Quality and Continuity of Care: Shorter or Longer Shifts?

Neonatal care is a highly complex specialized area in medicine and nursing. While evidence is growing to support our interventions, there are still a lot of gray areas. This column “Point - Counterpoint” is meant to evoke more questions than answers, to debate topics from both sides-not suggesting one is right, the other wrong. This issue's topic is: 12-h shifts and the impact on quality and continuity of care. We invite your thoughts.