Are you one permenant nights?

Chiaramonte · Feb 17, 2003

Welcome to Mushroom Land!!

WalMart_ADN · Feb 17, 2003

ahh welcome british student!!!...........but don't let anyone else in on our secret......... :roll:

RNforLongTime · Feb 17, 2003

Oh, I too work straight nights and for pretty much the same reasons. No annoying family members, doctors, students, therapists, social workers, etc. No running to CT scan with your intubated pt when ya gotta take 3 people with you, BIG messes there. Not too many meds to give. In general, patients sleep on night shift but that's also when some of them start to get really wacky!! Or the day shift tells you, they were FINE all DAY and then you go to assess them their BP is in the toilet and all he!!n breaks loose! I work in critical care so that is a common occurence for me. PLUS We get paid more on nights, for me, it averages out to an extra 2 bucks/hr to work nights. Never again will I work day shift!

chicagonurse · Feb 17, 2003

I love nights and would never work another shift. I work with the friendliest most helpful staff I am so lucky. Days on the other hand has problems-too many bosses, doctors, PT, OT, and worst of all families. Is it just me or are the family members worse than the patients?

WalMart_ADN · Feb 17, 2003

in pediatrics....the family members are definately worse than the patients...

KC CHICK · Feb 17, 2003

I love nights too! Would NOT go to days....

But, you guys are making sound like we don't do anything on nights. Like it's nothing but gravy.

EVERYONE ASLEEP??? HAH!! I just don't know what to say to that. I've had plenty of patients that want me to "fluff their pillows", among other things, after MN. Do you all have a special pill that you give everyone at night to knock 'em out?? Whatever it is, we don't have it!!

Night shift, where I work anyway, gets more admissions than day shift by far. We had at least 7 admits on our shift last night. Not to mention the patient that expired at 2AM. (Guess we had 1 discharge.)

Anne (can you tell I had a busy night??) :nurse:

WalMart_ADN · Feb 17, 2003

Anne....

i do'nt know what it is, but it is a rarity for one of the kids to be awake during the night. i'm not saying we don't do anything, we have PLENTY to do, but for the most part we can sneak around and do it while the kiddos are sleeping. We are especially busy when we have little babies on the floor with no parents staying with them....why is it they are always all hungry at the same time?

and it just so happens to be the same time you have 3 abx. due and chemo to hang?

Trauma Columnist · Feb 17, 2003

Well, as an ER nurse, we are stinkin busy at noc - especially full moon nights!!!

KC CHICK · Feb 17, 2003

It's the elderly.....believe me. THEY DON'T SLEEP!

And being on a telemetry floor makes it extra busy. I don't mind. I just don't want others to get the WRONG impression. We are just as busy, if not more so, than our day shift.

Yes, trauma, I know. If ER's busy, We're busy. One definately affects the other.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Feb 17, 2003

I've worked nights over 11 years and won't go back to days. But I don't like nights because patients sleep!

I like nights because there are no MDs, management, and most of the family members have left. We nurses run that place at night!

911fltrn · Feb 17, 2003

I work E.R. also. Work the old rear off. CLean house so days can sit on their rears for the first few hours of their shift. Of coorifice its packed when we walk back in the door. Nights is the only shift for me. I have no tolerance for managers who cant take care of patients. They have no tolerance for being around at night!:) I also believe the night shift has better teamwork!