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NASHVILLE, April 15 (UPI) -- Some U.S. hospital nurses go without sleep for as much as 24 hours to adjust to working on the night shift, the least effective strategy, researchers say.
Karen Gamble, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says the study was based on questionnaires from 388 nurses who work at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. About 25 percent of the nurses say they went without sleep for 24 hours before working.
Yeah. Right.
As I type from the overnight shift on the detox unit where I work.
Working third shift ruins your life and health, sooner or later. I sleep all the time during the day but it's not the same. Many of us at my job have had at least one car crash from inattention or falling asleep at the wheel.
Not surprised. In nursing there used to be 3 shifts, days, evenings and nights. They've now changed over to the brutal 12 hours 7a-7p and 7p-7a with 3 on and 3 off. There have been studies done and both shifts are now seeing more errors because of the longer stressfull hours. I can work days or evenings, I tried nights for 7 months and it just about killed me off. I could never adjust to day sleeping...my internal clock refused to adjust, nor at 60 could I stand up to 12 hour shifts, I could manage the 8's.
I tried nights for 7 months and it just about killed me off. I could never adjust to day sleeping...my internal clock refused to adjust, nor at 60 could I stand up to 12 hour shifts, I could manage the 8's.
I had the same experience in my early 20s. I only lasted about 6 months. The first three months, I didn't sleep at all. I tried going to bed when I got off work at 7am. I couldn't sleep. I tried staying up and going to bed in the afternoon. I couldn't sleep. After three months, I finally started sleeping from utter exhaustion. Problem was that I slept all day---from 7am until 10pm when I needed to get ready for work. After a few months of not having a life, I gave up and found a different job. Now that I'm older, I could probably do it because I have problem sleeping during the day decades later.
I had the same experience in my early 20s. I only lasted about 6 months. The first three months, I didn't sleep at all. I tried going to bed when I got off work at 7am. I couldn't sleep. I tried staying up and going to bed in the afternoon. I couldn't sleep. After three months, I finally started sleeping from utter exhaustion. Problem was that I slept all day---from 7am until 10pm when I needed to get ready for work. After a few months of not having a life, I gave up and found a different job. Now that I'm older, I could probably do it because I have problem sleeping during the day decades later.
Just about the same experience here... I have worked third shift at two different points in my life... both times.. I ended up sleeping just like you stated...
My wife works Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 7PM till 7AM. Today (Friday) she was up by 7AM, will leave for work at 6:30 and will be up till 8:AM Saturday.
Worse here. I do random switches of 7a to 5p, 2p to 12a, and 9p to 7a. All the time.
Talk about never getting used to what is going on.
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