tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-677145142663734190.post601694039398527918..comments2013-01-15T22:40:43.753-06:00Comments on Mursing: Night and Day@MurseWisdomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594291041795231145noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-677145142663734190.post-32046269062544389562013-01-15T22:40:43.753-06:002013-01-15T22:40:43.753-06:00I just stumbled across your blog via twitter. I fo...I just stumbled across your blog via twitter. I found this post very interesting and useful. I am a graduating nursing student and I am hoping to find employment in a hospital on the night shift. This is for two reasons, the first being daycare situations and the second being that I am naturally a night person. <br />I liked this post because it has given me perspective on why day shift nurses may have animosity and resentment towards night shift nurses and I will be able to use that information to better myself as a nurse and coworker. Honestly, it really just requires doing the job you have to the best of your abilities and not slacking off, but I imagine that it can be easy for most people to slide into the same attitude as their peers. When everyone around you is lazy it's easier to slip into that behavior yourself. <br />Thinking about this post will help remind me not to fall into that trap! Thank you for the insight and for sharing your frustrations. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-677145142663734190.post-682712949666391732013-01-14T22:54:19.136-06:002013-01-14T22:54:19.136-06:00I agree totally and I'm glad I'm not the o...I agree totally and I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I was worried that my feelings were out of line. Thanks for reading and thanks for commenting.@MurseWisdomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594291041795231145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-677145142663734190.post-87351060707724140822013-01-14T18:01:44.403-06:002013-01-14T18:01:44.403-06:00Hey, this is droopysocial worker from twitter. Too...Hey, this is droopysocial worker from twitter. Too lazy to sign up for an account. I have 100 views on this. Working shift work as an aid I found the night staff to be always a problem. If I worked days I was always playing catch up on crap like diapers that just were ignored all night. Skin breakdown? We all took the blame for bad night people. When I worked nights I cleaned. Everything. Else I'd fall asleep regardless of job. It always ticked me off to see my coworkers sitting on their asses reading books or watching TV not answering lights or helping. I mean seriously. We can get stuff together for the next shift and you're just going to sit there?<br /><br />When supervising if the night shift wasn't pulling their weight, doing bad charting (like dude the client eloped in the middle of the night and you said he was here all night), or being negligent they were gone no questions asked. I don't pay people to sit around and smile. <br /><br />And finally when I was a social worker at the hospital it the shift work nurses were endlessly frustrating. I showed up in time to see all 3 shifts through out the day many days. I liked to be early to catch rounding doctors. We had docs that would show up in afternoons or nights for their charting or patients a lot. I'd leave requests for the nurses when they got time to remind a doc to write an order for this or that. Nothing big. Usually call the doc and tell them the nurses would remind him when he showed up at midnight. Never happen. Some how with 5 nurses and a clerk on and 2-3 patients in the hospital and no ER's(I shit you not) none of them could find time to break away from their iphone on afternoons or midnights (because days did all the discharges where I was) to ask the doc anything. They were, get this, too busy. I developed a friendship with the day nurses as a result and stopped trying to help the other shifts at all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com