What do you guys do to wake up in the morning?

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I live about an hour away from my school and my classes start pretty early...I usually have trouble waking up in the mornings when I get up and as I am getting ready. Also, clinicals at 6:30am are starting soon so any tips would be greatly appreciated..:nurse:

I feel ya! I'm in the same boat. I end up setting 3 or 4 alarms on my cellphone with a few minutes between each alarm. I set each alarm with a different ring tone so it's more jarring.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

It takes me a long time to wake up in the morning too, so strangely enough, the earlier I wake up, the better. It gives me more time to stumble around and figure out what's going on before I do anything like operate a vehicle. And that way I can ease into my day instead of starting out like a horse out of the gate!

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I put my alarm clock across the room so I am forced to get out of bed to turn the alarm off. My TV has a timer on it so that it comes automatically in the morning and I have it set to my favorite Sirius Music Station. After mumbling a few ugly remarks aobut how much I hate getting up early, I head straight to the kitchen for my mandatory cup of coffee. I set the auto-brew timer on my coffee pot the night before so it is waiting for me. I try to do as little as possible in the morning so I set everything out the night before and put all my books/junk next to the door so I don't have to wonder what I might have forgotten. It had taken me years of practice to learn to tolerate getting up early!

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Specializes in None yet.

Yoga and yerba mate

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

coffee. with maybe a shot or two of espresso.

surprisingly a farther commute actually wakes me up more, because it gives me time to collect my thoughts.

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COFFEE. Even if you hate coffee, you will learn to love it. Many replies have said to get up the same time every day; I know this is not always possible (example, I work overnights on the weekends and have to get up at 0600 during the week, plus having evening clinicals...), so just do the best you can, exercise, and take naps whenever possible!! They do wonders when you're dragging (yes, I'm the one you will see showing up to clinical an hour early just to nap in the parking deck! ;))

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I guess I'm the oddball here. I'm a morning person. I've always gone to bed early and gotten up early. Having 4 children, a husband who was a rescue pilot in the military for 28 years and was up by 5am to go fly... throw in years of middle of the night rescue missions. I'm a Birth Doula and gee....babies just don't respect the don't wake me up until 9am rule. Let's talk insomnia...awake every night at 3am.

I'm at least an hour away from school and leave at 7:30 to get to class by 8:45. Right now I get up at 5:30 but in the fall that will move back to 4:30. I have to have coffee and a shower to rev up my motor and to gain reaction time for driving the "highway of death" for 35 miles to school. Thinking I might buy a real alarm clock for fall. :cool:

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COFFEE. Even if you hate coffee, you will learn to love it. Many replies have said to get up the same time every day; I know this is not always possible (example, I work overnights on the weekends and have to get up at 0600 during the week, plus having evening clinicals...), so just do the best you can, exercise, and take naps whenever possible!! They do wonders when you're dragging (yes, I'm the one you will see showing up to clinical an hour early just to nap in the parking deck! ;))

Not true. I've always hated coffee and no amount of waking up early in my real life or in fairy student land will make me like the revolting swill.

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Generally I get up early anyway (sometime between 730 and 8 when I don't have to work or go to school and 630 when I do have work with school in the evening). I set my alarm for 6am. Turn on the TV. Channel surf for half an hour, do little stretches in bed, then at 630 get up and really stretch and do a few "yoga poses" if that's what you want to call them. I walk around for a few minutes. Then I make my bed so I'm not tempted to climb back in the warm sheets. Then shower and all that good stuff in the bathroom. Once I'm dressed, I gather my things and leave at 8am. I know that sounds like a long time (2 hours) but that's why I set the alarm at 6 even though realistically it only takes me half an hour to get ready. Rushing does no one any good because you are sure to forget something. Also taking your time does make everything go smoother which someone else said as well.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Not true. I've always hated coffee and no amount of waking up early in my real life or in fairy student land will make me like the revolting swill.

Same here, I swear I was the only person in the Pacific Northwest that didn't drink it. I tried one of the fancy coffee with like 4 shots of chocolate and it still had that terrible coffee taste. I don't eat anything coffee flavored.

I do love the smell of coffee though.

I see kids drinking it now too, I won't let my kids drink it. The teenager doesn't like that I won't let him but I don't think teens need to be drinking coffee, they have built in caffeine.

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Specializes in Obstetrics.

Sleep? What's that? :-P

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I get up at 5:45 daily. Make sure that your coffee machine is programed so you have fresh coffee waiting when you wake up. Also, most importantly, jump out of bed and go to the bathroom as soon as you hear that alarm. Otherwise, you will just stay in bed and fall back asleep.

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