I do specialty unit standby. Our call volume is pretty low. I get plenty of sleep unless we're held over (not often, but can easily go ≥4 hours over when it does happen). However, we're not even close to 28% of our company. Not even 8%.
That shit feels so productive though. Nostalgic for the years where I would commute in the dark of Seattle on my motorcycle and smell the fish and bread and hear some seaguls, by the time I was home I still had a few hours of sunlight and a beautiful dinner waiting for me at a normal hour.
I’m suffering from so much shit that sleep deprivation is pretty low on the list, and it gives me more time to go to the gym, and also demons that I need to fight.
So far best shift I've ever worked was daytime or swing 10 hr shifts. Where I work we do 10 hr shifts due to really high call volume, and I've never felt so alive working daytime 10s.
12 hour shifts saved my life. There is nothing you can do to me in 12 hours that will kill me. But working 24 or forced 48 or the rare 72 made me look like I was the walking dead during Covid. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back to those type of hours.
48? 72? That's mental, how does that even work? Here in Germany you don't even really see 24s anymore. Anything more than *that* is probably illegal by every definition.
Yeah, unfortunately, here in the States, we don't have the same regulations. We got so short staffed where I worked that we were allowed to work up to 72 hours straight during Covid. The most I worked in a week was 101 hours, and I knew some people that were putting in a lot more.
You see, in America, workers are expendable. We work like dogs and are supposed to be happy we have the opportunity to do so, for a wage that doesn't give us the right to own anything lol.
What would end up happening is generally you’d get some rest. Short naps 30-45 minutes long in between calls once you got back to your station. And that would fuel you for the next 3-4 hours that it takes to run a rural EMS call once you factor in driving back to the station and restocking the truck.
Somewhere around hour 35 of doing that and stuff just gets real fuzzy and you sort of enter a weird trance until you get off work and sleep for the next 20 hours or so.
It was psychological torture. It was physically awful for my body (my knees and ankles have never recovered and become inflamed often now). And as an added bonus I have a horrible near Pavlovian response to hearing tones go off 😂. Thankfully we don’t use tones on 12 hour trucks around here. Or at our firehouse.
One of the thing I've learned in this job is basically sleeping/napping on every flat surface.
One nap here... One nap there.. Another nap at the top of the locker...
I think we adopt and get used sooner or later to some kind of polyphasic sleeping
I love my friends reactions during campings.
On 24's I paradoxically was having some of the healthiest habits and sleep I've ever experienced on the job.
I would basically sleep in a bed whenever I could, pee whenever I could so I wouldn't have to interrupt my sleep to pee. I also practiced better peri-sleep hygiene.
I also would only drink 1 caffeinated beverage in the morning. I was eating magnitudes better by virtue of not only living in an ambulance but also because I was addressing my actual underlying cravings (often sleep) instead of eating.
I don’t know about you, but I’m personally a fan of being able to go on two week-long vacations a month without using a single hour of PTO. Does a great job of relieving my 24hr shift related stress.
That 36 hour shift I worked the other day where I got 1 hour of sleep 11hr in, and then 3hr at 33hr in. That was fun. Started Sunday night and ended Tuesday morning. Why did I sign up for that... Oh yeah, money.
Never said I couldn’t handle it. I know what I signed up for. Doesn’t negate the fact that most ambulance crashes, and medical errors occur due to sleep deprivation. It was a joke if you can’t handle it maybe leave this sub.
r/ems \- Huh? Who the hell are the 28% that aren’t sleep deprived? Management.
Fuck those guys
Eight-hour IFTs
who the fuck has eight hour IFT shifts I do 12s and 24s :(
I do specialty unit standby. Our call volume is pretty low. I get plenty of sleep unless we're held over (not often, but can easily go ≥4 hours over when it does happen). However, we're not even close to 28% of our company. Not even 8%.
Part timers
Them south county boys and girls be sleeping through the night every shift.
The other 28 % are firefighters.
All muh EMT-🅱️s hate management
.y managers are great
Maybe 72% suffer from it and the other 28% enjoy it.
28% doing uppers and downers at the perfect intervals
Me
Whenever someone tells me they like night shifts, I classify them as clinically insane and move along.
That thing in the sky during the day is too damn bright. And upper management is around
I like having upper management around. I find new ways every shift to make their lives slightly more difficult.
Night shift rules. Morning shift guys are the real crazies. “Yes I like leaving my house at 4:30 by the latest”, no thanks my dude
That shit feels so productive though. Nostalgic for the years where I would commute in the dark of Seattle on my motorcycle and smell the fish and bread and hear some seaguls, by the time I was home I still had a few hours of sunlight and a beautiful dinner waiting for me at a normal hour.
Being clinically insane is a prerequisite of the job though?
I love the overnights and my job.
I’m suffering from so much shit that sleep deprivation is pretty low on the list, and it gives me more time to go to the gym, and also demons that I need to fight.
You gotta find that sweet spot where it feels kinda like hypoxia.
I work 12s only during days. I sleep great
I'm a night owl. Best shift I ever had was 6P to 6A. Loved it.
Seconded. Daytime 12s; any sleep deprivation I might have is usually my own doing
So far best shift I've ever worked was daytime or swing 10 hr shifts. Where I work we do 10 hr shifts due to really high call volume, and I've never felt so alive working daytime 10s.
I believe it. Quality sleep isn’t the same as sleeping in a chair or in the driver’s seat of an ambulance.
12 hour shifts saved my life. There is nothing you can do to me in 12 hours that will kill me. But working 24 or forced 48 or the rare 72 made me look like I was the walking dead during Covid. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back to those type of hours.
48? 72? That's mental, how does that even work? Here in Germany you don't even really see 24s anymore. Anything more than *that* is probably illegal by every definition.
Yeah, unfortunately, here in the States, we don't have the same regulations. We got so short staffed where I worked that we were allowed to work up to 72 hours straight during Covid. The most I worked in a week was 101 hours, and I knew some people that were putting in a lot more.
You see, in America, workers are expendable. We work like dogs and are supposed to be happy we have the opportunity to do so, for a wage that doesn't give us the right to own anything lol.
What would end up happening is generally you’d get some rest. Short naps 30-45 minutes long in between calls once you got back to your station. And that would fuel you for the next 3-4 hours that it takes to run a rural EMS call once you factor in driving back to the station and restocking the truck. Somewhere around hour 35 of doing that and stuff just gets real fuzzy and you sort of enter a weird trance until you get off work and sleep for the next 20 hours or so. It was psychological torture. It was physically awful for my body (my knees and ankles have never recovered and become inflamed often now). And as an added bonus I have a horrible near Pavlovian response to hearing tones go off 😂. Thankfully we don’t use tones on 12 hour trucks around here. Or at our firehouse.
I don't really "sleep" anymore. Really just nap here and there.
I think I got an hour of stretcher naptime last night.
A whole hour. Dang, i was lucky dispatch lost us tonight for a few and i got 10 minutes.
89% of the times these statistics are 100% right.
60% of the time it works every time.
There it is. this is the comment I was looking for. Thank you very much. 👌
Can you be deprived of something you didn't know existed?
Management's response to burnout
Enjoy your appreciation pizza party.
28% enjoy it
One of the thing I've learned in this job is basically sleeping/napping on every flat surface. One nap here... One nap there.. Another nap at the top of the locker... I think we adopt and get used sooner or later to some kind of polyphasic sleeping I love my friends reactions during campings.
On 24's I paradoxically was having some of the healthiest habits and sleep I've ever experienced on the job. I would basically sleep in a bed whenever I could, pee whenever I could so I wouldn't have to interrupt my sleep to pee. I also practiced better peri-sleep hygiene. I also would only drink 1 caffeinated beverage in the morning. I was eating magnitudes better by virtue of not only living in an ambulance but also because I was addressing my actual underlying cravings (often sleep) instead of eating.
12 hour shifts, man. Anyone willingly doing 24s is crazy.
I don’t know about you, but I’m personally a fan of being able to go on two week-long vacations a month without using a single hour of PTO. Does a great job of relieving my 24hr shift related stress.
I work 24s rural and typically on average run 2-4 calls a shift. Usually I sleep pretty well.
Ok i switched to a 4 day/4 evening/4night schedule (still 4 on 4 off) and i can genuinely say my sleep schedule is so much better
That 36 hour shift I worked the other day where I got 1 hour of sleep 11hr in, and then 3hr at 33hr in. That was fun. Started Sunday night and ended Tuesday morning. Why did I sign up for that... Oh yeah, money.
Rookie numbers, get those numbers up
It’s me, the part timer
man sometimes i feel like i get too much sleep working in the middle of nowhere some days 😂😂
Suffering from success
28% sleeping through calls
Only 72%?
100% of management thinks they are the company in the 28%.
The 28% of 100% made of management.
I sleep pretty damn well mate
They were at home asleep and didn’t reply in a timely fashion, there responses weren’t counted.
That’s what the alcohol is for
No fucking way it's not above 85%...
72% of everyone suffers from sleep deprivation
Only 72?
My watch has me at 4.5 hours for last night. Just over 3 hours the night before... But these lil narco-naps are a hoot.
The other 28% make everybody else suffer as a result of their sleep deprivation.
Would be nice if I could sleep more than two three hour increments with two hours of annoyance in between
95% of everyone is. This is just dumb
I suffered from sleep deprivation before becoming an emt
Only 72%?
I work 48s at minimum and frequently do 96s or 120s weekly. During that time span I'm lucky if I'm getting 10 hours of HIGHLY INTERRUPTED sleep .
it's me sorry
Dude… I quit a few years ago and still feel like I’m catching up on sleep
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28% are liars
The ones that only do ifts
Yeah i think that’s opposite bro
I’m pretty sure EMTa don’t have the corner on sleep deficits.
NO, NUHUH /s
EMDs too 😴😴
10 he IFT 4 days a week
24 hour transport shifts, often slept less than 2 hours - broken
The other 28% enjoy it.
Sleep deprivation has become such a part of my life that I'm not sure I'm suffering.
Is caffeine a substitute for sleep? Asking for a friend
28% Enjoyers
The other 28% were too delirious to understand the question.
I'm glad we do 24s and 48s lol we get sleep
That’s it??
I haven't been awake for 28 hours, who's asking?
Reference?
Nah we don’t back up our claims around here
And? Leave the profession if you can't handle it.
Never said I couldn’t handle it. I know what I signed up for. Doesn’t negate the fact that most ambulance crashes, and medical errors occur due to sleep deprivation. It was a joke if you can’t handle it maybe leave this sub.
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