Yep. Same here. We transport the child and his/her family if that’s what they want. We do the paperwork and allow the family some time with their recently deceased child. We also open the morgue in the days that follow if the family need some more time. The social worker usually attends as well.
Nowhere I’ve worked calls it ‘graveyard’ shift. ‘Bloody nightshift’ is its usual moniker.
I worked the graveyard shift in a hospital.
The mid watch is the 12-4 watch. A grave shift is the 12:00 midnight to 8:00 Am shift.
Fresh out of high school in West Texas, I worked the graveyard shift in a convenience store for a while. That’s what the business called it verbally, although I don’t recall if it was called that in writing in any official documents.
So, you’re both citing zombie threads? 
For ralph (whose Google skills are moribund).
Sometimes I’m tempted, when writing up an autopsy report, to say that “the patient’s pupils were reactive to light and accommodation”, just to see if anyone is paying attention. :eek:
In the Navy a watch is four hours. After 20 years in the Navy, midnight-to-eight becomes figuratively a ‘midwatch’.