I Can Sleep Better

What is it about people who work the third shift? I have always thought that they are just a little “off” but lately I am becoming more sure of that fact.

I am the CT/Angio supervisor at a Small rural hospital in PA and can not believe some of the things that I have gotten woken up about.

I think that the worst of them was when I was working in Florida and one of my young techs called me regarding some power issues with the scanner. I asked him to check the fuses and make sure that none of them had been “tripped”. He was 23, handsome, smart and a really good CT technologist, but knew nothing about a breaker switch. I drove the 25 minutes to the hospital at 2:30 in the morning went to the breakers, found the tripped breaker, pushed it up and then down and Voila everything was back up and working.

When I think of all those ridiculous questions in the middle of the night I have to wonder what goes through these peoples minds. Don’t they know that normal people sleep better when they are not disturbed just after they have fallen asleep.

I had another one of those calls just this morning. I wasn’t supposed to hear my cell phone going off at 6 in the morning in the other room. But I did and I was told that “I didn’t mean to wake you.” I would rather have had my home phone ring at that hour so that I could have answered it but instead, I had to get up out of bed just in time to miss the call. I tried to call work but they were busy leaving me a message that they were sick and probably would not be in this evening.

I can not imagine working the third shift but would like to think that those who do would sleep better without phone calls during their sleeping times.