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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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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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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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#bookcover #shortstory #nursewhowrites #literaryfiction #read
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

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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
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#shiftwork #nurse #shiftworker #nightshiftnurse
Aging and Age Decline — The Truth About the Book - The Shift Worker's Paradox
I didn’t write it because I had it all figured out. I wrote it because I was falling apart—and wanted to stop.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Between Credentials and Claims: The Functional Nurse and Florida’s Wellness Gold Rush
And while the intent might be genuine—wellness, nutrition, mental health, balance—the machinery behind it is not just about care.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#nursewhowrites #Misinformation #TrustInScience #HealthDebate #HealthPolicy
Between Conspiracy and Cure: What RFK Jr. and Healthcare Get Right—and What They Get Wrong
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become one of the most polarizing figures in modern health discourse. To some, he’s a truth-teller—a whistleblower holding institutions accountable. To others, he’s a dangero...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The Myth of “Alkaline & Acidic Foods”: Why What You Eat Can’t Change Your Blood pH
Spend five minutes on social media and you’ll see the same list of “miracle” foods — lemon water, celery juice, apple cider vinegar, chlorophyll drops, “alkaline” water — all promising to “reset” or “...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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#shiftworker #nutrition #nurse #health
Keep It Simple: My Nutrition Philosophy for Shift Workers
I wrote the book on The Shift Worker’s Paradox. It touches on nutrition—but I’ll be honest, it’s not my primary wheelhouse. There are people who speak on this topic with insane conviction, and they do...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Soft Nursing: When Empathy Becomes a Brand

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Soft Nursing: When Empathy Becomes a Brand
There’s a new kind of nurse making rounds—not in hospitals, but on Instagram. They don't wear scrubs or a badge. They wears flowy linen, sips matcha, and speaks in pastel affirmations about “energy al...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The Paper Boy & The Winter War (Second Edition) —
A collection of short stories by R.E. Hengsterman
Available in print (12.10.25) and ebook (Preorder Now)
#LiteraryNonfiction #CreativeNonfiction #NarrativeNonfiction #EssayCollection #MemoirWriters #NonfictionBooks #LiteraryMemoir #nursewhowrites
Book cover of “The Paper Boy & The Winter War” by R.E. Hengsterman — a haunting winter landscape with snow-drifted houses and a lone paperboy in the distance, evoking memory, loss, and the quiet wars of ordinary lives.
October 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A father, a daughter, and the silence between screens.

From Your Only Fan (Audio sample - full audio on website)— a story about the ache of digital distance, the ghosts we make online, and the love that refuses to look away.

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October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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A moment caught between faith and fatigue, between movement and meaning. Literary fiction for those who read what others scroll past.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM