Author name: Olivia Walch

Running the numbers on health care shift workers

At Arcascope, we’re focused on helping shift workers get more sleep and feel better with circadian-specific interventions. In particular, we’ve spoken to a lot of shift workers in the healthcare industry about their experiences working nights.  A lot of the lessons we’ve learned are echoed in this recent survey we ran with 218 nurses who …

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Feeling Flat

Over and over again, I’ve heard shift workers say something like the following:  “I have no rhythms.”  “It’s just a constant experience of bleh.” “I get off shift, and more than tired, I just feel… flat.” “Ah,” I think when I hear this. “The amplitudes of their circadian rhythms have been squashed.” To steal an …

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