Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> >On 5 Jun 2003 at 7:09, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > > At 02:57 AM 6/5/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:
> > > >http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/04/cancer.nightshifts.re
> > > >ut/
> > > >
> > > >Nurses who work regular night shifts have a higher risk of colon
> > > >cancer, a study found, suggesting a relationship between the amount
> > > >of sunlight exposure and the cancer.
> > >
> > > So presumably the solution is to let the patients just fend for
> > > themselves until morning . . .
>
> Andy responded:
> >...provide deacent lighting...
>
> Rotate shifts and spread the risk around.
But you need to be careful how often you rotate the shifts -- every 2
weeks, and people's sleep schedules get severely messed up; just as
they're adapting to the new one, the change throws them for another
loop. At least, that's what I remember from an article analyzing the
incident at Three Mile Island not too long after it happened (and that
was what, 2/3 of my lifetime ago?).
I'd say rotating the shifts every 2 months would probably be best, based
on what I typed above.
Julia
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