Do you work night clinicals?

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

We are doing Peds/Ob this semester and we have clinical until midnight. I know there are noc shifts when you become a nurse, but is this typical for student rotations? I am having a hard time adjusting; we are at the hospital until 0000 on Tuesdays and then back at the hospital at 0600 Thursdays, its going to be hard for me to go back and forth at first.

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I had night clinicals for a few courses but my goodness we were never there past 10pm. I feel for you!

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This semester I have a mental health clinical from 3-9:30 at night. And then I'm back in class the next morning at 8:30 am.

Not looking forward to this.

Malia

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg, Nursery.

My school doesn't do night clinicals and I wish they did! All of our's are 6:30-4:30 or later. But we're out before 6PM always.

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Specializes in Psych..

My class is given all early clinicals except one group out of our 8 gets evenings. Days go from 6am-2pm, nights go from 2pm-10pm. I was really really hoping that my group would get that later shift...

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i am in the evening section and my clinicals and my clinicals are from 5pm -11.45pm thursdays

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I wish...all of ours are early in the morning, for 4 semesters. I think for psych we may get to sleep in - and not come in until 0800, what a treat. I'd rather go later, then I could study before I go in. When I have to wake up before 6 to go to the hospital all day, the whole afternoon/evening is wasted. Still, switching back and forth isn't going to be easy either. Do you have Wednesdays off at least? I guess you need to try to go to bed right when you get home on Tues, but you'll probably be all keyed up from clinical. Try to get up at a decent hour on Wednesdays so your clock doesn't get completely thrown off, and be tired all day when you don't have to go to clinical.

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We work all shifts during our training.

Including 1-9pm and 3-11pm. If we work on a ward doing 12 hour shifts we do those too including 7pm-7am night shifts. Lucky for me i enjoy doing them .

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Specializes in Neuro, Med/Surg, OB.

This semester in Med/Surg we do 7am-3pm. But later in the year for OB and Psych there will be some night clinicals, and those are 2pm-10pm. I'm looking forward to the night ones b/c we have to be at the hospital at 6am for day clincals! No fun!

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

I understand just how hard this rotation may be physically. But in terms of timing, I don't think it could be better.

Evening shift is in my opinion, the best shift to work for experience in OB and Peds. With our induction-happy society, I believe that more deliveries occur on the evening shift than any other, giving you the greatest opportunity to care for patients in active labor (or C-sections for those whose inductions don't progress), observe deliveries, and care for newborns and moms in the immediate post-partum (or post-op) period.

AS for peds, most children are used to having a bedtime ritual of bathing, cuddling, reading stories, etc. This is a wonderful time to conduct a comprehensive physical and developmental assessment, as well as observe and participate in parent-child interaction.

I have no idea if this is the logic behind the timing of your clinical, or if it was simply a matter of the unit(s) being available in the evening hours, but either way, take advantage of it!

Sleep is highly over-rated!

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Some of our groups have evening clinicals, but that must be hard having both night and morning shifts pretty close together.

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We had night duties starting from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am for almost one month!!!,and we were assigned to Pedia ward!!!That duty experienced was so tiring but amazing in a sense that it was our first time to had duties on night!!!It was tiring for us because we had classes on the morning till noon, and we had only a little time to rest because at 8:00 pm we had to travel at that early time because the hospital we were assisgned was far from our place!!!We had so much sacrifices during our night duties.At first I was feeling sleepy but then I was used to it, and funny huh, I'll miss night duties!!!because during our night duty that's the only time that I was truly appreciated the so-called "midnight snacks".I'll miss also our biult-in C.I.They were accomodating and very approachable!!!Our patients,especially babies,that were so cute and still cute inspite of their intense crying during IVinfusion, hehehe!!!, I'll also miss them, and during our duty at night there was that 4 yr.old patient girl of mine with TB Meningitis that my heart will truly miss!!!She has an MGH order now but due to lack of money, I think so, they still unable to go home.I wish she was able to totally be healthy and able to go home because staying longer in hospital for me is a burden in a sense that you will going to stay there and lie flat on the bed waiting for dischatge!!!...For finale, night duty is very amazing but I guess for poeple who are not used to have a "nonsleepnight" may feel uneasy and may complain!!!but try it,next time, if one of us again will assigned to night duties just be happy,,hehehe be happy for the momoos to see,hehehe joke only!!!....I want night duties again!!Honestly speaking my body is tired of waking early in the morning that's why I prefer to have night duties than mornings inspite of the consequences of having night duties!!!Our next duty is scheduled Wed.-Thu.,8:00am To 5:00pm for almost full month of September.Good luck for our duties!!!.

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