Hi, I've never been late or absent for the past 6 months Ive been working in our unit as a staff nurse. Tonight I slept on time and woke up at 6:57Am for a 6am shift. It was seriously terrible. They texted me twice and when i texted back, my senior nurse told me they finally have a floater to replace me and told me to go on possible PM today. I told my senior nurse I didn't wake up on time and was absolutely apologetic.
Now my manager told me to text our department manager because I would be considered absent today.
It really stings a lot because thats one day worth of minus paycheck! Ugh.
Ive always been a very punctual person and would come even an hour before my shift starts. It was absolutely messed up.
I cant believe I caused some panic at the unit because I was absent. Just darn it.
How do I cope with it and have a face to face people tomorrow?
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I use my phone as an alarm and keep it charged at all times. I'm retired, but on the rare occasion when I need to get up early in the morning, I set two alarms---one, half an hour before I have to wake up so I can take my thyroid medication, and the second when I actually need to be up. I like squeezing in that little bit of "extra" sleep. I also use a really obnoxious alarm tone that goes on and on until I shut it up, by which time I'm wide awake! It's not foolproof, of course, but when I was working it only failed me a couple of times.
You'll be OK, almost everyone on earth has overslept at some point. It's no big deal, just don't make a habit of it and everyone will get over it. Hugs.
Never is a strong word. But, yeah, I was never late due to "oversleeping."
However, I have come to work, and my co-workers would be like, "what are you doing here? You're not on the schedule."
Now that you mention it, I did show up once for work when I wasn't scheduled. I don't remember the circumstances of how that happened, but everyone got a kick out of it at my expense.
I feel same way. Always early to point when I come in just on time everyone is already thinking something happened to me.
But..I wake up at 0330 so no way is this happening without an alarm and I overslept once last summer. I work in prison so there is not a replacement. The staff you have is staff you have so we just do more and help one another out.
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I use my phone as an alarm and keep it charged at all times. I'm retired, but on the rare occasion when I need to get up early in the morning, I set two alarms---one, half an hour before I have to wake up so I can take my thyroid medication, and the second when I actually need to be up. I like squeezing in that little bit of "extra" sleep. I also use a really obnoxious alarm tone that goes on and on until I shut it up, by which time I'm wide awake! It's not foolproof, of course, but when I was working it only failed me a couple of times.
You'll be OK, almost everyone on earth has overslept at some point. It's no big deal, just don't make a habit of it and everyone will get over it. Hugs.