Night shift wellness: How to beat the biological clock Miscellaneous

  


Authors: Larkin, A.; Lafond, K.
Title: Night shift wellness: How to beat the biological clock
Abstract: The article informs about the night shift wellness, and working the graveyard shift as new nurses, that have learned many helpful lessons that can help to beat the biological clock and regulate the sleep cycle for improved wellness. Topics include working against the human biorhythm is naturally going to have side effects; and night shift work is associated with acute effects like sleep disturbances and social problems, as well as chronic effects, like cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
Keywords: exercise; sleep; light; circadian rhythm; wellness; biological clocks; food preferences; shiftwork; nurses -- psychosocial factors; sleep disorders, circadian rhythm
Journal Title: Beginnings
Volume: 40
Issue: 3
ISSN: 1071-2984
Publisher: American Holistic Nurses Association  
Date Published: 2020-06-01
Start Page: 28
End Page: 30
Language: English
ACCESSION: 144570918
PROVIDER: EBSCOhost
PROVIDER: cinahl
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Notes: Accession Number: 144570918 -- Entry Date: 20200726 -- Revision Date: 20200726 -- Publication Type: Article; pictorial -- Journal Subset: Nursing; USA -- NLM UID: 9303087. -- Source: Cinahl