Night Shift vs. Day Shift Names

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Specializes in med/surg.

Ok this is not night shift vs. day shift, kinda:D

I just wanna know different names that you have heard given to each shift!

I have heard night shift being called vampires :smokin:, night crawlers, children of the night!

I have heard day shift being called... Well I don't know really!

Give some good ones peoples :yeah:

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Specializes in LTC, M/S, CCU, ER.

I call us cave dwellers, since we never see the sun. :)

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I cannot repeat the names that my noc shift crew calls the oncoming day shift one :smokin:

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Specializes in med/surg.

lol:hhmth:

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

Night shift...same thing..or night owls.

Day shift...usually the proper name for a female dog;)

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.

we working internal rotation but the other 'side' of the unit is always 'the dark side ' from your 'home' side

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Day babes.

Night Howls.

LOL

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
i call us cave dwellers, since we never see the sun. :)

the what??

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We called ourselves "The A Team " :D

(day shift was not amused :lol2:)

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Specializes in med/surg.

:nmbrn: That's what I call night shift too! Haha

Day shift, well I am still thinking! LMAO

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Day shift - Cry babies

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
Day shift - Cry babies

OOoooooohhhhh, I like it!!!

Although, I always thought they were more like whiners....

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