Double Shifts

Nurses General Nursing

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For anyone else out there that works double shifts (16 hours) at times and has to be back in 8 hours, how do you wind down enough to go to bed when you get home? I get off at 2330 (in theory), home around midnight, but it can take me an hour or more to wind down some nights, leaving me with MUCH less than 6 hours of sleep.

Thanks!

I guess I'm blessed. I walk in strip off my clothes and I'm out. However I have close to an hour drive time and I tend to decompress on the way home listening to an audio book.

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Specializes in Transitional Nursing.

I'm getting ready to get a couple hours of sleep to go in and do 7am to 11pm. I'm being mandated because I was out sick on a Friday, and Friday is considered a weekend. Apparently, they not only make us make it up but they force us to do a double if they want.

It wasn't even my weekend, I'm just scheduled every friday. I'm so mad I could spit.

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