Twelve hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse safety and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine, 2004) published a report which referred to studies as early as 1988 which discussed the negative affects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy. Workers with 12 hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8 hour shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan et al(Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu, & Aygun, 2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were: age of 24 or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical intensive care units and working for more than eight hours. As a clinician reading these studies, what would your next step be?