Sentences with phrase «working the night shift»

Everett decided to take an educational leave of absence to do an Executive MBA at Haskayne and work night shifts at the hospital.

We worked the day shift, and they worked the night shift, literally.

This is the first Pope that reflects an everyday person — The Father who works the night shift, the Mom who wakes up early to prepare lunch for her kids, the brother or sister struggling to find their way in school.

Still, any time we're working the night shift with Jesus, we must be prepared for an outbreak of Easter.

My husband works in a hospital and once he worked night shift and came home at my breakfast time and wanted tacos sooooo bad so I made eggs and toast for me and tacos for him.

For as long as I can remember, my father has worked the night shift... and for most of my childhood, I also remember that once he came home at the end of his shift... while all the house was quiet... he became a FOOD THEIF!!

(I work night shift as a nurse and many of us survive on Red Bulls and pizza.)

Beth works the night shift at a hospital in Illinois, where she is known for not only being a good, dependable driver, but someone who really cares about and connects with people.

How was I going to keep all four kids happy and entertained for an entire week when the weather was iffy, my husband was working the night shift, and I was on deadline on a magazine article?

I work a night shift and when I get home I'm tired but I force myself to spend time with my wife and son.

My mom stayed home with us when my brother and I were babies, and when life circumstances no longer made that possible, she and my dad organized their schedules so that at least one of them was home with us, even though this was incredibly difficult and meant someone working a night shift to make it possible.

But I have to do something because every morning after I work a night shift, my family is falling into little tiny pieces which means I'm trying to fix them and not able to recover from having been up working all night and I am starting to get just a teensy bit resentful.

You might also miss a period if you have a change in your sleep patterns, for example, you start working night shifts and sometimes that can throw your cycles out of whack and make your period wonky for a bit as your body adjusts to it.

I'm an expert in sleep deprivation — I've worked night shifts for almost a decade while watching my four (soon to be five) kids during the day.

If you work the night shift or have to transport your child at bedtime, the carrier may prove to be vital to you as well.

When we talk about poverty some parents have to work night shifts, weird hours for very small pay and are tired so sleep is absolutely necessary.

I was nursing and working night shift and it was easiest to have him in our bed, so we co-slept.

Thank you for spending years and years studying, struggling, working night shifts, and dealing with sick people.

I was inspired to write this song one night after sending my night - owl son, the one that used to keep me awake, off to work the night shift at the post office.

I have 5 week old boys and I'm often on my own at night, as husband works night shifts.

After all, he's just spent nine months in a dark womb snoozing to his own timetable, blissfully unaware of the fact that most people (unless they work the night shift) are supposed to be awake during the day (when it's light) and asleep at night (when it's dark).

For instance, going abruptly from a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift suddenly to a 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. shift not only sleep but mood in a way that persists beyond the first few days of working the night shift.

Besides, it beats working the night shift at The Gap.

If the findings hold up in humans, they could help explain why people who work night shifts tend to be overweight and suffer health problems.

(Reuters Health)- People who occasionally work night shifts may be at a slightly increased risk of heart disease, according to a new study.

But the risk of coronary heart disease came back down as women quit working night shifts or retired, the researchers found.

Of all the occupations analyzed, nurses had the highest risk of developing breast cancer if they worked the night shift.

There is some evidence that prolonged standing and working the night shift can lead to reproductive problems, says Grajewski.

«Nurses that worked the night shift were of a medical background and may have been more likely to undergo screening examinations,» noted Ma.

Van Blerkom's day had begun more than 16 hours earlier, but human development works the night shift, so Van Blerkom does too.

When we constantly travel through different time zones, work night shifts, or push ourselves to stay awake at the regular sleep time, our central clock is being chronically disrupted.

An association between exposure to light at night and breast cancer was seen, not only in premenopausal women and current and past smokers, but also among those women who worked night shifts.

This new understanding of how circadian rhythms are regulated through the eye could open up new therapeutic possibilities for restoring biological clocks in people who have jet lag through travelling or working night shifts.

The Belgian researchers said these findings could eventually aid in the understanding of sleep disorders, and help folks who work night shifts or those with jet lag.

I was working the night shift in a busy Intensive Care Unit in San Diego as a nurse.

Study after study has linked working the night shift and exposure to light at night to several types of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

If you're working a shift job or one that requires heavy labor, now's the time to prioritize sleep, good nutrition, and exercise, says Diana Bitner, MD, an ob - gyn at Spectrum Health Medical Group in Grand Rapids, Mich. «I work with many nurses who work night shifts and long hours, as well as female physicians; I myself had preterm labor as an ob - gyn resident,» she says.

Study after study has linked working the night shift and exposure to light at night to several types of cancer (breast, prostate), diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

Many of the people participating in our center's research studies really just needed a lifestyle change — to stop eating so much sugar, or to stop working night shifts that disrupted sleep patterns for instance — more than they needed a drug.

It was working night shift, when I was in college.

A note for those who work the night shift — get off this schedule as soon as you possibly can.

Studies among nurses have demonstrated that working night shifts increases risk of IBS.

I need some help, I got a new job and it requieres two times a week to work the night shift (11 pm -7 am) im scared of gaining weight, since I read that «working at night makes you fat» im not planning in changing my schedule when it comes to my meals, but, should I eat something while im at work?

But when your body clock is disrupted or thrown out of balance by occasional or continuous interruptions of sleeping patterns, changes in light exposure, working the night shift regularly or other disruptions in your schedule, your natural circadian rhythms can become accelerated or slowed, leading to a cascade of physiologic impacts.

After adjusting for body mass index (BMI — an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) and lifestyle factors such as diet and smoking, the researchers found that black women who worked night shifts for 10 or more years still had a 23 percent increased risk of developing diabetes.

Five percent said they had worked night shifts for at least 10 years, the researchers noted.

It's important to note, however, that the study wasn't designed to prove that working the night shift can cause diabetes, only that there is an association between the two.

Compared to never working night shifts, the risk of diabetes was 17 percent higher for one to two years of night shifts.

And those who had ever worked the night shift had a 12 percent increased risk.

Of those women, 37 percent said they had worked night shifts.