8 hrs night shift, x5/week

[winter_green]

Just wondering if any of you guys work 8 hours night for 5 nights/week.... How do you do it?? It's different from 12hrs night for 3 nights/week.

I feel like I will always be tired and won't be able to do anything when I'm off....if I do this shift. Any thoughts?

[DreamyEyes]

I did it one summer as a CNA, and I'll never do the 40 hours on nights again (unless it was 7p-7a, but my facility doesn't really give us the option of doing this).

I now work as a nurse on 11p-7a, but I normally work 32 hours (4 nights/wk). For some reason having that extra night off makes a huge difference for me. When I did it 5 nights/wk, I felt like I had NO time off.