Hi everyone, I returned to acute care and am on orientation this week. I survived my first 12 hour shift and was curious as to if anyone has heard of 10 hour shifts for nursing?? I know the business world does these and usually working four 10 hour shifts meets full-time requirements. I realize with our 24 hour coverage there would be 4 hours that would need either part-time or PRN staff. Just curious. My body wants to quit at 1600!!!
BriManRN 100 Posts Nov 11, 2014 I know some ERs have all types of 10hr shifts but don't know about other units
loriangel14, RN 6,931 Posts Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative. Nov 11, 2014 I have never seen any 10 hour shifts.
HappyWife77, BSN, RN 739 Posts Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student. Has 23 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 Have you tried taking late lunch breaks? I try to do lunch around 2 or 2:30pm then once I get back...its almost time to go home. I've never heard of 10 hour shifts unless management does them, not staff nurses as we need our floor coverage 24 hours.
proud nurse, BSN, RN 556 Posts Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia. Has 15 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 We don't have them at our hospital. But if we did, I'd want to change from my 12 hour shifts.
ButterflyRN90 1 Article; 535 Posts Specializes in Renal and Telemetry. Has 5 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 I do 10 hr shifts in PDN.
Caffeine_IV 1,198 Posts Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice. Has 7 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 I think surgery areas like PACU, OR, Pre holding do 10 hours. The cath lab here does them also.
allnurses Guide Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN 4 Articles; 7,907 Posts Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions. Nov 11, 2014 I have seen 10 hour shifts in our intake department (psych).
RNperdiem, RN 4,580 Posts Has 14 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 At my hospital dialysis works 10 hour shifts. They do have to take call though.
Calinurse4 315 Posts Specializes in Perinatal. Has 3 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 I'm in L&D and there are several nurses who work 10's. They are "old" positions that are no longer available; once they leave or retire the position will no longer exist. I am actually a little confused by it since they first hour and last hour they are not really doing much since they either have yet to get report or have already reported off.
Editorial Team / Admin Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN 6 Articles; 11,337 Posts Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development. Has 18 years experience. Nov 11, 2014 We have 10 hr shifts in the OR.Same here, but it's a very limited number to balance out later running surgeries. Vast majority are 8 hours.
