Does anyone else like working night shift besides me?

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Hello; I've tried dayshift a couple of times and always retreated back to nightshift. I like the staff. I like the quiet. I like the extra pay. Day's and swing shift have administration, overhead paging, visitors, meals, and doctors to deal with. Each with their own level of anxiety that they cheerfully pass along to the nurses. I've adapted to the sleep cycle and can easily flip from day to night sleeping. I'm just wondering if anyone likes to work nights?

Specializes in Psych, Informatics, Biostatistics.

I love my staff and even some of the patients. I work 3 12s. I love Project Gutenberg's audiobooks, CBC radio overnight, Youtube and Pandora. Next week, I start on a BSN and am planning on doing alot of my work at night. I dim the lights and turn on my internet speakers and am gone. I get paid well to do this.

Listening to this concert tonight: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20090423bgsea

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I must say I spent 6 years trying to find the right shift for me. I also spent my whole school carreer trying to figure out why I was so tired all the time and didnt feel like a normal human being, I cant get up in the morning Im always tired and had a hard time sleeping, however when I started working steady night shift that all changed! I love night shift! I cant imagine working any other shift, I can sleep on this shift, Im not late anymore, I feel like a normal person! I dont know I think some people are just meant to work nights!

:yeah:

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Specializes in Neuroscience/Neuro-surgery/Med-Surgical/.

Too much drama on dayshift.....whether it be the patients, their families/visitors, doctors, procedures, or just the back biting from dayshift co-workers.

Nights is where it's at! Love the shift differential!!!!:)

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When I graduate I definitely want night shift. I love that option we have in this profession.

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Specializes in NICU.

I have worked nights since 1983! I love it.:redbeathe Prior to that, I rotated 8 hour shifts. Day/Evening/Night; also worked straight 3-11 shift for 3 years. Currently I work Weekend Option; 7pm-7am on Fridays and Saturdays; or Fridays and Sundays.

I work in an 85 bed Level III NICU at a teaching and research hospital. The pace at night is perfect for me. We still care for the same critical infants, but don't spend a lot of our shift taking infants for scheduled MRIs, CT scans, UGI series or Swallow Studies, etc. Except for emergencies, these are all done during the day.

I've been in the NICU during day shift, and it's like a different world. You have doctors making rounds, consults, OT, PT, Speech, or Child Life coming to work with your baby, plus taking them to the OR for any surgeries. At night, we do emergency surgeries in the NICU, at the baby's bedside.

Parents and family members come in and out of the NICU all day, starting at 0830, which we welcome. It's a time for them to meet their baby's doctors and ask questions. On the Weekend, we have a lot of family members come that can't be there during the week, especially if their baby has been in our NICU for months.

The slower pace means they can do more hands-on care of their infant. We have time to sit with them, explain what's been going on, and help them bathe their babies, rock them and cuddle them.

Nights are the perfect shift for me.

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Specializes in med-surg, teaching, cardiac, priv. duty.

Evenings or nights is what I primarily worked. I am a natural night owl. I come alive at night. I could not adjust to day shift because it seems against by body's natural rhythm. I had a private duty position for a couple years that required day shift in the summer. These 2 summers were just terrible for me. You would think that as the summer went on that my body would have adjusted to day shift and it would have gotten easier for me. In fact, the opposite happened! As the summer progressed, I was increasingly exhausted and unable to function. By the end of summer, I had reached the end. If the shift hadn't been switching back to evenings, I would have had to have resigned the position.

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I love night shift. I like the chart checks. I like the time with patients. I like that there is not so much going on as far as ancillary stuff.

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Specializes in CVICU, Neuro ICU.

I agree with everyone!!! No physical therapy messing my patient up in bed right after he is turned! No skin team insisting I disturb my resting patient Right Now so they can "assess" their bottom. Too much dayshift drama for me!!!

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

I ADORE it.

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I love nights. I have no intention to ever go to days. It works with my body. I come form a long line of night owls. When I trained on days I felt like I was walking through a fog!

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Specializes in critical care, PACU.

I love love love nights. I sleep better during the day and Im not tired and night. And my crew rocks.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

I love my peers too!!! We are very close, help each other and can have fun on down time. I hate it when any of my group goes to day shift... those deserters!!!!!;)

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