days vs. nights
so here i am... been on nights for a good month already. i like it, i adjusted well.... it has it's crazy moments... especially between the hours of 8pm and 11pm. after that, things starts to quiet down (unless you have those severely sundowning patients and severely confused, demented patients!). i still stay awake for the whole 12-hours that i am in... i like nights. i like it for i know it gets busy, yet it quiets down after a while, you get the chance to catch up with whatever it is you have to do. the textbook nurse that has the time to speak to patient and hear what they have on their chest, the "therapeautic communication" as the called it... i actually was able to apply it on nights... after working on the field for about 2 years now, i actually was able to stay in a patient's room for a good 10 minutes and talk to him. today, he just told me that that night we talk was the first night he slept happy. it just feels so rewarding! i finally get it when God said that we meet people for a reason. that each one of them will bring something in our lives. and i believe that i was that person for him.
on the downside... i have been feeling the exhaustion... i have been losing days wherein i just sleep through it and will be up all night even on my day off.. which is so unproductive of me. am so sluggish! on the days that i am off, i have to force myself to stay awake and be away from my bed... but then, after a 12-hour shift, all i long for is the bed... don't get me wrong, i could stay awake as long as am doing something and someone is next to me helping me stay awake! but it's just hard... i would be actually be awake for more than 24-hours!! sometimes, i miss the busy-ness of days.. of not being able to sit down, being stressed out... coz i know that's what keeps me on my toes. i know that i am being productive, instead of sitting here waiting for time to come for the next medication or to just find something to do as to not fall asleep.
i miss spending time with horacio (i miss going to and coming home from work with him or have lunch together)... i want to make plans to see family and friends... i actually kinda owe the kids hang-out time... haven't called or spoken to my mom since i don't know when... and i still have to fix my place up and ready it for christmas... there's just so many things to do that my sluggish self is just too sluggish. maybe i would switch to days... but then, there goes the therapeautic nurse that i could be on nights.... *sigh*
posted by jennifer lynn @ 4:22 AM
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the first month or so that i started working gregg and i would always end up sleeping til around 10-11 when everything was closed already. It was so annoying. We'd drive around looking for places that were open.
but now we've gotten used to the night shift and what we do is if we have 3 days off in a row, the first day we'll sleep til about 2:30-3. So there'd be time to go around do whatever. Then we'd get sleepy around 11-12pm, sleep, and wake up the next day in the daytime. So we'd be back to the daytime sched! Same for the third day.
Unfortunately, once its time to work, we have to make sure to take a nap around 1pm so that we get SOME sleep in and aren't super sleepy during work.
I don't know if it'll work for you but its worked for us so far!
Hope to see you on Christmas!
P.S. And YES we do need help with our itinerary for the Philippines!! hehe
thanks for the tip manang chooch! i think it would be easier though if i had someone to really wake me up and force me out of the bed... since i am usually alone at home on days, it's harder and i tend to just sleep. but, i am trying... hehe
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