emaz29

Thank you for your response!

Hi everyone! I've read quite a few posts on this same topic but looking for some additional advice... I am a new nurse and started working at my current RN job about 5 months ago. I am in a nurse residency program with about 12 other new RNs. At the end of orientation, we were assigned to units -- I was assigned to float pool with 2 other RNs. One of them got day shift because she had worked as a PCA in the hospital for several years and the other got 11a-11p because she had spoken to the manager about her concerns with commuting. I was assigned 7p-7a even though I had spoken about my concerns with working night shift. I've been working solely nights for about 2 months now and unfortunately find it absolutely miserable I love the job and the work that I'm doing but I'm finding that this shift is affecting my sleep, mood, quality of life, etc. in a bad way. At my meeting with my manager for my 90-day-eval, I brought this up to her and told her how much I'm struggling. I shared with her everything I've tried to do to make this shift work (clump shifts together, melatonin, black out curtains, etc.), but it's just not working for me. She told me to give it a couple more months and then see what we can do. I hate how much I dread going to work just because of the shift. I know 100% that all of my issues would disappear if I worked normal hours. What do you guys suggest that I do? I don't think I can wait 2 more months! Since I never really see my manager (she's in during the day, I'm not) should I email her to set up a time to talk about it more? Email her a detailed message? Should I drop in her office? I know I'm a new grad and I respect the whole seniority thing which is why I've really tried to give it a shot, but it's just affecting my life too much and if she was able to help the other nurses out with schedules to work with them I am hoping she can do the same for me. Thanks for reading -- hope to get some insight from you all!