You may have seen this before...One Good Night!

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Specializes in cardiac, diabetes, OB/GYN.

Just for fun to those of you who can certainly relate...

One Good Night!

Sanity and lightening speed

are precious commodities indeed.

Delivery suite abounds with noise,

AND little girls, AND little boys,

Staffing is in disarray,

and spiraling downward

night to day.

Those remaining try their best,

but staffing is a nightly test.

Supplies, at best, are out of sight,

(as WE discover, night to night)

How much more can one nurse do,

already saddled with the work of two?

All my nights run into days,

less rare sleep; fatiguing haze.

Lately it's been hard to know

if days will come so I can go.

I'm tired of this crazy pace

and fairly sick of the no win race-

I REALLY want to be a nurse,

but I think delivery might kill me first...

My health is shot; my spirit too,

paralleling staffing, ooooo.........

I see no anectdote in sight,

and all I want is ONE GOOD NIGHT!

written on a VERY busy CRAZY night shift

October 22, 1996

by: Martha Crownishield O'Brien RN

Sounds like my last week!!!!! To say the least the Full moon myth is very true....

Ahh, but I am off tonight...

Very nice, I enjoyed it thanks for the post!~

I have never worked LD, but I have worked many nights!

Great poem, thanks for sharing it!

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