How often do you take a break?

cathy2 · Mar 8, 2006

Well hospitals here are becoming no smoking zones, but I am sure that will also cause problems because people who want a smoke are still going to do so.Goooooooooooooooooooooooood luck to them.

onconurseRT · Mar 8, 2006

:uhoh21: :uhoh21: Evidently there is a law out there that says nurses can get a lunch break and a chance to use the restroom but I don't ever see that where I work.:uhoh21: :uhoh21: I have many times went home after 9 hours with a full bladder and an empty stomach. :madface:

Darlene K. · Mar 8, 2006

We are supposed to get a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks. I usually get the 30 minute break but can't remember the last time I got a 15 minute break.

nonie · Mar 13, 2006

On a Psych unit a break is a foreign word as most of us have no idea what that is......:chuckle

LTCRN4LIFE · Apr 5, 2006

I took my breaks when I was a smoker...but I haven't smoked since 1996 so you figure it out. Haven't had a break since!

NephroBSN, BSN, RN · Apr 5, 2006

Doing an assignment, interested in finding out if nurses take a break during their shift? Presuming the majority don't.

As a chronic hemodialysis nurse when I work 12 hour shifts I take three half hour breaks.

Breakfast, lunch and suppa as we Mainahs call it..

The company docks me for a half hour.

I've always taken my breaks. For meals. Even when I worked M/S. for 15 years.

pickledpepperRN · Apr 5, 2006

As a chronic hemodialysis nurse when I work 12 hour shifts I take three half hour breaks.
Breakfast, lunch and suppa as we Mainahs call it..
The company docks me for a half hour.
I've always taken my breaks. For meals. Even when I worked M/S. for 15 years.

Who is responsible for your patients when you are on a meal break?

LTCRN4LIFE · Apr 5, 2006

oooh Nephro...you are the lucky one.....your getting more than they have to give you!

suzy253, RN · Apr 5, 2006

I get to take a break and sit down when I have to go pee...and I'm just a student.

NephroBSN, BSN, RN · Apr 5, 2006

Who is responsible for your patients when you are on a meal break?

The other nurses and tech. I'm a shout away even. And when they go to breakfast and lunch and suppa, guess what I watch their patients.

It's an idea, as nurses and techs, working together, we thought up alllllllllllllllll by ourselves.

Novel idea eh? :idea: :uhoh3:

NephroBSN, BSN, RN · Apr 5, 2006

oooh Nephro...you are the lucky one.....your getting more than they have to give you!

But see they know they do have to give it to us.. Dialysis nurses don't fall off trees..

And heck I don't even work for the company.

I'm a traveler.

But when I did work for a company in Maine and we worked 12 hour days we got out at 1830 so we mostly didn't do suppa but we did take 45 mins at noon..We worked it out with our teammate. Ya know you cover me for 45 I'll cover you for 45.

One of the many perks in working dialysis.. Small group of people and we watch out for each other.

We are allowed to give each other PTO if the person is short and needs it for an emergency.

When I worked in Wilmington DE. one of the nurse's sister was shot where she worked over Christmas. The nurse was a new employee 2-3 months and the other employees gave her PTO so she could still have an income

Now that's unity, that's nurses working for the common good. And it didn't cost them a dime

Heck this particular dialysis company gives 5 weeks of PTO the first year. You can't start using it until you've been there 6 months.

The company is based out of Germany. The Europeans value vacation.

nicolentony · Apr 5, 2006

I usually won't take a break. I work 11p-7a in an ICU. We are usually short staffed. I bring in food, and only leave my rooms to sit at the nurses station to eat. Sometimes it is so busy, my only way to get a "BREAK" is to pee in the hallway bathroom. (Close enough to hear the alarms and vent alarms go off in my patients room.) (Sigh!)I am not a smoker. They are usually the only ones who take breaks. It's their right, ya know! :uhoh3: