Wellness
Burnout, sleep, stress, and holding a boundary on a unit that never has enough people.
Night shift asks your body to do something it is built to resist. You can't fix that, but you can stop fighting yourself — light, timing, caffeine, and the one risk on the list that actually kills nurses.
Missed breaks are treated as a personality trait in nursing — a sign you're busy, or good. The evidence says they're a patient safety issue, and there's a specific reason the twenty-minute one is different from the ten.
