If you work nights, what is your job?

[LudoBear]

And what does it involve?

Used to work nights as a carer in an independent living complex. Worked on my own for 9 hour shifts and responded if somebody pressed their buzzer (usually 1 or 2 called a night, if that!) spent most of my time watching Netflix on my laptop!

Carer in a home for disabled adults 9:30pm - 07:30am. Between 10-2am I’m really busy putting people to bed and cleaning, then 4 hours of answering buzzers (but mostly watching Netflix on my ipad!) then 6-7:30 I’m getting people up. I work with one other person.

3 12 /12 hr night shifts 1 week and 4 the other. Work as a senior carer in a dementia unit 19.45-08.15.

Hotel Night Manager.

Not as exciting as the TV show would have you think

Mostly reassuring the worried well. Often holding my tongue.
Occasionally having to put my brain into gear and intervene using the skills I'm actually paid for.

Paramedic. It's as busy at night as it in the day usually.

Clinical Nursery Nurse on the complex care team, looking after children with complex health needs at home. Most of our children were home ventilated and needed 24/7 care, we would sit in with them so the parents/carer could sleep. The children also were often on tube feeds via a pump and lots of them had complex epilepsy too.

I was also a Nursery Nurse on a neonatal ward, we looked after mums and babies where mum was fit for discharge post delivery but baby wasn't or those that had gone home but then needed phototherapy for jaundice so lots and lots of breast feeding support in that role.

I was a carer in a children's hospice so our nights there were often busy, we did respite care for children with life limiting conditions and we also cared for children who were at the end of their life.

I'm a midwife.

Doesn't need much explanation!