You might be a night shifter if...

Nurses General Nursing

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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.

you can dance "gangham style" in the nurses station and not get in trouble for it......
that is my favorite!! We have so much fun on the night shift :)))))))
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Specializes in ICU, Med-Surg.
Haha definitely do that. But apparently not all the time. Once my sister called during the day and I thought the conversation sounded like this:

"Hello?"

"Hey, what's up?

"Hello?"

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Hello!"

"I said hi! What do you need!"

She told me later that, instead of saying, you know, words, I was just groaning like Frankenstein's monster. So it was more like:

"Hello?'

"Grraaaa."

"Hello?

"Grrrraaaaaaaaa."

"Hello!"

"GRAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

I spit out my soup when I read that- LOL

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Specializes in ICU, Med-Surg.

You are called at all hours of the day to pick up shifts!

If I haven't slept yet and I answer the call, I can't come to work in the next 4 hours. If I worked last night I'll be asleep when you call. I'm all for picking up the occasional shift, just give me some notice!

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Specializes in L&D/Maternity nursing.
you can dance "gangham style" in the nurses station and not get in trouble for it......

Yessssssss!

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma.

You occasionally find yourself stopped at a big red thing waiting for it to turn green... Until you eventually realise that "red thing" is a STOP sign and prooooooobably won't be changing color any time soon. :\

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Gosh, I wish I could do that. It seems pretty impossible. To, like, totally turn the radio up from 10 to eleven. My fave song: "Spirit of Radio," Rush.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.
....when, after three decades on the night shift, every phone conversations with your relatives starts out with the obligatory "I'm not waking you up, am I?" (they've all experienced my 3am call 'just to chat' - it keeps them honest!)...

Did this to hubby. He asks me to help with yardwork at 10-11am. I said "Fine, but I am going to get you up to mow the lawn at 0230am so you know how I feel about it."

He never made that mistake again.

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hiddencatRN, what is "gangham style?"

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you can dance "gangham style" in the nurses station and not get in trouble for it......

We had a very confused Cantonese speaking patient who was agitated. Nobody could communicate with him, had him sitting at the station with us. He tried to get up and I finally just let him... I randomly started teaching him how to do gangham style!! He laughed and laughed and we danced a while. Then the doctor walked up on us and said "guess we don't need the haldol anymore!" Hahahah nice.

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Specializes in APRN, ACNP-BC, CNOR, RNFA.

You turn your car on to "warm it up" before driving off, only to be woken up by someone getting off at 3pm, because you slept in your car, during the entire day shift. I now have the "smokers" knock on my window if I'm still in the parking lot when they go on their first "smoke break" at 10am.

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Indy and wooh, I'm cracking up laughing right now. You get it. I love that.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

You know you're night shift when you get to clean up the warm, stale food left over from day shift's party.

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