How quickly does your shift go by?

It depends on the day... new admits? and other stuff like that.

Usually it's "wow, I've only an hour 'til report..."

That's something that I love about nursing... the days fly by.

Depends on the day, what's going on in the unit and how the computers are behaving. Somedays, it goes so quickly and others you're wondering "Is it still 0900, are the batteries dead in that clock...I've been here forever!" Work in Peds ICU.

It really varies.

Last week I had one patient in the burn center. He was sedated, ventilated, the dressing had been done on night shift, and his vital signs were stable. I did nothing beyond the routine care of turning, taking vitals, assessments, charting, etc. He didn't even have visitors and the doctors orders were minimal. That was a very slow day.

The week before I had 2 patients in another ICU. One was going into alcohol withdrawl (in addition to his injuries that brought him to ICU) and the other patient was having cardiac issues. Both of them had multiple family members in to visit, there were many doctors orders, travel off the unit and more to do than I think I could fit into one day. That shift went by so quickly.

I work 12 hour nights and usually go by pretty quick. Most patients don't sleep like the world thinks. I spend a lot of quality time teaching and talking with patients and their families... Love nursing.

Really depends on the day, acuity of the patients, what gang of doctors we have that particular month and whether of not my coworkers are in a good mood or griping!!! I work in MICU

Day shift go by fast for me, evening shift can be a drag sometimes.

depends on the day. some days fly by and others drag. it depends on the patient or patients i have, whether or not i'm precepting, who i'm working with and how much sleep i got before my shift.

i work in sicu.

It depends on how busy I am. If I have an emergency or an admit.. time flies.... otherwise, between 2-3a is usually pretty quiet and slow, and I try to get charting and other things completed by that time.

I work in the Infirmary of a prison.

I work in psych, 7p-7a. From 7p-12 midnight, it's usually pretty busy between groups, meds, snack, helping patients with getting ADL supplies, doing laundry but once midnight hits, it's hit or miss, waiting for admissions. The rest of the shift is spent doing chart checks, catching up on documentation and preparing report for the morning. If we've got a lot of admissions and they're not spaced out, I find myself barely looking at the clock. If they're spaced out and we're well staffed, I'll look up at the clock occasionally. If our unit is full, I look at the clock sometimes, waiting for someone to go ape$hit.

Time just flies by for me. I work 7P - 7A. The closer it is to 7a, the faster the time flies. I work med/surg/neuro ICU. My unit is the code team and rapid response team too, so many times we are out of our staffing grid of 1:2.

The charting alone occupies at least 2 hours if I was uninterrupted. If I find my shift a little slow, others can always use help.