Swing Shift, please help. ideas?
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Swing Shift, please help. ideas?

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Posted by apearl17 on December 06, 2009 at 20:36:35:

Hi,
Currently, I work nights one week a month, but soon it will be more like one week every five or six weeks.
Working nights means that I don't find out when I'm needed usually until 4PM that day, sometimes as late as 10PM. If medical tissue does not arrive, I am to work 4pm to midnight. If it does arrive, I have to stay until the work is done and sometimes this means until 8am. There have been cases where i've worked between 12-17 hours, but usually this is not the case. Day shift is 9am-about 6pm or sometimes 7pm. Sometimes I have to work weekends too.
I have trouble falling and staying asleep now. Could you please send me advice? I have difficulty just going to bed sooner...I did that tonight and woke up four hours later, at midnight.

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