Do night shift nurses actually need their own community?

I wrote a small book called Fueling the Night Shift - it's about what nurses eat, or don't eat, on 12-hour overnights. Vending machine dinners at 3am, coffee as a food group, the 4am crash that no amount of caffeine fixes.

What surprised me wasn't the nutrition research. It was how alone people sounded.

Night shift nurses live on an inverted clock. Their friends are asleep when they're working and awake when they're sleeping. Day shift coworkers don't really get it. Their families don't really get it. Most wellness advice assumes you eat breakfast in the morning and sleep when it's dark - useless if your body is running eight hours out of phase with the rest of the world.

So here's what I keep circling back to:

Is there room for an actual community for night shift nurses? Not another Facebook group full of memes and travel-nurse recruiters. Something smaller - shift-hour meal swaps, sleep protocols that actually work, people online at 3am who understand why you're online at 3am.

Or does it already exist and I just haven't found it?

Genuinely asking. If you've built a community around an unglamorous, specific niche like this - did the "we're the only ones awake right now" angle hold it together, or did it fade once the novelty wore off?

Book's here if useful for context: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC52ZHYT

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Do night shift nurses actually need their own community?