Working the Night Shift

There is no time, there is only the night

[harnutvlad]

"The only downside of practicing medicine faster than light is that you have to live in the darkness"
~Emergency medicine

[lordstark]

"We don't even have clocks. There's only the night" is the most relatable statement

[PollyNitroRocket]

I’ve worked the night shift for the past two years. At first I didn’t think it was that bad until we had a possible stroke patient and I asked “what day is it?” Neither the pt or myself knew the answer 😂

[GordonGordon]

I'm a ED nocturnist. Everything in this video is true, from Monday to Decaday, 24/10...

[mistaecco]

Healthcare IT perspective - night shift ER folks were always the most difficult people to diagnose issues for, since they'd need to escalate to the desktop on-call to ever actually talk to us. Usually it came down to messages shot back and forth, once a day. While waiting for fixes to their issues, I swear they came up with the most ingenious and diabolical workarounds I ever encountered - stealing WOWs from units that only operated in the daylight and returning them before it was noticed (see 150 message long email thread "Why is rehab doing so many blood test labels"), account credential sharing... I once found a 100 foot network cable run up through the drop ceiling of one room into another to sidestep a broken wall port. To this day I have no idea where they got the cable. They are the most elusive, unhinged, determined, and high strung people in the hospital, and I have no qualms in saying I'd trust any one of them with my life.

Also one time they called in asking if we knew how to fix their coffee machine.

[makenahcrawford]

As an ER physician scribe that just got off a 12 hour night shift I completely agree with everything in this video. The redbull, the sleep, the admin, and the cursing🥹

[ellybanelly]

As a natural born night owl who finally gave in to what my body wanted and switched over to a nightshift job at an assisted living facility: the cursing and freedom is accurate. Completely, 100%, ACCURATE.

I got around people calling me at 2 in the evening by calling them at 2 in the morning. Works wonders for helping people to 'get' it.

Edit: So happy to see all the responses and conversation! Yea, I do silence my phone now and only have emergency calls come through. Now, if only we could make the managers come in for a mandatory staff meeting at 2 in the morning, and absolutely demand that they 'look like they want to be there' and 'pay attention, stop yawning and take your job seriously'. 😑

[bonnymiller]

Not in the medical field, but as a former night shifter in a factory, this is 100% accurate for night shifts everywhere. 😂😂

[SayMagnaFeek]

Worked as a bedside RN for 41 years, full time nightshift. Absolutely true about the lack of any kind of hospital administration breathing down your back. Never saw them, couldn't identify them in a line-up. The night shift camaraderie and flying under the administrative radar were the best. And it's so true -- you knew the shift was ending only when you saw the sun beginning to dawn.

[moj]

As a doctor, I think there's no way he'll come up with another relatable sketch but then he always does! Great content as always

[jjmitchell]

I’m a 4th year (out of 6) med student and I volunteer in my teaching hospital’s ED after lectures when it’s on duty and that “hi-“ “yeah yeah just start doing stuff” really hit the nail on the head, not even 5 full seconds into the video

[fortweyr]

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH VOICEOVER: This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness.

[egonmilanowski]

There is something wholesome and just right about the Charge Nurse saying we curse a lot.

[TeDCTR]

As a former night shifter in ED, god bless I could feel the siren song of night shift rise in blood. Admin will never find me again.

[acsproule]

Working night shift to avoid administration is the most accurate statement I have ever heard. I worked dayshift once and there were way too many “managers” and “supervisors” for me. Plus most night shift in general is just trying to survive the night and keep the hospital alive so we get saved from doing a lot of administrative task our dayshift and even our evening shift colleagues have to do. Might be shortening my life but I’ll take 7on/7off night shift of any other shift.

[nixie]

I would watch a full series of that, tbh. "Welcome to the night shift", like, a funnier and darker version of "Scrubs", all played by the same person.

[rbrown]

As an ER physician headed in to work the night shift on Thanksgiving I can 100% relate.

[rabidsamfan]

When I was a kid my med tech mom worked the 11 to 7 shift at night and then slept while we were at school. Much later in life she said it was the only thing that kept her from strangling the guy who was in charge of the lab. She got called in whenever they had a baby who needed blood because she was the most universal donor in the city, too, day or night, and one time I went with her and learned three new words from the night nurses! 😂

[drironmom]

Haha perfect! Recovering ER doc here - worked in a very rural ER - loved nights. It was just me, an RN, an LPN, and the elderly maintenance guy who did triple duty as security and one on one monitor for the psych patients. Best of all, no suits

[herbwitch]

My sister worked trauma unit for a hospital in a major US city. Her schedule was Friday night to Monday morning, two doubles and a single, for the entirety of her daughter’s primary and secondary education. She brought home the best stories to tell us over our cheerios. My niece and I went to school with all the best gross-out stories. Mary would have gotten along well with your night shift crew.