Working Overnight?

mrsjlang · March 2016

Anyone else working overnights?

Ally0221 · March 2016

Yep! 7p-7a. I'm an ER RN

comealongponds · March 2016

I work shifts but I self schedule so in a six week period I work 10 days and 10 nights in whatever pattern I please...all 12h shifts.

NatashaSprout · March 2016

I'm fire department so I work 24 hour shifts. Usually up all night long!

mrsjlang · March 2016

Are your boss' giving you a hard time about your "situation"?

comealongponds · March 2016

Mine's been lovely thus far. I shot her an email the other day updating her on my situation and she marked me off as sick for two weeks and said I don't need paperwork if I can go back after that. I'm an RN on a young floor though, so they're used to KU nurses and stuff.

NatashaSprout · March 2016

I won't be telling the fire department until June. I have to suck it up and do the job or go on medical. So we haven't told a soul. Not one friend, family member, or co-worker. If it comes to a point where I don't feel I can be safe then I will go off earlier.

mrsjlang · March 2016

Fair enough. I do Night Audit, so I had to get schedule modifications while we were dong IVF. So my immediate managers knew something was going on. I don't think she was trying too, but my mgr talked to me the other day about protocol (which is fair) but made me feel like I was inconveniencing the whole team. Ugh.

vinylrecs · March 2016

I don't have recurring night shifts, thank goodness! But sometimes I am working overnight attending births (I am a doula), and I am really worried about how that's going to go when it does happen. How have you been coping with being up all night with the fatigue and other symptoms of pregnancy? My "shifts" as such are almost always at least 12 hours of being totally on with little opportunity for breaks, and at least a third of the time I'm up all night. More often than not I'm with families for even longer that that if this is the client's first baby.

mizard2012 · March 2016

I am also a 7p-7a ED RN.

nancydamien · March 2016

Yes, I work in the ED with the CT department. 10-6:30 AM.

ICUnurse09 · March 2016

I'm also working 7p - 7a. Finally going to day shift in April after four years on nights.

murray1030 · March 2016

7p-7a Critical care RN here too! I am getting nervous on how I'm going to manage the caffeine problem. I drank a half caf today. Any suggestions?

ICUnurse09 · March 2016

I've been drinking a cup at work every night. Gotta keep the brain functioning! From what I've read, it's safe as long as your intake is less than 200 mg. How long have you worked in critical care?

mrsjlang · March 2016

I went from a ton of coffee a night to like one tiny one very couple of days. The cravings just turned off once we had our transfer. I've been chugging water like crazy though, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.