You might be a night shifter if...

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You sit through 3 red lights before you realize the car in front of you is broken down, and not just stopped at the light. oops.

Yes!!! It makes me SO mad that McDonald's only serves breakfast at 0800. I just worked 12 hrs- I don't want a coffee and a breakfast burrito- I want a $@&" cheeseburger and some $@"& fries!

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

Burger King sells a ham and cheese croissant with or without a scrambled egg until 10:30 every morning and when I'd not be in a breakfast mood, I'd get one minus the egg. When I used to get one to eat on the way home, I'd add a squirt of Dijon mustard and it tasted soooo good! Now I get a smoothie and some herbal tea with it. Yum!

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I love that this thread is slow during the day, and goes crazy during the wee hours!

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I just cleaned my whole house and vacuumed. Good thing my neighbors are not close! When I first started on night shift I always wanted to vacuum at night but we lived on the third floor of an apartment so I couldn't. Night shifters need detached homes with no close neighbors.

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Specializes in hospice.

For the night shifters wanting burgers at 8:00 a.m., Jack in the Box and Sonic both serve their full menu all day long.

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Now I just need to find a sonic.

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Specializes in ICU.
And God help you if you're trying to talk about something that happened a day ago on night shift.

"Last night. No, not *this* last night, *last* last night."

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I thought I was making perfect sense when talking to a day-shifter about having worked Christmas Eve night and Christmas Day night.

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For the night shifters wanting burgers at 8:00 a.m. Jack in the Box and Sonic both serve their full menu all day long.[/quote']

Omg!!! THANK YOU so much- i never knew that! There's a Sonic that's just a tiny little bit out of the way on my route home- but I'm anticipating quite a few detours in my future!

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.... if you walk into a sleeping paitent's room at 2am and he wakes up justifiably scared to see you standing you over the bed in the dark. He asks "What are you doing?!" You reply: "Just watching you breathe." and then leave the room without another word.

You *might* be a night nurse if it never occurs to you just how creepy that is....

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This may have already been mentioned, but I remember driving home alternating which eye I kept open! Have you ever laid your head down and the hospital supervisor come up to you, you sit up innocently while showing off your bright red forehead? lol

I worked nights for about 6 years.

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If you wake up late for work and just throw scrubs on and run out the door. You forget about doing your hair and makeup. No one important will see you anyways, ans sleep is more important than looking good.

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Specializes in Medsurg, Public Hlth, School Nurse, Acute Rehab.
I know every 24 hour place in my town

The few times I have worked dayshift, I tried to encourage my patient to sleep forgetting it was only 11am

Maybe they SHOULD sleep since they probably stayed up all night anyway... Hahaha

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