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The nurses I know have schedules that cap at three 12-hour days per week (36 hours/week). What kind of nurses work 80 hours a week?
by littleweep 12y ago
The nurses I know have schedules that cap at three 12-hour days per week (36 hours/week). What kind of nurses work 80 hours a week?
- arbitrage 12y agoLikewise. My wife has now, and has had in the past at other nursing jobs, strict rules regarding overage time.
- sliverstorm 12y agoThere's a whole lot of different work schedules for nurses. I never knew until I started rubbing shoulders with a large number of them.
- bkjelden 12y agoDemand can be very bursty for nursing. My wife works in postpartum care, and while she usually works 3 12.5 hr shifts per week, if the hospital is going through a busy time it can be more. In addition to her normal scheduled hours, she will have a few on-call shifts per month, and during feb-april (usually the busiest time of year around here) it's pretty much assumed that she'll get called in for these. In addition to the scheduled on-call shifts it's usually not hard to find other times that the hospital is in need. Of course even at that, I don't think she's ever worked more than like, 60 hrs a week. I can't imagine anyone working 80 hr weeks consistently in nursing. It doesn't even seem safe - nursing is very physically and mentally demanding work, someone consistently overworked is much more likely to make mistakes.
- gnopgnip 12y agoDoes that include any on call time?