Dani95rn

Hi everyone I just started working nights a couple of months ago. My sleeping schedule was adjusting fine however now I feel like I fell into another sleep pattern I can't seem to fix and I don't know how it happened. After work I have no trouble falling asleep and staying asleep when I get home around 8-830 am. The problem is on days off. I will go to bed late let's say 3:30-4 am and will always wake up at 6-6:30 am regardless of how tired I feel when I went to bed. I have no idea why that time. I then won't be tired again until mid afternoon where I then catch about an additional 3-4 hours of sleep. All I want on my days off is to sleep past 6 am atleast until 9. Everything is so messed up. It's starting to really frustrate me and starting to effect my life and day to day activities. Any advice on how to fix this??? p.s. melatonin isn't really working for me. Switching to days isn't an option at this time.

Hi everyone it's my first post here. I started my first nursing job a couple of months ago after graduating in May. I'm on orientation and made a mistake regarding oxygen delivery to a patient. I had a COPD patient using her BiPap at night. I gave a nebulizer treatment and attached it to her BiPap mask and connected it to the wall oxygen. Now I know BiPap delivers a certain amount of oxygen in itself. I turned the nebulizer treatment up to about 5 lpm so she was getting the oxygen from nebulizer plus BiPap. I became busy and returned hours later to find that I kept the nebulizer with the oxygen connected to the mask still going. I'm worried I gave her too much oxygen. Patient was alert and fine. Another nurse told me the BiPap would help prevent any side effects of too much oxygen? I don't know if this is true or not. I feel so dumb!!