Poll for night shifters

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  1. Do you, a night shifter...

    • 4
      Stay up at night on your off time
    • 5
      Convert back to a daytime life
    • 3
      Something else (please extrapolate)

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Specializes in CMSRN, hospice.

I'm just curious about how many people keep a nights schedule on their days off vs. switch back to days.

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I convert back because of my kids. Translation: I'm perpetually exhausted.

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I would like to keep to a night schedule but what usually happens is I get home from my last shift and can't stay awake so I'll sleep and then I get up in the evening to hang with my family only to fall asleep at their bedtime. Basically I lose a day a week to sleep. I love sleeping so it's not that I hate it but when I'm on my deathbed I'm probably gonna say I slept my life away. :)

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Specializes in geriatrics.

I don't work nights anymore, but I used to.

I found it easier for my sleep schedule to maintain the same schedule on my nights off. I usually went to bed at 0500 am and slept until 1300.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

If I'm off that night I try to nap only until 12-2ish and then go to bed at my normal time.

Granted, even before working nights I don't tend to get sleepy until around 1:00 or 2:00 am so it's not such a huge shift in my sleep schedule.

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