RE: Night nurse and having a dog

Mark Hedberg — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:43:49 GMT

Glad you enjoy night work - have you ever worked a 7 on/7 off work schedule? You'll spend the first two days of your 'off' week readjusting to day work.

RE: Night nurse and having a dog

k.91 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:18:12 GMT

I personally don't work nights,but quite a few of our night staff bring their dogs to work, we have just finished a specific staff dog kennel block for them. They get out a few times during the night (no long walks but a quick 5 minute run around), even on crazy busy nights. Its just down to your employer i guess

RE: Night nurse and having a dog

Steph Worsley — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:16:23 GMT

Wont your partner be at home when you're at work so the dog wouldn't be alone?

I do think that having someone coming in and out during the day would disturb your sleep patterns (especially if the dog you have gets excited/barks when someone comes in.

I know plenty of people who have dogs and work night shifts and live on their own, they are taken out before the person leaves for work and again straight away when they get in and feed....night person then goes to bed and takes out again and feed when they wake up.

It's not really any different to working days dog would entertain itself/sleep during the day when you are at work (or asleep working nights) and the same at night.

Also you have to consider if the practice you are working at allows staff pets on site when they are well, (healthy) staff dogs are not allowed in our kennel areas unless in extreme circumstances (i.e. they belong to the vet who is staying in the hospital all weekend) primarily from an infection control point of view, for the same reason the main office is at the "human" end of our hospital and animals are not allowed to even be walked down that corridor so staff dogs can't stay in the office.