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9:27 pm by llg, BSN, MSN, PhD Guide I think it is a great topic -- very relevant to what is happening in health care today. It touches a lot on topics that are "hot" right now, such as patient safety, economics, and RN work environment. Thank you very much for your feed back and encouragement. When we were doing our clinicals last quarter and the RN's on the floor had 5 patients at a time, I wondered when they were working 12 hour shifts how it would be if they ended up with 5 patients who were all very demanding of medical attention. If the day was tremendously busy how would they be coping at the eleventh and twelve hour.

Thank you very much for the feed back. I was thinking the same thing. Since there was a lot of research on this subject I would have no problem finding it.

I am a third year nursing student and getting ready for a class in nursing research. I thought a good research topic might be the 8 hour shift vs the 12 hour shift. The question would be does the difference of 4 hours more have any negative impact on patient care? What are your opinions on this as a topic for a research paper? I know a lot of hospitals have favored going to 12 hour shifts.