You know you work nights when.......

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The conversation with coworkers each night starts with "I got x amount of sleep today..."

this is great LOL soo funny as ive worked the midnight shift so many times and am considering do the same when i work as a nurse (find a job).

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
when you and your co-workers go out for breakfast and you're the only ones having a burger and a beer at 8 am ;)

when you know all the winos at the favorite breakfast place for your unit. because you're sitting at the bar with them at 0800. (although in our case it was usually omlettes and mimosa's or bloody marys!)

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.
When you look like something out of The Fall of the House of Usher while volunteering as a chaperone on your child's zoo field trip......

Heck, sometimes I look like that just taking him to school the next day!!

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Specializes in ENT, UROLOGY, PLASTIC/BURN.

You fall asleep with gum in your mouth watching regis and kelly................and now you have bangs

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When putting Bailys on your muslie seems like a good idea, actually it tastes pretty good..., When your children refer to you as the creature feature, when you miss important phone calls from the bank because the kids tell them "Oh no sorry mums asleep and we aren't allowed to wake her up", when your husband brings home dinner because he knows if he doesn't it will be spaggetti on toast for the sixth night running and he needs some meat!, when you wake up and the phone is next to yu and the reason you woke up is because some one is yelling at you to pick the phane up.When you are back on days and go to proof read your post and realize you can't spell.

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Specializes in Gyn Onc, OB, L&D, HH/Hospice/Palliative.

What's a DCF mother?

Department of Children / Family Services a.k.a DCFS, DCS,DCYS :specs:

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele.

You get confused giving morning report,this happened last night /this morning/the 19th. You move your bedroom to the basemnt where you can sleep at noon without sunlight to confuse your brain. You take a midday nap on your day off and then wake up at 3:30 AM. and start the coffee pot and cleaning your house.

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele.
When you schedule your dental cleaning at 0900 and then fall asleep in the dental chair........

When you fall asleep in the middle of report.......

When you fall asleep in the middle of sex......

When your first priority on arriving at work is to make coffee......

When you know of every conceivable place to steal coffee from at work (like the doctor's lounge - hey, they're not using it at 0200!)

When you can drop off to sleep in a chair in under two minutes and snap to wakefulness 20 minutes later and finish your shift.......

When you can't read some of your own charting because the words are running off the page.....

When you hold cogent, pleasant phone conversations with numbnuts who call you at noon and later have absolutely no recollection of speaking with them.......

When you look like something out of The Fall of the House of Usher while volunteering as a chaperone on your child's zoo field trip......

When you feign sleep because you're bored with what's going on (meeting, church, etc.), and no one is offended, because they assume you're exhausted from working........

When you roll over at 0500 on your nights off and cackle to yourself, because you can roll over and go back to sleep!

:bugeyes:

You don't know how many times my husband tells me something after I'm awake that we "discussed" while I was asleep, and I have no clue what he's talking about.
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Specializes in Geriatrics,Primary Care,Cardiology.

is going to sleep for 4-6 hours before my shift gonna help me function better on the night shift?

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Specializes in Telemetry, Nursery, Post-Partum.
is going to sleep for 4-6 hours before my shift gonna help me function better on the night shift?

If you can truly get 4-6 hours of sleep before you go to work, it will be very, very beneficial. You will be suprised how awesome a mere 6 hours of sleep can feel. Of course, after a while it can feel pretty bad too. What doesn't help me is only an hour or so, I just get out of bed feeling groggy and out of it.

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.

Your neighbors have become used to seeing you sleep in your car, and no longer knock on the window, they just check to make sure you're still breathing. LOL

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Your neighbors have become used to seeing you sleep in your car, and no longer knock on the window, they just check to make sure you're still breathing. LOL

atleast they care enough to have knocked/to check

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