How are CNA shifts usually divided?

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Well, I actually got a CNA job-- yay!! What a CONCEPT. :p A job, where they pay you money... just imagine...

Anyway. The way they divide it up is two twelve-hour shift days, then two days off, then three twelve-hour shift days, then three days off, so forty-eight hours a week, then it starts all over again. Now, at this point, I'm not picky and I'll pretty much do anything-- I actually prefer twelve-hour shifts-- but I still wonder how average this is. It seems to me that I heard more about three days on and four days off. What does everyone think?

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The places I worked had 8 hour shifts. Looking back on it, I doubt that I would have liked 12 hour shifts no matter how they sliced it. Good luck with your new job!

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BTW, I think I understand it now... the way they divide it really is a little bit confusing. It's Monday and Tuesday on, Wednesday and Thursday off, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on one week. Then, the following week, it's Monday and Tuesday off, Wednesday and Thursday on, and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off. So the entire schedule averages out to 42 hours a week. I think the best way to understand it would be as two days on, two days off, three days on, two days off, and two days on, three days off. Then the whole cycle starts again. If I have to start at 6 a.m. (which I do with this shift) I'd really think that I'd much rather do it this way than as a regular 5-day-a-week cycle. T(hank God that the end of daylight savings time is coming soon! I never, EVER get used to it all year long. ;))

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