What's your favorite "Done with a ton of shifts in a row" routine?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

What is your "woo hoo, I'm off work" transition routine? Mine is to sing to the radio on the way home like a maniac, hop on the treadmill for awhile, clean up, and go out somewhere fun with friends/hubby/both. We love to have weekend sangria parties with a seafood boil around this time of year too, just a few friends being relaxed and having fun! What's yours?

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Reintruducing the wife to the business (after a shower of course).

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Specializes in PICU/NICU.

A bottle of wine in a bubbly tub!

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

pack up a cooler with some lemonades, some watermelon, and some snacks, put on a bathing suit, grab a towel and plop myself on the beach.

there is nothing i love more than floating around in the ocean to help relax and then taking a nice nap in the sunshine listening to the waves. i am truly blessed to live in florida.

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Specializes in neurotrauma ICU.
pack up a cooler with some lemonades, some watermelon, and some snacks, put on a bathing suit, grab a towel and plop myself on the beach.

there is nothing i love more than floating around in the ocean to help relax and then taking a nice nap in the sunshine listening to the waves. i am truly blessed to live in florida.

awwwwwwwwww jeez, quit bragging!!!;)

I just came back from vacation in Florida and, yes, you are truly blessed to live there! what a great routine!

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Mine generally involves some drooling. I like to play it by ear from there.

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Specializes in ER.

Shower, book, bed. And not too much of the book either.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
awwwwwwwwww jeez, quit bragging!!!;)

I just came back from vacation in Florida and, yes, you are truly blessed to live there! what a great routine!

I have a bug of jealousy as well...but am sincerely happy that many of our members don't live in the concrete jungle that I reside in.

I have to come home, call some of my nursing mentors and shoot off about the interesting things or situations that angered and frustrated me throughout the day. A bit of gossip is fine, too. Of course, I come here to see how everyone else faired throughout the day, and then, I read or watch documentaries.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Since I work evenings, I'll come home at the end of a stretch and play on the computer for a couple of hours, chat with my son or my sister if they're up, read in bed for a while, then sleep a little later the next day. In the summer, if it's been really hot, I might go out and sit in the pool for a while or take a cool, refreshing shower. But seeing as how we're better than 60 miles from the coast, no beach walks :cry:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Home Health.

SLEEP. And sleep some more. :sleep::sleep::sleep::sleep:

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.

Sometimes breakfast with my coworkers if it is the end of the week for everyone, come home, dawdle about the house and then fall asleep on the couch watching my Tivo'd shows.

Tait

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Clean house then lots and lots of sleep!

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