Odd hours
I've got 2 more days (er ... nights) of 3rd shift this week -- tonight and tomorrow night. Then I have Friday off, and I work 2nd shift on Saturday.
Several years ago, when I worked for a shipping company during my last semester of college, I worked nights, so 3rd shift isn't all that foreign to me. However, back then I worked a consistent schedule Monday through Friday. It's more difficult to stay adjusted when your schedule varies.
Aside from that, my schedule will go totally rodeo once classes resume for the Fall semester in 3 and a half weeks. Not only will I be taking 15 hours, but I'm an "ambassador" for the college, which obligates me to attend functions representing the College, give tours, answer prospective students' questions, etc. That requires 40 hours a semester.
Frankly, I have to entertain the idea of quitting the nursing home sometime during the semester if things get too weird. The ambassador position came with a $1200 scholarship ($600 per semester) for a year of work, so that'd be enough to trump whatever I'd be able to make as a nurse aide during that time.
We'll see how it goes. My grades come first, so that'll be the determining factor governing whether or not I stay with the nursing home. In any event, I'll sit for my boards and be an LPN by early 2008, so it's not like I'd be working as an aide all that long anyway. I don't plan to work at the nursing home as an LPN (though it's still too early to say for sure...)
In the mean time, though, I'm trying to make sure I get enough sleep between shifts. At least I can sleep while Miss Fluffy is at work. I've got shades and dark curtains in our bedroom, and I pull a toboggan down over my eyes to sleep, so I can shut out the daylight. Geez ... I'm like some kind of adult-diaper-changing vampire...
Several years ago, when I worked for a shipping company during my last semester of college, I worked nights, so 3rd shift isn't all that foreign to me. However, back then I worked a consistent schedule Monday through Friday. It's more difficult to stay adjusted when your schedule varies.
Aside from that, my schedule will go totally rodeo once classes resume for the Fall semester in 3 and a half weeks. Not only will I be taking 15 hours, but I'm an "ambassador" for the college, which obligates me to attend functions representing the College, give tours, answer prospective students' questions, etc. That requires 40 hours a semester.
Frankly, I have to entertain the idea of quitting the nursing home sometime during the semester if things get too weird. The ambassador position came with a $1200 scholarship ($600 per semester) for a year of work, so that'd be enough to trump whatever I'd be able to make as a nurse aide during that time.
We'll see how it goes. My grades come first, so that'll be the determining factor governing whether or not I stay with the nursing home. In any event, I'll sit for my boards and be an LPN by early 2008, so it's not like I'd be working as an aide all that long anyway. I don't plan to work at the nursing home as an LPN (though it's still too early to say for sure...)
In the mean time, though, I'm trying to make sure I get enough sleep between shifts. At least I can sleep while Miss Fluffy is at work. I've got shades and dark curtains in our bedroom, and I pull a toboggan down over my eyes to sleep, so I can shut out the daylight. Geez ... I'm like some kind of adult-diaper-changing vampire...
posted by Alpineman, RN at 4:10 PM
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