[night owl]

It's incredible! just went down stairs to use their xerox machine and everyone of their staff members is sound asleep, all wrapped up in blankets and "Mouth Wide Open." They just don't care about why they are here. Should something happen....................I pity them! I'm sure they'd cover it all up somehow. I am so glad I don't work with that crew... This is on a nightly basis! You'd think someone would want to be alert and functioning. Snoozing is one thing, but not everyone at the same time...

"Hello?," the clue phone...it's for you!"

[itsme]

Sounds like the perfect time for a fire drill!! That would wake them up!

[ERNurse752]

hehe...or a good time to run in and start shaking them, yelling, "Code Blue!!!!"

[NS_RN]

My Gawd...what type of unit is it?? All of them? Wow.Good time for nsg supervisor to do a round,eh??
Anyhooo...on my 34 bed med unit, we have a few RN's who just can't seem to make it thru the nite shift without a nap....drives me nuts. They will go in the family room to take a nap. Of course, that is when thier patients always need a pain med or an aerosol.
I NEVER sleep on nites...I'd feel gross if I did. And I have young kids and never get a nap before night shift...these nurses have no reason not to sleep all day before thier nites if they wish.
Arghhhhh.

[passing thru]

In my hospital, I'd say 30 % of staff sleeps a full hour at night. 1/3 of staff is agency. agency does not sleep, they would get fired. nor do they snitch if they know what is good for them. staff sleeps, and supervisors know it...they look the other way.As they say, "what happens on night shift STAYS on night shift."

[ChainedChaosRN]

A year ago, almost to the date, I paid a "surprise" visit at 3:30am to my LTC facility. I found 5 people sleeping, the first I found was the nursing supervisor sleeping at the nurses station. I had to shake her shoulder to wake her up.

The CNS's I fired of course filed union grievances. Only one went to arbitration, she lost, the termination held and was valid. Amazes me how someone can sleep on the job and think they shouldn't be fired. Ignorance shows no boundaries.

I continue to make random "surprise" visits. It's no longer an issue. Thank God for the patients.

Dawn

[jacolaur]

I would take a picture, blow it up nice and big and send it to them, maybe send a copy to the supervisor, post one at the lunch room entrance, heck maybe even the lobby....***..everywhere...

[passing thru]

I would have to have a camera that did not flash. You do not understand. Everyone ""KNOWS"". except ceo

[eltrip]

Not sleeping on the job is usually in the employee handbook. Wherever I've worked, it's one of the grounds for immediate dismissal, for any position.

[RainbowSkye]

You know what? I think you have a responsibility to report this to whoever you need to report it to. I know it's hard to be the bad guy, but if anything would ever happen to one of the patients because a nurse was sleeping... If you're a licensed person, I think you actually have a legal responsibility to do so.

I don't think sleeping on the night shift should be tolerated (go Chaos!) except during the 30 minute lunch break time. Generally staff is paid a premium for working nights (at my little podunk hospital it's $3/hour) so I would expect them to be awake at work.