Imagine yourself walking into a hospital cafeteria between 6am-7pm. Fresh fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and proteins are available to patients, families, visitors and staff. Flashing signs decorate the café with slogans to remind customers to choose healthy options. By 6pm or 7pm, the café is closed. The lights are dim and all is quiet. The hospital personnel dwindles to essential staff only. Then here comes the night shift. All the doctors, nurses and personnel, who keep the inter-workings of the hospital functioning, begin their “day.” For night shift employees, their “day” begins at night. As a night nurse, you arrive at 7pm prepared to care for patients and handle any emergencies that may arise until shift change at 7am. Traditionally, the beginning of the shift is the busiest with night medication passes; preparing patients for surgery for the next day; conversing with family members prior to the end of v...
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