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.

Specializes in ICU.

You haven't seen your boss in 2 months...and that's ok! ;)

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

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.

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I've done this

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You go outside at 3pm in your pajamas to check the mail

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Specializes in ICU.
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!

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Specializes in ICU.
You haven't seen your boss in 2 months...and that's ok! ;)

Not just "OK", but a GOOD THING.

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Specializes in HIV, Psych, GI, Hepatology, Research.
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 :rolleyes:

I used to do this very same thing, lol.

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You become disoriented with time,place and person=)

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Your body prefers night shift so strongly, you have intense difficulty switching back to days--Circadian Rhythm, my ***!

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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

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Specializes in ICU, Med-Surg.

Can say the alphabet starting in the middle

I love me some night shift, but what?!

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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?"

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