Does your facility have 12 hour shifts or 8 hour shifts?

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I was just wondering. I know 12 hour shifts are mostly in hospitals, but I have a friend who works in another facility and she does 12 hour shifts. Mine only has 8 hour shifts.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I live in a large metropolitan area. The vast majority of nursing homes in this area staff using 8 hour shifts, but a small handful of facilities offer 12-hour shifts.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

My hospital has both. Some positions are all 12s or all 8s and some are a mix.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

Mine had mainly 8 but made arrangements with some nurses to work 12s

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Mostly 12s with some who work 8s, but the ones who work 8s seem to have been there forever.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

A good facility should offer both with 12's being the standard and 8's available for those who need / want them. I would assume any facility that is hard and fast for either one to probably not be a good place to work.

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Most of the places I go to have both, but some only have 8. I like to work 12s whenever I can.

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Specializes in LTC.

8 hours. I wouldn't mind 12 hours and I actually suggested that when there was scheduling issues awhile back and was told, "We can't do that because if there were call-outs nobody would be able to stay for a double shift.." I just let it go.. thats a whole other rant and rave.

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

When I first started in aged care, it was in a 27 bed 'low care' (ha!) facility. The evening/night shift person worked from 3pm -10pm then 'slept' (double ha!) from 10pm-6am then did an hours med run/resident check before day shift arrived at 7am. This was okay for a while but obviously the level of care increased and we were woken almost every hour by call bells... If we got any sleep at all. What a way to save money hey!? But one night a man on drugs smashed his way inside and attacked the woman on duty, this was the ONLY reason they started having 2 staff on overnight.

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Specializes in Allergy/ENT, Occ Health, LTC/Skilled.

8 hours. If I work there full time/ part time I wouldn't because I would want 12 hour shifts. But I am in school and 8 hour shifts are a good fit for PRN. They really need to switch to 12's because they are constantly trying to find someone to fill the full time second shift jobs.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
They really need to switch to 12's because they are constantly trying to find someone to fill the full time second shift jobs.
Yep. In the area where I live, very few nurses enjoy working the 3 to 11pm shift. It's become the time slot they take until they can find a job with more attractive working hours. Therefore, the employee turnover rate for this shift is high.
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Both. I work 1-8 hour shift and 2-12 hour shifts a week.

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