DAY SHIFT vs NIGHT SHIFT for Nurses 

Night shift tip- If someone calls you during the day when you are sleeping, call them back in the middle of the night when they are sleeping.

You forgot a night shift benefit- no management wandering around! Haha. Also 100% Agree the teamwork is the best part of night shift.

I’m not even a nurse but I’m addicted to watching these for some reason lol

Two best parts of nights: no management and usually more chill/easy.

I love night shift, but I hate getting cussed out at 2AM for waking someone up, but I’m just trying to save your life! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Being a night owl... I am LOOKING FORWARD to night shift!! As a teacher, I wanted to teach at a school for child insomniacs... never found one.

I am retired from nursing now but when I did work on a hospital floor, I preferred to work night shift. I believe that I grew more as a nurse working on nights because you didn't have the support that you would have had on days and I learned to work independently and be a patient advocate which meant waking up doctors in the middle of the night and dealing with their attitude. My attitude was,"You signed up for this job...now deal with it!" I did not allow myself to be intimidated by any of the doctors. Changes in patients's vitals, changes in their mental status and changes in their condition needing a doctor's order got called in regardless of time. Sometimes it was a matter of life and death.

Night shift 4 lyfe. I was always so much of a night owl that people thought I was a morning person. :) I like getting paid more for just being awake when I want to be. No cafeteria means no cheat food too. I love my team. I like our independence. I like setting up day shift to succeed and seeing them come in to my best unit.

Another great benefit about being on nights (in most cases) is that there's less traffic to deal with on the roads during the commute. 🎉🌛☕🖤🥰💉

Lol night shift all the way. Don’t have to deal with quality control coming around and yelling at you to label your IV tubing or asking how long foleys have been in.

Don't say bad words, Blake. Like the Q word. Awful things happen after the Q word is mentioned.

Day shift - washing, feeding - dealing with family members - collaborating with interdisciplinary team eg. physicians, physio, social work, psychiatry - patient going down for tests' - admitting post-ops - discharge, patient transfers Night shift - more patients, more manual tasks (eg. toileting, pain management) - settling everyone for bed - breathing rounds - bloodwork - less help, more teamwork - longer breaks (to sleep) I find both of them busy in different ways. Usually the busiest time for day shift lasts between the morning and afternoon, eases up a bit around 3-5pm, and unless getting last-second admissions, easier at end of shift. Lots going on when you're trying to co-ordinate discharges/transfers/tests/admissions at the same time plus having to answer questions of the interdisciplinary team and of the family. A lot of various things going on at once. Night shift, you have a heavier patient load (eg. up to 6 patients per nurse vs 4 patients during day shift). So there's a lot of meds and toileting to be done around the same time (before bed and after waking up). The busiest times around between start of shift 7pm until maybe around 11pm (once 10pm meds are done). Once patients are settled, it's mostly quiet between 12 to 4-5am with those few exceptions (sick or rowdy patients). Less family to deal with due to visitor restrictions. Once you start waking patients at 5:30am for bloodwork, 6am meds and toileting, that last 2 hours is a very busy strtetch to get everything done before the end of shift including your charting. So for dayshift I would say many various things to juggle, where night shift is a lot of the same thing to juggle. Both are tiring.

Night shifts are definitely NOT easier due to the fact that you have the same amount of work but with like 1/3rd the staff. Especially working as a CNA.

I love night shift . Even though I’m not a nurse , I love being alone and there’s no one bragging about stuff all the time. Less drama and there’s no one to supervise you all the time.

“That’s the difference between Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack.” Sirrrrr, you are speaking my language 🤣🤣

Night shift nurses only have each other to lean on so we are always willing to help!!

Your teeth... perfection! (No comment on the vid, just incredibly impressed with your teeth.)

Love this! So true! I’m a night-shifter to the core! I wish there was a way for people to see and understand what goes on at night. It cracks me up when I answer a light from the desk & the patient apologizes for waking me up! So many people think we just sit around at night because the patients are sleeping! HA! Love all your videos, Blake!

Best group of nurses I ever worked with was on night shift. I did nights for 5 years and then decided I needed a more regular schedule and switched to days. Both shifts have pros and cons...working with a great group of co-workers is everything 😀

Night shift in New Zealand means I avoid my boss and slightly higher pay

Blake: "I never want people to say Night Shift vs. Day shift" 6:03 Blake's video title: "Day shift vs. Night shift"

Night shifter here for 23 years. I tried day shift for 2 years but I didn’t reap the benefits I was expecting such as better health. I feel less stressed working nights plus the money is an extra bonus. The shift differential pays for the health insurance, etc.. My mom was a night shift nurse too so it must’ve rubbed off.

Avocado toast for night shift hahah yes

I'm a lab tech, but the similarities are still the same. I love the night shift! I especially like that it's easier to form relationships with nursing floors and resp care.

Quieter on nights??!! The patients get crazy at night...they dont sleep, many times they're more confused and combative, and you're on a skeleton crew many times trying to keep the crazy patients safe as they try and crawl out of bed and set off the bed alarms every 5 secs... it's ridiculous!! It's always funny to me for the same patients the differences in staff matrix between day and night shifts

Another night shift plus - you don’t have to wake up early in the morning and it’s near impossible to be late for your shift because it starts later in the day :)

Night shift workers get woken up in the middle of the day by dayshift wanting you to work extra. No one calls dayshift in the middle of the night. That needs to change.

One of the best parts I like about night shift is no discharges😁 (unless a patient decides to leave AMA)

Been a nurse for 10 years. I've worked every shift there is to think of...this video is very well done, accurate and informative. And I can confirm as a night shift nurse- we do love avocado toast...

My dad works night calm and collected, mom works day shift always coming hom cursing yelling and screaming. I work night and the best thing I've ever done.

Hahah this is 100% accurate! I️ flop from night shift to day shift; weekly!! Both the 7 to 7 & I️ must say there really is no “easier” or “harder” shift, they’re both equally challenged. Loved it Blake this was very very accurate !

I currently work night shifts at the hospital I'm at as a PCT. I love nights!! Definitely going to be a night shift RN once I graduate 😊 thank u so much for your videos I enjoy them all!

I'm not a nurse.....how did i get here. I frickin love you though.

Watched this as a senior in HS, now starting clinical in my second year of nursing school :,) love you and your vids!❤️

What you said at the end was 👌🏻 it's all about teamwork 🙌🏻

Nursing student here, losing my mind 😩send help! 💆🏻‍♀️

I can see your enthusiasm while talking about your career! This is inspiring! GOD Bless you and thank you for making this video💖🤗

Going to start nursing next year and I'm obsessed with these videos

Night shift nurse for 5 years and I love it!

Night shift por vida! I love it 🥰 night shift we can handle alot more with less people 😉 Less stress.

I feel so much better about starting my first nightshift position as a nursing assistant after this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video!!

Night differential pay is where it is 🤗 I prefer nights cause don't have to be bothered by the nonsense or BS.

This fuu said Nordstrom and Nordstrom rack baby I’m dead over here. Subscribed!

I used to text my friends the following when I did overnights on the ambulance:" I'm on duty until 6AM, when I say goodnight, I mean goodnight. The only person that should be waking me up is the dispatcher and that's all. If you wake me up, be prepared for a nastygram from me at the end of shift."

Totally right I'm a PCT at night and I love the fact that there are not so many people around and I can take care of my patients and not have to worry about oh dang PT has them or something like that. I can't wait to be a nurse on nights when I'm done with nursing school too. Lol first comment became I keep my night shift schedule even when not at work. 🌚

Second shift is the busiest and hardest shift hands down

Normal sleep and cafeteria open, the only two reasons to work days, LOL

Love your channel! I am a NP and have worked nights for my entire career until a few months ago when an ACNP position became available in March. I love the extra help during the day, but I miss my night peeps and fewer people being around/asking questions at night. I do sleep better at night and feel better on my off days. Like you said, there are pros and cons to both.

You're awesome Nurse Blake! I always enjoy your videos.

I’m a RadTech student but these videos are so good! And super interesting!

I love your positivity

Loved the graveyard shift. After work, you have the movie theatre, the mall, etc. without crowding. Lol, who sleeps after the graveyard shift? I treat the graveyard shift as 7am-3pm and sleep at 11pm. So after work at 8am, I go to the gym, I eat my first meal around 10am. Then I do my chores. By 3pm, I eat my second meal. By 5pm I start my sleep routine. I wake up at 11pm and start my work at 12mn. Less stress, I put more energy in the gym. By the way, I work as a Hospice Nurse on standby. If I don't get calls, I still get paid. If I get calls close to my ending shift, it's OT.

When I was admitted because of slow heart rate and anorexia I had a nurse in my room constantly (just to watch and make sure I didn’t purge or something stupid). So I would talk to the younger ones at night and kept them company. I always preferred the night shift nurses.

Get a noise maker, like a fan blower for your room if you want to sleep during the daytime. This works like a gem.

I’m in BNA but love watching this stuff😭

I use to work in the operating rooms, sometimes it was sooo quiet 💤 and then when you get busy it is from the start of your shift till the end 💔 but I loved it.

“That’s the difference between Nordstrom and Nordstrom rack” I felt that.....

Night shifts : My routine hand over, inventory assignment, assessment , examination of the pt . documentation.medications as ordered.early morrning bed baths , changing linrn, Performing ECGs, assisting for portable cxr, blood works, lines tubings due for change, bed side supplies fill up for next shift.......a ccu nurse❤❤❤

My last few nights have been insanely busy, we have 7 patients and they’re often really sick. I rarely get a real break on nights but that incentive pay 💰💰, worth it.

I graduated in December and I got hired to work night shift. Sleeping during the day is next to impossible but I love my shift diff and the people I work with on my floor. Teamwork! We work 3 12’s 7-7:30

I have never been good with mornings, even during junior high and high school. I have always been a night person

You’re absolutely right. I like all your videos 👏🏽

I was literally thinking about this on my drive home today 😂 then this popped up on my page. I just can’t be up at 7am. To me it’s a matter of your job being easier based around the convenience of your schedule and when you’re most awake.

me at 14 watching this👀 but i really hope to be a travel nurse it really interest me and i want to be a nurse so bad. i cant wait till i can go to nursing school

I'm here working night watching Nurse Blake

I've been working night shift for the past 12 years and I couldn't be happier. Always been a night owl! During the day the phone rings non-stop: physios, doctors, family members, the kitchen, the dietician, laundry, family friends, other facilities, radiology, threatre. During the day you run around like a headless chicken because everyone wants a piece of you RIGHT NOW!!!!!! Night shift is awesome: 99% less phonecalls than during the day, no people bustling in and NO MANAGEMENT!! The only problem is that there are colleagues who are not interested in teamwork and hide themselves in dark corners and only come out when it's time to go on lunch. It's hard when you have a team of eight members and only five or six do the work.

On my unit the patients don't sleep at night, they are incoherently yelling out, trying to get out of bed, or asking for things I have no access to at 2AM. Typically there's an old guy screaming about either pain or sleeping meds the entire night and yet the doctor refuses to give any. His neighbors can't sleep and stay up asking for food when dietary has been closed since 7pm. Then on the other hall is a confused old lady with dementia or UTI or a combo, restless, non-stop crying out for husband/daddy/mommy. Next door to her is another yet confused patient that's trying to climb out of bed because the aforementioned lady won't stop mumbling and he can't sleep. It's fun. Ps: another major difference is communication with the Doctors. They're not around usually for us to get a good rapport and it's a headache trying to get orders from someone half asleep. Day shift they all joke around but we're on tippy toes because they're still annoyed we called about that thing at 2AM...

I'm not even a nurse. I just think Blake is so adorable and he has the best smile and teeth. I just enjoy him. I know we will all be in the hospital at some point in our lives. Can my nurse please be this precious? Also, does it make me crazy for telling myself "aw, we can't be friends bc I have to get up early and work during the day and he works at night.......wait.....also we aren't friends bc I'm almost 40, probably live in another state, and do not know him" Hahaha. I'll just stay if I was a nurse, I'd want to be on Blake's team.

First Year Student Nurse UK enjoy both day & night shifts both have different vibes & both have different learning experiences.

Night shift. The absence of management and family members increases the happiness in my life. In all seriousness it does. Also, loved the PTO tour in NYC!

I can’t wait to become a nurse I’m doing medical assistant to gain experience then I’m going to go into nursing

Thank you so much for acknowledging OT!

Your videos are the best! Thanks!

Night shift plus : no administrators!

Love your videos! Keep it up!

Blake I find you in this Video so Authentic and so smart. Thanks 🙏 for your work really you make a important job. 🧡🤝💪✌️😎🍀😇🌎🌍🌏☮️🙏

I’ve been on nights for almost 20 years in the ER and the various ICUs. I’ll say this about night shift: as hard as it is it will make you a better nurse.

One Team! Superb! 👏 👏

I've worked night shifts for 18 out of my 27 years nursing career, the rest were evenings. Day shift isn't my thing. I can't stand the many people walking around in the day time. I love my nights. As a nighy nurse, you create your own nights. Keep your rooms dark and sleep like a baby. You nailed the team work at night. It's amazing. We're all we have, we can't afford not to work together. Bless all my nurses our there. We can NEVER be paid enough.

Omg I loooved your personality. You have a amazing way to think Great shift

We don’t even get paid more for night shift 😭😭 where’s the moneeeey?!

I love Nurse Blake

Did nights my whole career (labor and delivery).. It's a different busy on nights. I loved the teamwork. And, lack of irritating management disruptions and doctors constantly calling you from the office because they're trying to figure out if I can get one more appointment or procedure done before they have to run in and deliver a baby. I mean I get why they did it, but boy it was just nice to get my orders hang up the phone, do my management, call them when I needed them.

I just love ur personality!!😊😊😊

When I first started working (cardiac surgery& neurosurgery) we worked 8hr shifts. My favorite shift was 3:30-11:30

I love your personality and teamwork mentality...from Port Angeles, WA☺️

You are super funny!... Like one of those naturally funny ppl who can make ppl laugh without trying. You should write like 5 minutes of jokes and go to an open mic night or something! Stand up would be right up your alley! Its scary but you have a rare gift to share..... Thats where you can really dirty up your humor.... For funny patient stories that might not fly on youtube....

Yes, team work is very important for night team

Can you please a serious video on tips for effective charting in the real world. Things specific tip for notes which lessen the charting time. Example how to cut down on charting time.

A white noise machine and blackout curtains are mandatory for day sleeping.

I love the chill vibes of night shift, but I just couldn't with those 12 hr nights. They were the most mentally hellish times of my life and it just wasn't worth it:( Days are busier but I've never felt like I was having a mental breakdown.

Here in italy, you have a night shift, every 2 day of day shift. We work 8h in day shift divided in morning and afternoon, while the night is of 12h, the day after night shift you have the rest of the day off, and the day after too. We work 6 days in the week They don't pay you more if you do night shift, infact, the maximum salary that a nurse can have is about 2000$. The positive side anyway is that any specialist must be present on any shift for a law. So if you need any specialist at any hour, you find at least 2, because the law say that they should be at least 2

Night shift is way more laid back, like we don’t give a damn lol and day shift are usually more uptight, needless to say, you don’t need extra stress on top of it all

Best of both worlds: Be a day-shift Weekender. No management or ancillary services around to bother you; Rake in either the Weekend Differential OR the Weekender Bonus if your hospital has a dedicated Weekend Staffing Program; and it's Day Shift! Sure, you might have limited time to do stuff in the weekends, but there's one Hell of a payoff. I did that at my Facility for almost 13 years, and the financial rewards were totally worth it!

Good points blake

I used to work evenings at a call center and this shit had me rolling so damn hard cuz it’s the same exact stuff for us. Thanks 🤣

Night shift: procedures & surgeries (except for emergencies) are scheduled for the day shift, you deal with fewer family members visiting (of course Covid has changed visitation policy completely), no management, you don’t have to join committees (they encourage it if you work days) because they always meet during the day…. Day shift: you are exposed to more so you will learn more (I recommend all new nurses start on day shift), ancillary and specialty services in house and available to respond to consults, you participate when physicians make rounds on your patient (very helpful), you see and meet more people….. I started on day shift and switched to night shift for more money. But I was bored and depressed (I work in ICU) until I got used to it after about six months.

I did 11+ years on graveyards for my last nursing job. Good group of people. One thing you didn't mention about nights, is that you usually don't have to pass menus & there aren't any patient trays to deal with.

You're so entertaining!

Loveeeee working nights! Always been a night owl. I do have to say, days and nights are total different breeds. Personality wise that is.