Which shift do you prefer, 7pm-7am or 7am-7pm and why?

[f_nurse2b16]

Which shift do you like most of the two?

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

7P-7A... fewer people around to bother me and no management. (I don't work in the hospital any more and work a strict day schedule now but that was why I liked working nights in the hospital.)

[Tragically Hip]

Nights. I do my best critical thinking in the overnight hours, and I prefer the company of vampires and warewolves.

For the reasearch stuff I'm currently involved in (not as a nurse), I have to be there at 8:30 a.m., when the everything gets started, and for logistical reasons, when subjects have to have their screening/doctor visits/infusions/etc. done. Such is life.

[LearningByMistakes]

7p - 7a. Less suits!

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

7p-7a. I discovered this by accident. After orientation I signed up for all evening shifts because there was no competition for them. And then discovered I liked the night shift staff and flow better. You start crazy busy and have your slower hours at the end of your shift. It's less crowded, and I like having some distance from management. The shift diff ain't too shabby either.

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

I am 7pm-730am (we get 30 min break). LOVE night shift because there is less traffic and noise, and more importantly - MORE elbow room!! The fun nurses work @ night too ... oh, did I forget to mention the perk$$$? :)

[wooh, BSN, RN]

7p-7a - 'cause all the cool people work nights!

Yep, it's where the cool kids are!

There's more camaraderie at night. With fewer resources, we all have to pull together to get the job done, and we do. Outside of work life is easier if you work days, but for me, between the money and the people, I'll take the inconvenience to stay on nights.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I prefer night shift because I am naturally a nocturnal person who stays up all night. An added benefit of working night shift is the shift differential that makes my paychecks larger. Also, less families and visitors are around to bother me during nights.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

7a to 7p. I enjoy seeing the doctors and the other support staff. I like interaction with the patient's families. But most of all, I enjoy not gaining the weight that I was putting on from being on nights - both the eating habits at night and the screwed up biorhythms I suffered. Nights just didn't work for me. Loved the people I worked with. Hated the hours.

[FLmomof5]

7p -7a! I love the night shift. You are crazy busy until about 12, but then you can slow down, check charts, clean up stuff not done on days, get things ready for the day shift so their shift is smoother. Get your charting done. Check on your patients simply because you can! :)

I try to work 3 in a row. This gives me 1 day to sleep and then a 3 day weekend every weekend (that my hubby doesn't work....'cause I choose to work that weekend too!)

At my last hospital, I HATED having to wake doc up in the middle of the night, but at this hospital, the PA is the on-call person and the PAs we work with are pleasant! No grief and we get our jobs done and the patient gets tx he/she needs! Another cool thing is when we get a late admit to the floor, the teammates chip in to get all the paperwork done before days comes in! How cool is that?!

[DutchRN09]

Days...it's 14 before I know it. Then lunch and only 5 hours to go. Plus I am a morning person, and I can't stay awake past 2200. Getting up at 0500 is OK.

[RNJill]

12 hour dayshift-I CANNOT sleep for more than a few hours at a time during the day and I love having stretches of days off at a time!

[himilayaneyes]

Definitely 7a. I still have a normal sleep schedule. I used to work nights for two years and the night differential just isn't worth it for me. I'm not cranky like I was when I worked nights...it was getting on my family nerves.