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| |  Battle of the Shifts!!!
Why is it that every shift thinks the other shifts have "nothing" to do and/or are a bunch of lazy people because so-and-so was wet when they came on?
I work 12 hour shifts so i work days and seconds all in one day and i can tell you that both shifts have plenty to do! But the day shift girls are always complaining about midnights not having enough baths to do or second shift only having to do hall checks. So...
Have you guys experienced the battle of the shifts?
Got any solutions or just a funny story?
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Mar 17, 2009, 07:49 AM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!!
whew! i know how this goes! i work pm shift (2-10) so i hear the round abouts, about what shifts should be doing what better lol although i find morning shift to be very clique and imature....i think thats just how things work.
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Mar 17, 2009, 08:13 AM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!!
I've worked day and night. Before I went to nights I thought days was just being picky and whining because they didn't get paid as much. Wrong! Overnight is the easiest shift ever! If you work 12s you have maybe two hours worth of work to do when you come in and thats if your 12 starts before 8. Anything after 8, its come in and chill. You hang out, wait for the appointed time to go dry everyone, and then come back and chill out for awhile more. You do this for over half your shift, hanging out and getting annoyed when an alarm goes off. Then for the last hour or so you get people up and start whining that days is going to be picky and make comments about how easy your shift is. And they are right!
Days shift is non stop. You come in, get everyone else up, start showers, strip beds, greet family members, take out trash, start feeding the list goes on and on. You work non stop.
Evening comes in and does sim. Get in, start showers, stocking ect.
The only shift that has it easy is overnight.
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Mar 17, 2009, 11:15 AM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!!
That all depends on where you work. Many facilities have residents who are bathed in the evenings- and night shift gets everyone up for breakfast in many places. Depending on the facility- night shift may have mostly sleeping residents, (but some facilities have alot of night owls, or those who need active care around the clock) but day shift may have most of theirs away for some sort of therapy. So- I'd just consider yourself lucky and say that night shift just has it easy *where you work*. It's not a shift thing- it's a facility thing. Originally Posted by sonomala  I've worked day and night. Before I went to nights I thought days was just being picky and whining because they didn't get paid as much. Wrong! Overnight is the easiest shift ever! If you work 12s you have maybe two hours worth of work to do when you come in and thats if your 12 starts before 8. Anything after 8, its come in and chill. You hang out, wait for the appointed time to go dry everyone, and then come back and chill out for awhile more. You do this for over half your shift, hanging out and getting annoyed when an alarm goes off. Then for the last hour or so you get people up and start whining that days is going to be picky and make comments about how easy your shift is. And they are right!
Days shift is non stop. You come in, get everyone else up, start showers, strip beds, greet family members, take out trash, start feeding the list goes on and on. You work non stop.
Evening comes in and does sim. Get in, start showers, stocking ect.
The only shift that has it easy is overnight. | | No. 6 |
Mar 17, 2009, 12:25 PM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!!
Where I work, 7-3 and 3-11 have the same # of showers, and we both give everyone else a partial bed bath. AM has 2 meals to pass out, we only have one. But they get to send a lot of people down to recreation after lunch (that come flooding back at 3:30), plus PT does some of their walks and they have housekeepers around, and we don't. And I guess 3rd shift gets some people up for them, whereas we have to put everyone to bed. But they always have more staff. The only difference is that on days you're busy right up until 3 o'clock, and by 9:30 our shift has usually calmed down a lot. I still don't arrive to work at 3 o'clock and get all huffy because someone has a dirty cup in their room. This is after we took our last hour of downtime to stock the linen cart, stock gloves, get new papers out, etc. for them.
I've never worked 3rd shift but I know people on 1st and 2nd who have and they said it's really easy and they don't know why 3rd complains about every little thing. I know not everyone sleeps through the night, but it's not like all 100 of them are up and jumping when they get there. Even on the nights when a couple people are not in bed, they're still washed, changed, bed taken down, and everything else. They have the same q2h rounds as the other shifts, but with no showers, no meals, no walks, and not many people to get up. But they have more attitude than anyone else. At least that's how it is at my facility.
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Mar 17, 2009, 02:25 PM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!! Originally Posted by sonomala I've worked day and night. Before I went to nights I thought days was just being picky and whining because they didn't get paid as much. Wrong! Overnight is the easiest shift ever! If you work 12s you have maybe two hours worth of work to do when you come in and thats if your 12 starts before 8. Anything after 8, its come in and chill. You hang out, wait for the appointed time to go dry everyone, and then come back and chill out for awhile more. You do this for over half your shift, hanging out and getting annoyed when an alarm goes off. Then for the last hour or so you get people up and start whining that days is going to be picky and make comments about how easy your shift is. And they are right!
Days shift is non stop. You come in, get everyone else up, start showers, strip beds, greet family members, take out trash, start feeding the list goes on and on. You work non stop.
Evening comes in and does sim. Get in, start showers, stocking ect.
The only shift that has it easy is overnight.
Really? I want to come work where you work, then.
I work thirds and I very rarely get to "chill" for even a minute.
Call lights are nonstop, rounds take a long time, and I have to get 8 people up, usually including a couple of showers.
Also have to stock linen carts and pass linens, stock all the rooms, clean wheelchairs and walkers, take out the trash, etc.
If we're LUCKY, we might have 10 minutes of downtime if everyone's asleep, but most of the time, we're just running around like mad.
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Mar 17, 2009, 08:17 PM
Re: Battle of the Shifts!!!
I did work 11-7. Its the easy shift, not the easy life. The shift itself was a no brainer, in my op  . But the coming home, trying to sleep durring the day and missing so much stuff with my friends and fam was a nightmare! I had headaches so freaking bad that never went away no matter how much I was able to sleep in the day. At first I was able to sleep well but with each week it got harder and harder. OTC sleeping pills didn't help at all. My other coworkers described a regimen of switching pills every few months or so to try and sleep. I also heard of prescription pills that did no good for people who had been on the shift a long time. Alot of our day staff has been to nights and come back because of similar issues. Its a hard life but again dry runs and few call lights are, in my op, alot easier then feedings, showers, family members, doctor visits, shopping visits ect ect. I think the reason there is shift differential is because finding people who can adjust to that kind of lifestyle is very hard. We get a ton of workers who start out there, maybe one in five stays more then a month and one in ten more then six months.
Your working 7a to 11p? I take my hat off to you because by the time my shift ends I'm literally crawling out the door with my coworkers. Another four and they'd have to carry me out on a stretcher.
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