L&D ladies who work nights...

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I start in L&D/Mother baby in January as a GN. I will be working 12 hr week nights and haven't done so before. Can you give me any tips on getting myself in the swing of things and how to "turn myself around" when my night shifts are over? Also, I have two kids in school during the year but I dont know what I will do with them during the summer? (They are 8 and 10.) How do you guys do it?

(RE the title: I kind of assumed there arent many guys out there on L&D-sorry!)

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I guess i can forgive the assumption not many of us guys are here in ob- its quite true most of ya are ladies. well, at my hospital, I work 12 hour 3p-3a. I love it. I get off when its(usually) least busy, and get home before the sun comes up so I can get to sleep. Believe me, its easier to stay up until 3am than it is to be our day nurses getting up at 0130 to go to work, then trying to go to bed before most normal people are eating supper. Of course, I can work any 12 hour shift hours as long as I have my 4 days totally off a week.:lol2:

joe, thanks for forgiving the assumption! my unit has two guys on it both of whom are OB scrub techs--they are amazing! i just started can already appreciate having some testosterone on the unit! ;)

anyway, thanks for the imput!

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I also work the night shift in L&D. It can be hard initially if you are not a night person. The best piece of advice I can give is to make sure that you are sleeping enough during the day. Also, if you sleep at night on your days off and you worked the night before, try to get up a little earlier that last day of work so that you can fall asleep that night. Just some tricks I've learned but avoid depriving yourself of sleep!:specs:

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Buy a box fan or a humidifier and turn that sucker up full blast!

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