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In my state NY, you can legally be scheduled to work no more than a 16 hours shift per day.
However three weekends ago I was on call, I work 30 hours over the weekend, with 20 hours of non stop work. Nothing I could do about it.
The hospital gets away with it by saying "you were not scheduled to work that 20 hours, you just got un-lucky and had a busy OR schedule that weekend - you could have clocked out for an hour and grabbed a nap while waiting for the next case" Yeah, right, bite me!
Sucks sometimes - and not at all safe.
RNmom08
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I am from Iowa and I have looked through the IA BON website and couldn't find any information. How many hours can a nurse work in a row legally? Also how about in an emergency? We were talking about it at work and no one really was sure if it was 20hrs or what it was. Does anyone have any idea??