Nurses General Nursing
Published Jan 15, 2013
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.
sapphire18
1,082 Posts
You haven't seen your boss in 2 months...and that's ok!
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
10 Articles; 18,362 Posts
After 20 years on nights, having trnsitioned to days for ten years, you still pull all nighters when you really have to crank out the work glad for the night time solitude.
Your best friend on nights is town nightshift policeman willingly sharing your cofeepot, especially after returning escaped geriatic Houdini.
racheltrulock
3 Posts
I've done this
You go outside at 3pm in your pajamas to check the mail
CrufflerJJ, BSN, RN, EMT-P
1,023 Posts
you stand patiently waiting at the elevator at 730 am. someone else walks up and actually pushes the down button....
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I occasionally find myself using my badge to try and "swipe" the elevator door, or bathroom door, or other doors without the ability to read swipe badges. Autopilot...a scary thing!
Not just "OK", but a GOOD THING.
shamrokks, ADN, ASN, RN
366 Posts
I've had whole conversations with people who called my phone during the day when I was sleeping and forgot to silence it, and then totally forgotten the entire conversation. Apparently I can hold up my end of the conversation pretty well though - only my mom can tell when I'm sleep-talking
I used to do this very same thing, lol.
danielle5454
35 Posts
You become disoriented with time,place and person=)
SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN
4 Articles; 2,058 Posts
Your body prefers night shift so strongly, you have intense difficulty switching back to days--Circadian Rhythm, my ***!
Rhi007
300 Posts
When your friends call you a vampire
When you play with the PA while singing elvis
You hide in an empty cubicle and jump out at a doctor passing by nearly making them **** themselves
Can say the alphabet starting in the middle
Have NASCAR wheelchair races using the ED as the track
Intentional
27 Posts
I love me some night shift, but what?!
rikkitikki
16 Posts
You can see in the dark better than most.
Oh gosh, I never put 2 and 2 together on that one until my apartment building lost power one night while my boyfriend was in the kitchen. I basically went on a rescue mission to save him from slamming into the coffee table, the chairs, the walls. "What, you didn't see the couch? It's right there! What do you want the flashlight for?"