An Exploratory Study to Assess the Impact of Shift Dutyon Health Among Staff Nurses Working In Selected Hospital Ajitgarh, Punjab

Introduction: Nursing is a profession that requires intelligence, motivation and determination since nursing school can be hard,and shift work is even more challenging. Materials and methods:The Non-Experimental Exploratory research design was used.The total sample size of the study was 60 staff nurses working in civil hospital phase-VI,Mohali, which were selected by nonprobability convenient sampling technique.The tool selected for the present study was self structure knowledge question and likertscale.The tool was validated by 6 nursing experts for establishing the content validity.The reliability of the tool was assessed by split half method and Cronbach's alpha and it was found to'r' 0.76 hence the found was highly reliable.Results: The analysis revealed that majority 96.7% of the study subject had average level of health score.3.3% of the study subject had poor level of health score and none of them study subject had good level of health score.Conclusions: in demographic variables family, duration of present shift duty and total work hours per week were significant with level of health score related to impact of shift duty among staff nurses.