Are all hospitals 12 hr shifts?

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Hi, I'm a pre-nursing students with just some info on 12 hr and 8 hr shifts. Can you choose? When I had my son at northwestern prentice in nov 2007. The nurses were on 8 hour shifts. I had my daughter in march of this year and the nurses told me they all have to do strickly 12 hour shifts. Is that every hospital?

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Specializes in Neuroscience/Neuro-surgery/Med-Surgical/.

All depends on the hospital needs. I work at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and most floor RNs must work 12 hour shifts. Different departments work 8 or 10 hour shifts. I have worked at Illinois Masonic on med-surgical floor and they worked both 8 and 12 hour shifts.

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Hi,

All hospitals have different kinds of shifts.

Some might have only 8 hr shifts = 40hrs.

Some might have only 12 hr shifts which they call .9 (12hrs X 3= 36hrs)

Some hospitals might have a combination of 2/12hr shifts and 2/8 hr shifts = 40hrs OR

Some hospitals have only 4/8hr shifts which they call .8

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