I am not a nurse but I totally agree the life changing experience of shift work. I was a shift worker for 5 years, day afternoon and night shift, 7 days roster means no public holiday and weekends.
YES you could argue in Australia you would get penalty rate from 30% normal weekday night shift pay or double or triple pay for PH work, but after a while...say 2years on your body started to used up... in my case.. I was tired all the time. Each day got about 2 to 3 hrs worth of energy. I wanted to sleep more at the time but the body just cannot ajust itself so in average i have about 5hrs broken sleep.
I totally agree....dingdingding
BTW - SHIFT work minus FUN become SHIT work... that said it all. |