🩺NIGHT NURSE💤 5 Reasons why I love it!

5 REASONS WHY I LOVE BEING A NIGHT NURSE!1️⃣ Low stimuli- 🌠

I personally love working when lights are dim, there aren’t a million call lights going off at once, staff such as management, PT, therapists, speech, etc are not on nights. Patients wake infrequently on my unit overnight and the bulk of my work is the last hour of my shift waking certain patients for care.

2️⃣ Pay Differential-💰

Goes without saying, this is definitely a perk working night shift. We get $3/hr more. (I’m interested in the comments section if anyone else gets more? Less? Day differential instead?

3️⃣ Keeping appointments-📆

Before working night shift I felt like I was constantly having to cancel or reschedule appointments, which can be difficult when my working hours are the same hours open for offices. Working nights I can still go to all of my day appointments and sleep around it. I also have gone straight to the beach after work and slept there! Lots of options depending how many days in a row you’re on, hours per shift, etc.

4️⃣More time to look up patients-💻

I personally love having the extra computer time on night shift rather than bedside care; it gives me plenty of time to look up the patients on the unit and give an extremely thorough report for the day shift RN. (Pro tip: Make copies of a thorough report and hand out to oncoming RN) They always appreciate writing down less and having information day shift usually does not have the time to sit down and look up.

5️⃣ Home while my dog’s awake!🐶

This may sound crazy to some, but I totally appreciate being home during my dog’s waking hours! I feel like he doesn’t miss me when he is sleeping at night, and I have plenty of hours during the day before I sleep for the next night shift. I feel less guilty and happy that I’m able to be around him more.

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