The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss ...

Late Shift ”, a slight and simple drama about one nurse’s torrid night at the hospital, makes that clear, if it wasn’t ...

There’s a thin, squiggly tattoo running down the forearm of diligent hospital nurse Floria, always visible past the short ...

An elderly woman dies, and her three adult sons cling to each other, weeping, before turning on the duty nurse. She hadn't ...

If you've ever spent time at a hospital, you know how incredibly hard working and dedicated nurses are. And how essential ...

My wife’s sister and her husband have for years both worked third shift (a.k.a. “the graveyard shift”), and they seem to be ...

According to a recent study, there will be a massive shortage of 40,000 nurses in Switzerland by the year 2040. This shocking ...

Petra Volpe‘s “Late Shift” – which plays at this year’s Special Gala in Berlin – plunges into the high-pressure world of an understaffed Swiss hospital, unfolding close to real-time ...

Paying tribute to an underappreciated profession, Late Shift offers a portrait of workaday courage, not least when Floria mouths off to a surgeon on behalf of a patient who feels abandoned.

Occasionally, as we follow her through the exhausting nighttime rounds that make up “Late Shift,” we catch a glimpse of the ink and wonder what it is, what it means, what it says of this woman ...

But the nurse flinches. It’s true. There are just two of them on the late shift and a full ward of 26 patients: Even in Switzerland, which has arguably the best health service in the world ...