![]() ![]() So we ended up doing about three months of days initially because as I said you are the only qualified on a night shift, so my ward don't put you on nights straight away. I have just recently finished my first set of nights. ![]() Play video: Chloe shares her experiences as a newly qualified RMN. If you want to find out how to become a mental health nurse as well, check out my blog! I did recently do a video all about kind of my experience as a newly qualified nurse, I will link that up there if you want to check it out! I am newly qualified for anyone who is new around here. So if you are gonna have to do night it's well worth asking a potential employer how it works, how often are you expected to do nights, how many nurses do you have on nights and if the rota is flexible.Īll those kind of things those are really important questions to ask before you start a job if night shifts are a concern of yours.īut now we've established that you're gonna have to do nights I thought I would share with you a few tips to make your nights a little bit easier. Where I work, most people like to do their nights together which works really well because it means one of us will do like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night and then the other person will do Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night because we only have one qualified on a night shift. So my first tip for night shift is kind of working out what you prefer and then going to work somewhere that can kind of accommodate that. Search Jobs Work somewhere accommodating to you No.1 for UK nursing, care & healthcare jobs. I would rather do four nights in a row then have like two nights, a night off, one night, a night off and then another night shift like I would rather just do four nights in a row.īut then I know other people where they would rather do like one or two nights, have another couple of nights off, one or two more nights and I just find it so fascinating that people have such a variant in what they prefer when it comes to night shifts.ġ000s of jobs for Nurses & Care Professionals. I personally prefer to have all my night shifts together. Our shifts are twelve and a half hours long so you will do three nights one week and then four nights the next week, then three nights then four nights and then you're back on days and it's weird, even within night shifts some people prefer to do it differently. Where I work the way we kind of do things is you do six weeks of day shifts and then you do four weeks of night shifts. Then on the other hand people hate them because a lot of people feel like your life is on hold, you don't get to see anyone, you don't get to do anything. Some people it really suits them to work nights, some people it suits their sleep pattern, some people it just works well because it means they don't have to pay for childcare because their other half is at home at night. I know some people that really love them and like to do just nights and then I know other people that completely hate them, and I always find that really funny that people can have such polarising opinions on them!īut I think it just comes down to your lifestyle you know. Obviously as you get higher up, if you go into a more specialist role or a management role or something like that you might not have to do nights but generally when you first start out as a nurse nights are just kind of what you have to do. ![]() Today I thought I would talk to you about night shifts, which for the vast majority of nurses are completely unavoidable, particularly when you first start out in your career. If you're currently looking for a mental health nurse job then I would definitely recommend you check out what they've got available on their website and on top of that they also post a lot of great resources on their social media so it's well worth giving them a follow.Īnd they have a blog with loads of really fab blog posts from all different kinds of nurses so again that's another thing that's well worth checking out whether you're a student or a qualified nurse. In case you guys haven't watched any of my previous nursing videos they are a careers website by nurses, for nurses. So today I have got for you another video in partnership with .uk. My name is Chloe, if you are new here I would love you to hit that bright red subscribe button down below, and of course if you enjoy the video don't forget to give it a big thumbs up. Hello guys and welcome back to my channel. Play video: Chloe's tips on how to survive the night shift! ![]()
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