OR Nursing - what are your hours?

brewerpaul · Jan 16, 2008

I do Mon-Fri, 7A-3P plus call. I love this schedule.

MamaCheese · Jan 17, 2008

I also do mon-fri 7a-7p. Our OR offers 4 10s (7a-5p), 3 12s (7a-7p), and 5 8s (7a-3p).

oldcop · Jan 17, 2008

Ok...maybe a stupid ? but are most hospital OR's Mon. - Fri.?

OR male nurse · Jan 18, 2008

I work 6:30 - 3:00 M-F. Most days I don't get a 1/2 hour lunch so I'm outta there at 2:30. Call is extra time put in. We are open 24/7/365 to accommodate all your surgical needs......

EvaJ · Jan 18, 2008

In the OR where I work, we only have 8 hour shifts. It's strange though, because all the other nurses in the hospital seem to work 12 hour shifts. But I love my 7am-3pm schedule, you still have so much of the day left after work, and those 8 hours at work just FLY by.

k8dubcoran · Jan 21, 2008

thanks for all your input - i was looking for 3 12's just because of my commute to work parking is about $25 a day so 3 days would be 75 a week but mon -fri is 125. i hate the city! i do like 8's but sometimes once im at work im fine to stay a little longer. GETTING to work is the part thats annoying. i like my sleep. so the more days i can sleep in the better.

mountaintex · Jan 21, 2008

I have an interview for an OR position this week - i wanted to know what your typical schedule is? I had my heart set on working 3 12 hour shifts - since thats what almost every nurse in our area does ( not OR - i had originally planned on med/surg).
So i assumed id most likely be working day shifts in the OR- but didnt know if id be doing the traditional 7a- 7p? OR always seemed more of a mon-fri job to me . is this the case? How many days a week do you work and how many hours on those days???
:cheers:

You should know that taking call is almost always expected in an OR job, and time limits the distance that you can be from the hospital. How are you going to accomodate that?

richardsrl · Jan 22, 2008

I work 4 nine hour shifts (6am to 3:30pm) to total 36/week, Mon-Fri with days off alternating between Mon or Fri. It is an in-house Women's surgery center (we do scheduled C sections, hysterectomies, laparoscopies, uterine ablations, D&Cs, TVT/TOTs, etc) only open Mon-Fri 7-3 (there is of course, a main OR open 24/7). But ours is all inclusive in that everyone (except me) does everything...admit, follow through the OR and recover the pt. I am an in-house trained RNSA, so I am always in the OR, but can admit, recover, etc. I should back-track, though, and say we do take call about every 16 weeks on Saturday from 7am to noon. It is about 50-50 whether or not you get called in.

It is an excellent job and I am pretty happy with it :)

heather2084, BSN · Jan 25, 2008

At my hospital, work hours start at 0630 and go until whenever. We have a call team, a stuck team, and then the rest of the people are let out in order according to the number of hours worked the day before and when the schedule says we can start letting teams go. Each team has a call day and a stuck day once a week and weekend call on rotation.

I love what I do and the people I do it with, but I absolutely HATE never being able to say I will be off by so and so time.

AmyBRN · Jan 31, 2008

I'm going to be training on the 8a-4p shift. Once I'm off of orientation I will be working 1200-0030, 3 days a week, no 4th day (which is what they do at someother area hospitals). I was also told that you have to sign up for 5 8-hour call shifts a month, but can "sell" them off, but it is not suggested in the beginning to do that, so I can get more experience. My OR training is going to be almost a year, so I won't be on th 12.5 hr. schedule, for at least a year.

Amy