You know you work nights when.......

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The conversation with coworkers each night starts with "I got x amount of sleep today..."

Specializes in NICU.
When you roll over at 0500 on your nights off and cackle to yourself, because you can roll over and go back to sleep!

:bugeyes:

I especially love doing this when I hear that the night I'm off is a 'night from hell'. And I missed it!:sleep:

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My night shift supervisor is building a brand new house with no windows in the master bedroom!! :sleep:

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Specializes in CTICU, Interventional Cardiology, CCU.
you come home from work at 8 am and unwind with a cold beer and the cable guy looks at you funny:lol2:

haha I just did this the other day! when the cable guy came to set up my HDTV service!! hahahaha In fact I am drinking one right now cause I just got home from a 15 hour shift....it's 10 am..

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Specializes in Staff nurse.
My night shift supervisor is building a brand new house with no windows in the master bedroom!! :sleep:

Gosh, wouldn't that be a fire hazard? To call a room in the basement a bedroom it must have an egress window. I bet it doesn't pass inspection.

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You wake up and the clock says 10:00. You have no idea if that is day or night. You wonder if you came home from work and fell asleep in the morning or just woke up from a nap and must report to work in a few hours.

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Specializes in cardiac ICU.

...when you fantasize about people who only ever work day shift being told that they MUST be present at a staff meeting/inservice/whatever. At precisely...3 AM.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Fresh out of nsg school I had a NM who would have her staff mtgs at 0730, 1530, and 2200. Now THAT, we could live with. She was a great NM.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Transplant.
My night shift supervisor is building a brand new house with no windows in the master bedroom!! :sleep:

:up::lol:

That's me in my fantasy world... God love Him/Her for that, & thanx for the chuckle...

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your boyfriend comes home at lunch and you are talking in your sleep about blood pressures :yeah:

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...you get today and tomorrow confused.

When you hold cogent, pleasant phone conversations with numbnuts who call you at noon and later have absolutely no recollection of speaking with them.......

:bugeyes:

I do that all the time, except I'm never coherent!

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Specializes in Oncology.

When you actually manage to fall asleep at a relatively normal hour on your night off, but wake up at 0200 cause it's "lunch" time and your stomach is growling.

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Specializes in ER.
Hey I was wondering about that do u get paid for an extra hour or does it even out because later on in spring the clocks go forward???

I worked an extra on time change night once in my 2nd or 3rd year of nursing. It was a pediatric ED on Halloween night, on a Saturday, fun for everyone. When I got my pay they didn't give me the extra hour because "that's just how we do it here." I have rarely been so angry. That was back when I still believed that management wanted to treat us fairly. Today I wouldn't even feel surprised.

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