[cougarnurse]

From Yahoo: Hospital 'code blue' deadlier at night - Yahoo! News
They do have a point, here; there IS less staff. I seem to remember reading that many heart attacks happen at night.....

Any comments?

'Cat'

[AmandaWIRN]

"Only in the emergency room was there no night-or-day difference in survival."

That's cause night-shift ER nurses ROCK!

[cougarnurse]

ER's tend to have more staff because of 'emergencies'. Of course, I have heard of the 'hangnail that got worse at 2 a.m.', but, you know what I mean.

[XOEmmyLouOX]

In hosp and long term care there is always less staff at night. Facilities don't seem to understand patients don't care if it is night or day they have emergent situations no matter the time.

[cassioo]

we have 1 less nurse in L&D at night which usually isn't as busy because the inductions and scheduled c-sections aren't there but then those who actually go into labor on their own appear...and the scheduled ones arrive about 6 a.m. so admissions for the night shift.....
you are right hang nails are worse at 2 am so are the "my kids been sick for 3 days so now it's worse, I've had this pain in my side for 2 weeks now, I've had headaches my whole life. And NO I didn't call my doctor during hours for any of that.