Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Andrew Crystall
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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Reggie Bautista
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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:00 PM 6/5/03 -0500, 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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:00 PM 6/5/03 -0500, 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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Russell Chapman
I'm sorry, but I'm confused. Are they saying the night shift workers get less sunshine than day workers? Why would this be so? Over the course of a year (or 6 months equinox to equinox), there are roughly equal daylight hours and night time hours... If we assume we work between 8-10 hours incl

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Reggie Bautista
Russell Chapman wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm confused. Are they saying the night shift workers get less sunshine than day workers? Why would this be so? Over the course of a year (or 6 months equinox to equinox), there are roughly equal daylight hours and night time hours... If we assume we work

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Reggie Bautista
I wrote: The few nurses I personally know who work at hospitals, at least here in KC, work 12 hour shifts. With commute, that's, say, 13 hours. Minimum 8 hours sleep because hospital nursing is stressful work leaves 3 hours leisure time -- minus 1 hour to shower and eat before going to work,

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Russell Chapman
Reggie Bautista wrote: The few nurses I personally know who work at hospitals, at least here in KC, work 12 hour shifts. I forgot to mention they work 4 days on, 2 days off, so their weekends don't always match up with the weekends of their significant others. That's a 56 hour week! Our nurses

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Reggie Bautista
Russell wrote: That's a 56 hour week! Our nurses work either a 35 or 38 hour week. How do they convince anyone to become a nurse with those conditions? 16 hours a week of overtime pay (1.5 times regular rate), except for those nurses who are on salary instead of being paid hourly. As is pretty

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
/ 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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/04/cancer.nightshifts.reut/ 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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-06 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: And what about those of us who keep bizarre hours anyway; will our cancer risk be higher? Hmm, better keep those multivitamins and fresh veggies coming... Veggies good. The more vitamins you can get from your food,

night shifts

2003-06-05 Thread The Fool
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/04/cancer.nightshifts.reut/ 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. The study by researchers at Harvard Medical School

Re: night shifts

2003-06-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:57 AM 6/5/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/04/cancer.nightshifts.reut/ 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

Re: night shifts

2003-06-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Deborah Harrell wrote: And what about those of us who keep bizarre hours anyway; will our cancer risk be higher? Hmm, better keep those multivitamins and fresh veggies coming... Veggies good. The more vitamins you can get from your food, rather than supplementally with vitamin pills, the