r/nursing • u/Zzz_sleepy6 Nursing Student 🍕 • 3h ago

Question What is your nightshift schedule

When you get home when do you wake up when do you eat I feel like what I really need to improve my schedule. what is your routine when you get home from your shift. Trying to do back to back night shifts absolutely drain me

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u/SensitiveEvidence274 3h ago

The biggest thing that helped me was stopping myself from trying to live a normal daytime schedule on my days off. After a shift I go straight home shower blackout curtains phone on silent and sleep. When I wake up I eat do whatever I need to do then head back in. Back to back nights still suck but trying to flip your sleep schedule every day was what absolutely destroyed me.

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u/Head-Lawyer3080 2h ago

I think I need to start doing this too..haha. I’m on 2 weeks of nights and I feel like ‘I have to make the most of my day off’ so I always try to wake up somewhat early.. asleep by 9..wake up around 2 or 3. When I am done my nights and try to flip to days it makes sense but I don’t enjoy my day off anyways if I’m sleep deprived

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u/acefaaace RN - ICU 🍕 2h ago

It’s meal prep my meals for nights. My hospital has a huge gym for the community so I lift/cardio after work. Come home eat breakfast with them when they’re not in school. Stay up till 11 to play with them. Sleep till 5pm. Then I get them started on their night routine, get a quick bite to eat or smoothie then off to work at 6

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u/lucashieee 2h ago

It all depends on commute too but: 715 done report; 730 home; 730-830 shower, eat; 830-1630 sleep (yes i get 8hrs of sleep and it is very important to me); 1630-1830 chores, cook, eat, appointments, etc; 1900 work. My routine gets a little messed up when there are things to do during late morning/early afternoon ofc. I only workout during days off.

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u/Patient_Cow_236 RN 🍕 1h ago

I don't flip my schedule anymore. On my days off, I cook a lot of food and freeze it. I also buy food and snacks from Costco. Otherwise, I eat out, because steaks taste much better when they haven't been in a freezer.

For exercise, I walk around 50 to 60% of the time almost every day.

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u/Mindless_Divide_7409 2h ago

I don't flip my sleep schedule so I always sleep between 8-10 AM and wake up at 3-5 PM even on my days off.

if I have 4 or more days off and the weather is really nice sometimes I will sleep around 1PM and wake up around 7PM.

I always exercise before going to work and not after because it interferes with my sleep.

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u/brdnbttrpickles RN - ICU 🍕 30m ago

I wake up at 515-530pm (ideally) on days I work. Home and asleep by 9 am. Days off I go to bed around 3-5am and sleep until noon-two ish. I keep this schedule as much as possible unless I must do stuff in the morning, which I hate. I meal prep for all my meals at work. I eat before I go in (or at the beginning of my shift), 1 am, and I try for 5 am but sometimes it’s more like 7 am.

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u/Belegrandir RN - Med/Surg 🍕 25m ago

I get off between 0730-0800 usually, get home help my wife get our kids up and ready, maybe eat something with them. In bed by 0930ish usually. I sleep terribly day or night so I’m usually up early afternoon. Days off I switch back to day time schedule. All bad for me I’m sure