Would you switch to nights for alot more money?

[Maco]

I work dayshift and have for over 4 yrs now on a surg floor. I have tried nights and at first loved then but after several months started to hating to go to work.I was ok once I got there and actually loved the people I worked with but it was almost like I was getting depressed. All I wanted to do is sleep all the time.So I went back to days. Now there is a flex position open and pays alot more money-15 more on the hour.I would also get more experience because I would be working all over the hospital.The problem is it is nights. Im scared that I will get like I was before-depressed...but for that much more money maybe I can get over it..lol. Any advice!!

[bumble bee 15]

Do not repeat chapters for the ending of the story never changes. If u didnt like it the first time what makes you think you will like the 2nd time around. The money sounds great but may not bring you happiness as you mentioned when u worked nights you were depressed. just keep in mind you are too blessed too be stressed especially it if it's for a couple of dollars.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

I'm a night person, so yes.

[mmmc2]

I'm a night person, and I loooove working nights. But whoever says that nights are easier than days is waaaayyyy off. I've done both so I know. To me, days were easier. Patients often left for tests, PCTs are there to help, families visit and occupy the patients. On nights, we have no PCTs or CNAs, same patient load (or greater), constantly have to wake patients to do labs, meds, vitals, etc. So of course, the patients' sleep schedules get screwed up and they are often up all night.

I wish I got paid $15 more to do nights, I only get $3 more per hr. But hey, I am a night person so I would take it even if there was no shift differential.

[rn4ever?]

No. There are many things money can't buy I believe.

[RNandRRT]

I have been doing nights since 1993 and there is NO amount of money that could ever make me do days. Not only do I get to work with a great group of people, but they actually pay me MORE to do it. How awesome is that?

[RNMLIS]

I am a night person but I cannot work nights - go figure!

303AM

I worked in LTC alone in my unit It is lonley working alone with sleeping aides An awful lot of walking the whole unit and covering 45+ residents

This was an 8 hour shift - I wonder if I would have managed better if the shifts were 12 hour shifts with more time to recover.

spllit shifts were also part of the deal making it even harder to recover

Considering the mental and physcial state I was in when I left...

Never again

[Tait, MSN, RN]

I am a night person but I cannot work nights - go figure!

303AM

I worked in LTC alone in my unit It is lonley working alone with sleeping aides An awful lot of walking the whole unit and covering 45+ residents

This was an 8 hour shift - I wonder if I would have managed better if the shifts were 12 hour shifts with more time to recover.

spllit shifts were also part of the deal making it even harder to recover

Considering the mental and physcial state I was in when I left...

Never again

It sounds like nights there was rough. I found 8 hour nights to be awful, once I switched to 12's and hit a busier urban hospital I was set :)

Tait

[cjcsoon2bnp, MSN, RN, NP]

If you really don't like nights then I probably wouldn't do it no matter how much more money they offer you. I know personally that as much as I love the department I'm in right now I would NEVER (and I mean NEVER) do days. I have been asked and I apologize but I make it a point that I won't work any time between 7 AM - 3 PM because I don't like anything about how day shifts. In general the day shift is a lot slower and I don't have much in common with the older staff who tends to work on days.

!Chris

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

In one word

NO!

my peace of mind and sleeping changes are not worth the extra money....

IMO

otessa

I have worked nights and wouldn't go back for ANY amount of money.

[RNandRRT]

I have to say that for myself and many other night shift personnel, we are very grateful that the people who adamantly abhor night shift don't come to night shift.

This world takes all kinds.

[Caffeine_IV]

Umm..yeah. I'd do it for $8 extra an hour lol! I love night shift.

[anonymurse]

The first thing you want out of ANY change to working conditions is personal sustainability, your own ability to hang with your job. Will the change burn you out? If so, ignore all other considerations: you don't want that change.