Saturday: Worked on 3 hours of sleep
Sunday: Worked on 4 hours of sleep
I've been following this novella and this is the first post that has kind of pissed me off. Watching a fool get his heart stomped on can pass for entertainment, but I've had loved ones in intensive care recently and I saw how critical nurses are. If I knew any of them were partying the night before and working on a few hours of sleep, I wouldn't want them in charge of medications, checking vitals, whether a doctor should come and check something that looks odd, etc. You're impaired whether you admit it to yourself or not, and frigging 5-hour energy is not any kind of compensation for lack of sleep and being hung over. You're taking a pretty cavalier attitude with patients' lives IMO.
If I worked intensive care, there would be no way I work on that few hours of sleep. I float to various units now (Med-surg, pedi, and psych) and while it may not make you feel any better but last weekend I worked in the psych unit. Pretty much a physically healthy population. We're just there to make sure they don't kill themselves or others. You have no idea how much down time there is on a psych unit.
If I was scheduled to work in the other 2 units no way I work on that few hours of sleep.Plus if you read the posts. I didn't drink at all last weekend.
On Friday I was the DD. Just hung out with friends and watched them get #### faced.
On Saturday we went out an watched the Dark Knight at 2030. The movie ended nearly at midnight and then we ate afterwards.
I understand the concern, but I do take my job very seriously.
Sure I may have lacked some sleep, but I was far from being hung over.