Background:
The nursing is a kind of shift work , the operating time changes unceasingly. That not only destroys the biological rule, but also disturbs the day-night rhythm. Diagnosis by feeling the pulse is a kind of important method for Chinese medicine. It is also a kind of unique method for diagnosis, prognosis, and judgment the condition of the patient. There is very widely use of HRV in a lot of research. In actually, it is a kind of simply, non-invasive tool for the observation of the activity of autonomic nerve. We will quantify the Empirical datum, which was collected from HRV and the instrument that can be diagnosed the differential of pulse. To find out the correlation between the change of autonomic nerve and the pulse in shift nurses. We also can afford the measure improving the working conditions.
Material and methods:
33 nurses were enrolled this study. They were separated into 3 groups which depends on the care unit (OR, ICU, WARD) they were belonged. The ANS watch was adopted for measuring HRV and pulse diagnosis at the day-shift, before and after the 1st day of night-shift, before and after the 5th day of night-shift.
Result:
There is no significant difference in pulse diagnosis in 3 groups. We find some parameters of HRV were predominately related to age. And the parameters of HRV are independent of work unit, work strains, the duration of night-shift, the time of measuring.
