 Hi guys! So today I wanted to do a video on why I work day shift and not night shift. I get a lot of people that ask me for pros and cons on day shift versus night shift. So I just want to talk more about my personal experience working day shift over night shift and why I continue to work day shift and not night shift. So to go back in time when I first became a nurse I worked a mid shift from like 3 p.m. to 11 30 p.m. and occasionally I may stay an extra four hours and I'd work until like 3 30 a.m. So I never really worked a full-on night shift where I was like 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. or 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. so I know a lot of people right now are gonna be like well why are you talking about this? Oh wow I'm not talking about working night shift I'm talking about working day shift. So I never really worked a full-on night shift but mid shift you kind of get that in between where it's kind of like a night shift kind of like a day shift and when I moved back to Arizona and got my job in ICU I've got a day shift position from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. which I was super thankful for and I wanted a day shift position because it just fits me a lot better. I am an early riser early to bed type of person. I don't sleep well under like I'm very particular about how I sleep I need it dark I need it quiet I can't sleep during the day when all these other things are going on I can't sleep when there's a lot of light out yeah maybe I can take a nap but I can't like full-on sleep eight hours when there's like construction going outside like right outside my room and it's bright out. I'm just a type of person that when I don't sleep well my immune system goes down and I just I don't function very well and to try and have good life balance where I go and work at night three days a week and then flip flopping my schedule and trying to have a normal day shift day shift life and then going back to night shift life it just doesn't really work well for my body even when I worked in mid shift I just felt like I was getting home by midnight and I just you know I would go to bed and I wouldn't wake up till like night or ten which I wouldn't be going to bed till like two or three anyway so it's not like I was sleeping in super long I still was only sleeping like seven eight hours and then I would be up several hours before my shift and I'd go to work and it wasn't too bad but I just I felt like my husband I kind of had a disconnect because he would work basically like 7 a.m. to 4 or 5 and by the time he got home from work I was already at work and by the time I got home from my job he was already asleep and then by the time I woke up in the morning he was already gone for his job so that was difficult for us where I work now and I work day shift I get home I don't get home till 8 p.m. but we are still on the same like wake up go to bed schedule and I also only work three days a week so I have all this other time off where I'm not having to completely flop my schedule back because I'm already on this like normal schedule so to speak so day shift just seems to work wall not wall house window whatever outside they're flying outside so day shift just seems to work better for me as far as like mentally and health wise it's really easy when you work night shift to kind of slip into this sleeping all day awake all night and then even on your days off you maybe aren't going to the gym or exercising or being as healthy and I'm not saying this for everyone so you will thrive off night shift and they do wonderful at it but for me I'm not a night owl I'm a day person it's not worth the extra pay to me to have to like be awake during the night that just sounds awful and like when I go when I give reports night shift and then I come back the next day and like they're still there it just like it's almost still mind-blowing to me it's like wow they've literally been here working all night and I know I work all day they probably think the same thing but day shift just seems to fit my personality better not personality as far as like the nurses I'm not saying like oh day shift night shift or totally different personalities I mean to a certain extent you are a little bit but I just I would rather work days yes you are a little bit busier so to speak because all the doctors round during the day and so to speak and I know that's not like that for every job but at least in the ICU yes you could be really busy at night taking care sick patients but the doctors all around during the day procedures usually happen during the day unless it's an emergency so you're typically a little bit busier during the day as far as that goes and but I'd rather do that than to have to come in to work at 7 and be there till 7 30 in the morning that just sounds awful but so many people do it and they are wonderful at it and it fits their life perfectly so it totally is up to you I guess it's one of the great things about being a nurse is you have those options if you're not a person that wants to go to work at 7 a.m. every single day well you don't have to you go to work at 7 p.m. every single day so thank you guys for watching this video hope it gave you some insight into my thoughts and why I work day shift if you have any questions leave them down below if you have any comments or opinions make them nice opinions leave them down below and I'll see you guys in my next video bye