Law Enforcement Think about it for a second when something bad happens who are the people that get called first‚ your local law enforcement officers. There are people from dispatchers to the patrol itself working all day‚ and all night to ensure the safety of communities. Being in a career field that requires someone to be working at all times throughout the day one often wonders the effects it has on someone. During the day there are so many benefits that are available
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