Report me???

Editorial Team / Admin · Aug 22, 2015

Sometimes. I've also worked more than 24 hours in a row. Part of the hazards of working on a specialty OR team where we take a boatload of call. Now, I do know my limits, and I've asked to leave if I feel unsafe if I was called in during the night. Usually, though, I don't even have to ask as my boss has already figured out how to make the scheduled cases work while sending the call team home.

NOADLS · Aug 22, 2015

Unless that co-worker has sufficient evidence to suggest that you're working unsafely during a 60+ hour work week, then it is an empty threat.

You don't have to tell that person how much you are (or aren't) working.

I would actually report that person to management for having made such a threat.

Altra, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2015

"Report you" to whom?

MendedHeart · Aug 22, 2015

I think she was referring to the BON. I was very suprised she said that, she's an older Nurse who is about to retire

amoLucia · Aug 23, 2015

How is it that she knows how many hours you work? Are you running around telling folk?

MendedHeart · Aug 23, 2015

Me and another nurse were discussing an agency she used to work and that it sounded like I may want to do it on my days off.

I don't currently hold 2 jobs, but I do work 48-60 hours a week now

MunoRN, RN · Aug 23, 2015

I know some states don't allow you to work more than 16 hours per 24 hour period, and they have been known to crack down on nurses who get around this by working two different jobs (going straight from one job to another).

MendedHeart · Aug 23, 2015

Yea I'm not doing that. I was thinking of working 2 or 3 shifts a week on contract while working my full time weekend job. But nevertheless, I don't think it's against the rules.

scottaprn · Aug 23, 2015

If you have looked it up like you said and BON doesn't prohibit it why are you worried about it?

Print out the sheet of paper from the BON and hand it to the nurse who has no reason to be in your business and tell her to kindly get lost.

Then quit talking to people at work about things unless you want them broadcast everywhere. There is no such thing as private conversations at work as long as there are busy bodies with nothing better to do than stir up trouble. You will find this is an over represented class in nursing.

MendedHeart · Aug 24, 2015

If you have looked it up like you said and BON doesn't prohibit it why are you worried about it?
Print out the sheet of paper from the BON and hand it to the nurse who has no reason to be in your business and tell her to kindly get lost.
Then quit talking to people at work about things unless you want them broadcast everywhere. There is no such thing as private conversations at work as long as there are busy bodies with nothing better to do than stir up trouble. You will find this is an over represented class in nursing.

My question was if anyone works over 60 hours a week.

Not worried about it, thank you

Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN · Aug 24, 2015

I can't stand to work that much. I love my work, but I value my life outside of work even more. I have no problem with others who like to work more than I do, though. It's really none of my business.

I'd like to think that the 60 hour thing is about patient safety, and that there is some reliable evidence that mistakes are more likely to occur the more hours a nurse works- however, my cynical side has some doubts about that.

Anyway, your coworker sounds like a busybody. Unless you're showing signs of impairment that can be attributed to fatigue, such as poor judgment, she should mind her own business.