Right now I work in a 25 bed hospital. I think we have around 40 nurses total. We have 8 hours shifts, but if you want to, you can work 12 hour shifts on the weekends. You can choose to do either 7-7 or 11-11, am or pm side is determined by your seniority. There are quite a few nurses that long to be straight 12 hour shifts, with the extra 8 hours to equal 80 hours worked in there somewhere. I dont see us going to straight 12 hours because we have a lot of day shift nurses that had to work for 15 years to get their 7am-3pm and they dont want to give that up. So, after all that, my question is, if you worked in a facility that was 8 hours adn is now 12 hours, how did it go? Was there a vote to get it implemented? Did staff quit over it? How was it determined if the hours would be 7-7, 303 or 11-11? (Most of us work 11-11 and that works better for us than 7-7)
Jessica