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Hospitals cutting nurses' long shifts

By Liz Kowalczyk
Globe Staff / September 17, 2005

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A growing number of hospitals, including Massachusetts General, have stopped scheduling nurses for extra-long shifts -- those of up to 16 hours -- amid growing national concern that exhausted healthcare workers are more prone to errors. (Full article: 1037 words)

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