Nurses: Sleep or No Sleep

I’m so thankful for the wisdom that my mom imparted to me so many years ago. My mom is a wise, beautiful, youthful energetic woman who can outrun pretty much everyone in the house! One day when I was feeling unbalanced due to lack of sleep, I spoke with her telling her how I was incredibly sleep deprived. Expecting to hear some advice on how to sleep more or how awful my life was because I had a lack of sleep; she instead surprised me by saying. “Caroline, don’t stress or even think about this! If you don’t sleep well one night, you will sleep well the next!” I realized that thinking about sleep or the lack of sleep that I was getting was simply an unnecessary worry.
Truthfully, I have noticed that when there are days that I miss sleep, I am certainly tired the next day. However, when I do finally crash in bed, I notice that I’m much more refreshed the next day. I’m also able to hit the pillow and not remember anything else. Which usually never happens, because, sometimes I feel like I have to have all the stars in alignment to get to sleep.
One thing that I mention in this video is that for me it is more important that I finish everything that needed to be done prior to going to bed. This is because if things are left undone, I am thinking about the things I didn’t finish as I’m going to sleep. I guess this makes me feel sort of like a failure in one way or another. I know that is not the truth, it is just the way I feel…
However, when I just plow through and finish what I needed to finish. My head hits the pillow with happiness and I’m feeling very blissful and sleep very deep.
With regards to sleep medications. Although every medication certainly has a time and place, you may want to rethink taking something for sleep because researchers are finding that taking medications to help you sleep in the long run can cause more problems than not sleeping as much. So essentially, in the long run it is better to get 5 hours of sleep per night, than to take a medication for sleep and get 8.
I really hope you liked this video! If you did, please give it a thumbs up!
See you next Monday!
xoxo
~Caroline
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[twinturbo]

Its 5am, I start work in an hour and I have again had no sleep at all, I work 12hr shifts. fml

[martinvanbeek-lpfq]

I hardly ever get sleep it's so hard I get 5 hours of sleep and sometimes 9 hours of sleep once a week but thankyou so much for this video

[timothy]

Great video! Thanks! I feel more mentally relieved by hearing your mom's advice! Thanks to her as well!

[lovemayc.]

Your mom seems like a great person we could all learn something from. You should do a video with her in the future :)

[henrivelasquez]

Thanks for the tips! Even though I am not going to be a nurse or a doctor I want to do something crazy and get 4.50 hours of sleep so I can finish my sophomore work that I have missed in online school like 5 days. But I really respect the fact that even though y’all have it worst than me it makes me think that I will push through this and be great.

[Renee-Heal-The-Eagle]

Right now nursing school is killing my sleep game LOL...💯💯💯

[missykim]

Caroline, your motivation monday videos are my fave! Starting my first job soon as a new grad rn and I'm nervous but excited at the same time :)

[michelemcgill]

Your mum is wise. After 43 years of nursing, I just run with it. Some days, I have a great sleep, some, not so. Swings and merry go rounds.

[minmatenx]

... not a nurse but ty for easing my mind a little. Its gonna be okay

[WaterBabyKendra]

TFS! This video really helped. I no longer do nights but I did for 4 years and it can definitely be depressing and it seems many of your non-nursing friends or family may not understand and think your just living the life making nursing night shift money but money isn't everything-sanity is! 😂 and your videos help so much 💕

[pfuwohd]

I gotta work in 2 and a hakf hours. Been up all night. This is true. I'll get good sleep tonight.

[janedoe]

Do you ever plan on becoming a mom? Have you ever been a labor and delivery nurse?

[jennifers]

You've obviously never had insomnia lol