A Day in the Life of a Night-Shift Nurse’s Spouse/Roommate

Kati Kleber (aka Nurse Eye Roll) knows what it’s like to live among night-shift nurses. In fact, she’s broken a typical day down into fragments that are so accurate, it’s kind of terrifying: 

0830: Your nursey spouse/roommate gets home after their shift.

0832: While you’re trying to eat breakfast, they start telling you about their shift.

0835: They’re fighting to stay awake when you start talking.

0837: Um, yeah. They’re done.

1200: You come home for lunch ever so quietly.

1210: Mid-lunch break, your neighbor starts to mow his lawn and your nurse wakes up.

1212: Now they’re starving and eat the first 12 things they see.

1217: Back to bed!

1700: You get home from work and they’re just waking up, about to make their breakfast/dinner half asleep.

1730: You just got out of your work clothes and they’re headed to work.

0221: They send you 50 text messages about something crazy that just happened at work.

To read more, visit NurseEyeRoll.com.

Learning how to be a great nurse at the bedside while maintaining your sanity at home is no easy task. Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Take Care of Your Patients and Yourself talks about how to realistically live as a nurse, both at home and at the bedside…with a little humor and some shenanigans along the way. Get ready: It’s about to get real, real nursey. You can get your own copy at NurseEyeRoll.com, Amazon or Goodreads (ebook).