On September 27th, 2017, we watched a documentary made by Priyanka Boghani called, Rape on the Night Shift, which was made June 23rd, 2015. This document discusses the issues with a large number of women getting raped while doing their jobs, more specifically janitors, who aren’t protected by the company that they work for in the way that they should be. The documentary also goes over how rape is one of the most common crimes to go unreported, and unprosecuted. These rapes still occur because when
Working at the wrong time: Night shift work Working the night shift is a common practice in industrialized societies. Nevertheless, its adverse effects should not be excused as this plays a vital part in control of cancer and heart disease. Prevailing in healthcare, transport and production industries, its irreversible effects on bodily functions play a vital role in reducing accidents, sleep regulation, performance, and quality of rest. The term ‘Shift work’ is usually referred to uniformly divided
The fatigue associated with working the night shift was brought into the spotlight after an aircraft incident that occurred on June 10, 1990. British Airways flight 5390 had just departed from Birmingham International Airport when the aircraft experienced a rapid pressure loss due to the pilot’s windshield blowing out of the aircraft. This resulted in the pilot being sucked halfway out of the aircraft and another flight crew member grabbing the pilots belt and holding him from being sucked completely
"Can I have your Saturday night shift? Lilly was sick on Thursday and I need to make up for the hours I lost caring for her." A message like this was typical during my freshman and sophomore years at university, when I worked with many single mothers who struggled to afford medical care for their families. If asked then, I would have said I wanted to become a physician so I could help to change the difficult situation of people calculating the amount of work hours needed to afford medical care. The
Does Night Shift Increase Patient Care Errors? A nurse’s role is to advocate for the patient, provide care to them and their families, to do no harm, to promote healthcare and to alleviate suffering (AMA, 2015). With this being said, does working the night shift increase patient care errors? The human body is regulated by the circadian rhythms that tell the body when to sleep and wake, so does this altered sleep pattern have a correlation with patient care errors? When nurses work the night shift
A Response to Night Shift: Strawberry Spring Short Story Stephen King is the author of many novels and short stories with creepy settings; King admits that he fears bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. One of his earlier short stories from 1976, women at college fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character. My analysis of King’s use of the literary elements, combined with his horror reflected in his short story, “Strawberry Spring”. (The Fact Site, 8 Apr. 2017) Author Stephen
during my first night shift at Rady Children’s Hospital. In particular, this journal will address the theme of discernment. According to Jenny Gribble, the process of discerning involves wisdom and experience, as well as observation and biological knowledge. This first shift gave me plenty of opportunities to watch how differently people throughout the hospital employ their own discernment when assessing situations and making decisions related to patient care. During my first shift, the unit was busy
I work night shift at a hospital as a patient care assistant. My role is basically to provide basic care to patients and relieve the registered nurse of this burden so she can focus on medicating and assessing the heart of the patient’s troubles. I have only been honored to work in this profession for a mere five months now, but in that time, I have cheered on many recoveries and held many hands as the patient went to his final home. It is a very exhausting job, that sometimes does not feel very
2016 Research Article Critique “Sleep Quality in Nurses: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Day and Night Shift Workers” is a quantitative study by Nui, Chu Chung, Lin, Chang, and Chou published in the journal of Biological Research for Nursing (2012). The article aims to compare the amount of recovery time needed by nurses that work the night shift in relation to nurses that work the day shift. In order to determine if a study is eligible to use for developing evidence based practice it is important
INTRODCUTION For more than half of my career I have worked the off shift and have always felt that a greater presence of nursing leadership would be beneficial for the organization as well as the individual. I believe that the transformational leadership is the best model to bridge this gap since one of the key components of a transformational leader "is vision and the ability to communicate that vision to others so that it becomes a shared vision. This shared vision between the follower is translated