Are all day shift nurse burnt out and crabby

[Nursesuzi]

I'm just completing my 15 wk orientation on days in L&D. I love L&D. But my experience with 75% of the older nurses on days in L&D and Maternity are they are burnt out, crabby and sometimes down right *****y. Defines eating their young. They talk badly about each other and treat new nurse like hell. Why must nurses have such hard exteriors?. I know nursing is a stressful job, but god help me, if I get that way, kill me. I start night shift in two weeks and cannot wait. I've heard pm and night nurses are a different breed.:angryfire

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

I'm just completing my 15 wk orientation on days in L&D. I love L&D. But my experience with 75% of the older nurses on days in L&D and Maternity are they are burnt out, crabby and sometimes down right *****y. Defines eating their young. They talk badly about each other and treat new nurse like hell. Why must nurses have such hard exteriors?. I know nursing is a stressful job, but god help me, if I get that way, kill me. I start night shift in two weeks and cannot wait. I've heard pm and night nurses are a different breed.:angryfire

Hmmm.... sounds like ALL the OB nurses at my place. Biggest reason I won't float there.

[NurseNora, BSN, RN]

When I was a new graduate working nights, I decided that all 3-11 shift nurses were dumb and all 7-3 nurses were b***hes. When I transferred to 3-11, I was surprized to discover that these nurses weren't dumb at all. The 7-3 shift were the dumb ones and the night shift was surprizingly b***hy. Then I moved to 12 hour shifts and discovered that I tended to think the shift whose mistakes I caught seemed dumb to me and the shift which caught my mistakes seemed b***hy. We're all the same.

I have found that in places where there isn't much turnover and the day shift has been the same for years and years that it is more difficult to break into the inner circle and they seem meaner. This does not necessarily transfer into their patient care however. Just like the rest of life generalizations don't really help much.

Good luck on night shift. I'm working nights again and you couldn't convince me that going back to day shift and making less for working harder is worth it. Yes, I think day shift works harder. In my hospital they have more triage patients, more admissions and discharges, more scheduled procedures and most importantly, they have the "important people" walking around (administrators, DON, etc.). Even with less staff, we aren't quite as busy. More importantly, I think we're more fun! But that's just my opinion.

[KellNY, RN]

Hmmm.... sounds like ALL the OB nurses at my place. Biggest reason I won't float there.

Excellent move resurecting a 33 month old thread to throw a dig at ALL the OB nurses where you are.

Was there anything valid that you wanted to offer to this thread, because I'm genuinely confused as to why a M/S nurse would come onto an OB board to complain about OB nurses in a thread that's been dead for almost 3 years....

:trout:

[SmilingBluEyes]

I agree. Resuscitating an old thread to dig at OB nurses is not necessary. I think the OP is long gone, so may we please retire this thread? Thank you.