AmazonJaneRN

I can't believe this is even a real question. I don't sit down at night, just like I didn't sit down during the day. Maybe there are less family obligations, BUT, on the other hand, there is less staffing in general, our hospital pharmacy closes at night (so we have to enter our own medications in the PYXIS, mix them, order them if we can using standing orders) because the MD's are not around and God forbid you have to wake one of them up for ANYTHING. Also, our day ratio for the stepdown unit I work on is 4:1, night shift ratio is minimum of 5:1 with a more common ration of 6 or even 7:1 ratio depending on the available staff. (someone call in? Well, you can each just take an extra patient or two, and we'll send over a 2nd CNA for the floor, that solves the problem!) Night shift easier? GET OVER YOURSELVES, DAY NURSES!

I am a licensed massage therapist as well as a RN, BSN from a very well respected Christian university and have a few years of MICU/SICU/CCU experience as well as med surg/cardiac stepdown exp. (woo, for me right, all that and 10 buck buys me about 2.5 gallons of gas, lol. my lil sis the bartender makes twice what i do) But anyhoo, all that just to hopefully lend credibility and background to my answer concerning your back issues. 1) Rotations, occasional shifts in OR = (at my hospital anyways) CRNA gets a stool or chair. >80% cases 2) You'll get downtime. no worries, it's not med surg nursing where u are literally standingrunningwalking all day and truly forget to eat, sit, or pee. 3. Soooo many options to address this pain issue. Ask your physician for his/her helpfor treating this.