Anyone know of any good books/papers about surviving nightshift work?
Anyone know of any good books/papers about surviving nightshift work?
Scientific papers are too complicated generally with their vocab and I've trawled through lots of like social media posts and wedmd/live strong type posts.
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I have found its more through tips from colleges and shared trauma. In my experience its the intial change to nights thats hard once I've done 2 my body has started to adjust.
- either stay up late and go to sleep early morning to start transition - nap alot during the day and use caffeine to pull throughOnce on shift you need to keep active mentally and physically, being idle is the killer, make sure to take short breaks, keep hydrated, it is very easy to over snack but you need to keep eating.
The change back after isnt too bad imho you can gey some sleep straight away and but wake mid afternoon and can start to pull back to normal.
make sure you get paid for the rest day after when coming back to days you have worked that time you have taken the sacrifice and deserve to be compensated for it.
Are theres 12 or 8 hour nights? One is nicer.