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R.E. Hengsterman is a registered nurse, medical writer, Pushcart Prize–nominated, award-winning fiction writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in healthcare. Author of the Shift Workers Paradox @ nursewhowrites.com
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Every Award Matters—Because Every Author Journey Matters

Any award—large or small—carries weight for an author.

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December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Every Award Matters—Because Every Author Journey Matters

Any award—large or small—carries weight for an author.

#AuthorLife
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December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#water #nursing #weightloss
Weekly Re-Alignment: Water Is Harder Than It Looks
Modern water bottles are absurdly large, and increasingly performative. What began as a practical tool has turned into a rotating identity marker: the flavor-of-the-month brand, the limited-edition c...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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THE BEGINNING (AGAIN)
Do I chase the workouts? Do I tighten the nutrition? Do I try to optimize both? We all know the phrase: you can’t out train a bad diet. From an energy and caloric perspective, that’s true enough.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#nurses #shiftworkers #nursewhowrites #health
A One-Year Experiment in Living the Shift Worker’s Paradox
A 12-month experiment that focuses on rhythm, repair and resilience. I will give frequent updates, yet not with the goal of being perfect, or of being perfect in the way of being a performer, but rath...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#nursewhowrites #vaccine #hepbvaccine #publichealth
When Science Bends: The New Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Recommendation and the Quiet Risk We’re Creating
There are moments in healthcare when the ground shifts beneath your feet. You feel it in the pit of your stomach before the policy changes arrive. This week was one of those moments.I Don’t Have a Dog...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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#nurse #nursing #nightshift #shiftworker
Night Shift, Illness, and HRV: What the Data Reveal
Then my heart rate variability (HRV) dropped to 14. That’s not just “a rough stretch.” That’s a real-time signal that my autonomic nervous system—the balance between sympathetic fight-or-flight and p...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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#menshealth #prostatecancer #psa
The New IsoPSA Test: What Men with Family History Need to Know
Those of us living under that biology understand the math: early detection is leverage. The IsoPSA test has become one of the more meaningful developments in that space.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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#nurse #nursing #shiftworker
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The Four-Count Reset: A Night Shift Lesson in Physiology and Survival
I remember the night with absolute clarity. A routine shift, until it wasn’t.The room compressed, the air thinned, and my own physiology staged a quiet rebellion. I’m not built for anxiety, if anythin...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Why The Shift Worker’s Paradox Matters for Every Night-Shift Professional
Night work demands more than resilience—it requires understanding what chronic circadian disruption does to your body, mood, cognition, and long-term health.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Depression, Aging, and the Night Shift: The Weight We Carry
Shift work carves its lessons into the body long before we’re ready to understand them. Aging simply unmasks what was always there. The vulnerability becomes harder to outrun, harder to medicate with ...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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#nightshift #nurse #nursewhowrites #shiftworker #cancer
The Realities of Night-Shift Work—and Why Understanding Them Matters More Than Ever
For nurses, this is not an academic footnote. It is our lived environment.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#nurse #nurselife #nurseshortage #nursingcrisis
The Business of Discontent: How Nurses Became the New Target Market for Monetized Escape Plans
Today, we’ve traded macramé and macrobiotics for ring lights, Canva templates, and digital downloads—but it’s the same old playbook.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#burnout #staffingcrisis
Staffing Crisis: A Persistent Crisis & Systemic Challenge
This isn’t about resilience. Nurses aren’t burning out because they’re insufficiently tough. They’re burning out because the clinical environment has drifted outside the tolerances of human physiology...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Looking for fellow nurses and beta readers and shift workers on the platform who work or have worked the night shift and have Amazon with the ability to leave a review and first look at the book. If you are interested please contact me at www. nursewhowrites.com and fill out the contact form.
The Shift Worker's Paradox Book
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Props to my cover artist. Turned out amazing. Early copy in hand. Available everywhere 12/10/2025

Preorder for paperback this week. Ebook link in bio.

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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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#CaffeineAndHeartHealth #AFibAwareness #ShiftWorkersParadox #NurseWhoWrites #CardiacHealth #NursingEducation #HeartRhythm #HealthLiteracy #EvidenceBasedPractice #MedicalWriting #CoffeeAndAFib #ScienceOfSleep #NurseLife #HealthResearch #CardiovascularWellness
Coffee, Caffeine, and AFib: The Evidence That Upends Decades of Caution
What we actually see in epidemiology is that AFib risk is driven far more by age, sex, and comorbidities than by caffeine.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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#NursingShortageMyth #NurseStaffing #HealthcareEconomics #MedicalErrors #HospitalUnderstaffing #PatientSafety #NurseAdvocacy #HealthcareReform #NurseWhoWrites #ShiftWorkersParadox #SystemicChange #NursingLeadership #WorkforceReality #ClinicalEthics
Refuting the Claims and Reframing the Reality of Nursing
The Claims We’ve Heard 1. “The system runs on the back of nurses — breaking themselves to keep it from collapsing.”2. “We (nurses) are the safety net for a system with holes too big to mend.”3. “It’s ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) and the Future of IVF: Science, Ethics, and the Edge of Eugenics

#PolygenicRiskScores #IVFScience #EmbryoScreening #GenomicEthics #EugenicsDebate #ReproductiveTechnology #AGI #FutureOfHumanity #ShiftWorkersParadox #NurseWhoWrites
Polygenic Embryo Selection and the Future of IVF: Science Nearing Prime Time
Even then, I felt the tension between scientific wonder and social unease—questions of control, randomness, and what it means to intervene in creation.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#LongTermMelatoninUse #HeartFailureRisk #SleepHealth #InsomniaResearch #CardiovascularHealth #NurseWhoWrites #EvidenceBasedPractice #ShiftWorkersParadox #ClinicalEducation #MelatoninStudy #CircadianHealth #HealthLiteracy #SleepMedicine #HeartHealth
Is Long-Term Melatonin Use Putting Your Heart at Risk? Insights, Limitations & Practical Takeaways
Sleep disturbances and insomnia are themselves major cardiovascular risk factors; distinguishing the effect of the supplement from the underlying sleep disorder is critical.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#nightshift #Protein #truenutrition #nightshift #nurse #shiftworker #nursewhowrites
Night Shift Fuel: My Go-To Protein
From chalky whey isolates to overpriced “wellness” powders wrapped in pastel labels — most left me bloated, wired, or worse, disappointed. But one blend has stood out, hands down: True Protein Custo...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The Trouble With Root Cause
Western medicine became what it is today: a system grounded in reproducibility, built on proof, and refined by failure.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#ShiftWorkersParadox #CircadianHealth #BiologicalTrauma #ChronicPerturbation #InflammationCycle #NightShiftScience #OccupationalHealth #MetabolicDisruption #SleepDeprivationScience #NurseWhoWrites #EndothelialHealth
#SystemicInflammation #ScienceAndStory
Perturbation: The Repetitive Trauma of Shift Work
Perturbation (noun): a disturbance of motion, course, arrangement, or state of equilibrium.Shift work isn’t one great trauma. It’s thousands of small ones. A kind of repetition injury—biological, not ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#ShiftWorkScience #CircadianRhythms #NightShiftHealth #SleepDeprivation #ShiftWorkersParadox #SleepAndRecovery #Chronobiology #WorkHealth #FatigueScience #CircadianDisruption
New Study Maps Hidden Lymphatic Drainage Pathways in the Human Brain
Vessels changed orientation by layer (inner, middle, outer dura), suggesting a structured, layered outflow design rather than random channels.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM