Dear Stephanie, Thank you for encouraging this dialogue. I have no recent personal anecdotes but, as someone who studies sleep, I am committed to answering the questions you have posed. I will respond to each question in turn. What impacts ...

Thank you for inviting member feedback on the potential move toward abolishing seasonal time changes. As an IEN who has worked across acute care, long-term care, and community health settings, I have personally witnessed the toll that time shifts take ...

Thank you for the opportunity to share our thoughts on this important topic. Eliminating seasonal time changes and adopting a fixed standard time would likely have a positive impact on nurses and the quality of patient care. Currently, the twice-yearly ...

My understanding is that research shows changing the time has negative impacts on people's health and well-being. I know it has also been an obvious challenge working with clients with impaired cognition and sometimes is a bit of a logistical challenge ...

Thanks for this opportunity to share. From an IEN perspective, a fixed time system would perhaps be beneficial for night shift nurses. It would eliminate the disruption caused by "losing" an hour in the spring and "gaining" an hour in the fall. A ...

Good morning, Having a fixed standard time would have a positive impact on nurses because shift work is already difficult, disrupting the circadian rhythm, adding the seasonal change as well, takes time to adjust. Nurses would no longer need to adjust ...

My preference would be to stay with standard time across Canada, however Yukon has already adopted daylight savings time year round. Daylight savings time no longer has a place in this day and age and should not have a negative effect on nurses working ...