hilc1

I have worked both. I am not young, nor do I have children. I hated night shift. I felt unsafe for patient care, I was crabby on my days off and I couldn't get out of bed until 2pm, even if I had several days off in a row. I would wake up around 2 am on my 'days' off and couldn't go back to sleep until around 730/8am. I felt in despair all the time, my relationship suffered, I had no energy to exercise and I neglected myself, my partner, friends and animals. It all depends on how your body takes it. They tell us as nurses that we need to take care of ourselves too. I refuse to work nights and have given up otherwise great positions to take straight days. Days are busy, but I like that. Makes it go by quickly. Sure you have to deal with administration, dietary etc etc, just depends on if you can handle all the extra commotion on top of caring for your patients. If you have a good team then there's teamwork no matter what shift you work on.