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My unit has lost four nurses to other non-hospital jobs, so the nurses can be home in the evening with their young children.
How did we ever get to 12 hour shifts?
How do we get OUT of them???
I only see them benifiting the hospitals or young nurses w/o families who enjoy the extra days off.
12 hrs nearly kill off us 'over forty' nurses, in sheer physical exhaustion
(my first day off is spent w/ feet up and naps, recouperatiing...)
12 hrs means gone before children go to school and gone when they come home and go to bed.
12 hr shifts leave so many of us so tired and 'burned out' that it is difficult to care about the Profession of Nursing, like participation in our nursing organizations, getting quality CEUs, etc.
QUESTION: are 12 hr shifts helping or hurting the nursing profession?
Haze