which shift do you prefer 3-11 or 11-7?

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Jul 11, 2006

Welll,, considering you have no children 11-7 would work good. That schedule would still allow some sort of social life. 3-11 is ok if you have problems sleeping during the day but leaves a lot to be desired since most of your friends and family are home during those hours.

Myself i dont like 8 hour shifts anyway, i prefer 12's because it leaves more free time during the week and you dont have to split up your "weekend" wherever that falls. But i guess if i had to pick,, i would probly prefer 3-11 because i dont sleep well during the day although i tend to stay up late when im home in the evening. I can go to bed by 1 and be ready for the day by noon, no problem.

TazziRN, RN · Jul 11, 2006

If those were my only two choices I would take the 11-7. If I worked 3-11 I would never see my family, between work and school.

OR2ER, BSN, RN · Jul 11, 2006

i prefer to work 11-7. i work in a busy emerg dept and most of the patients come in after office hours..very seldom that i've worked the 3-11 shift.never worked in a health care setting?..well maybe i would suggest the 3-11 shift..and take it from there..its difficult to do the graveyard shift if u haven't been sleep deprived before.

there is evening and night shift premium..ours is just 25 cents difference($1.30/hr for evening and $1.55/hr for nights).

its also mandatory for us to work every other weekend..weekend premium is $1.70/hr.

i'm in toronto, canada

goodluck and hope you enjoy it!

anniev · Jul 11, 2006

I have worked 3-11 for over 13 years ,I created a life around it, I loved going shopping and not standing in line to check out you get in and out faster, You can exercise before work and not be so tired , if you are tired in the morning, sleep in! If you can't fall aseep when you get home sleep in in the morning. I could clean my house before work the day before a day off then my day off was mine!(no one was home so it didn't bother any one but the pets). I hated 11-7.. I was always tired and trying to get caught up on my sleep but I really didn't sleep alot with 3-11 I actually set my alarm so I would get up early to exercise and get things done before going in, this way when I got home I was in bed and asleep within an hour. I am presently on 7-3, a new world it is nice being done with my working day at 3 but I am finding out that I am not exercising as mush as I like , hate shopping in the evening. but really like the staffing on days more help, more experienced help ect so I don't know if I'll stay on the shift but I will give it a year before I go back cause it is easy to stay with the familar. I did need the change and so did my family.........good luck:)

fergus51 · Jul 11, 2006

I HATE 11-7. It's such a crap shift. I don't think you have any real life outside of nursing when you work that because you can't just switch back to a daytime schedule on your 2 days off. At least I can't. I would work days or eves if I had to work 8 hour shifts. I prefer 7P-7A though.

NurseLatteDNP, MSN, DNP, RN · Jul 11, 2006

I don't like 11-7 because my 3yr old daughter would not let me sleep during the day. I would have to sleep during her nap time. But if I would have school age children or no children at all, I would pick 11-7.

kwagner_51 · Jul 12, 2006

I LOVE 11-7!! The patients are sleeping!! No management in the building. Get lots of charting, skin assessments etc done on nocs. I have 4 children all in school. I come home, get them to school, go to bed and get up when the youngest gets off the bus.

I also work days 8-3 Mon-Thurs and 8-4 on Fridays when the new school year starts. I HATE 12 hour shifts!!!

Come on August 14th!!

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grambograham · Jul 12, 2006

I work 0700-1900 or 1900-0700 in an ICU setting. I don't mind either. If I was in your situation, the 11-7 would be ideal.

NurseLatteDNP, MSN, DNP, RN · Jul 12, 2006

I LOVE 11-7!! The patients are sleeping!!

Not in my hospital! For some reason, most of our patients are up and behaving like it is 3pm.

banditrn · Jul 12, 2006

Not in my hospital! For some reason, most of our patients are up and behaving like it is 3pm.

:lol2: Isn't that the truth, tho!! I've mostly worked nites thru the years, but in post-anesthesia I worked 1 to close. Close could be anywhere from 7P to midnite. Most of the time, tho, I was home in time to spend time with my DH.

Recently I started working 11-7 in LTC. I was telling my DIL about it, and how busy it was sometimes, and she couldn't imagine why it was so busy with the old folks sleeping all night! ROFLMOBO!:rotfl: :rotfl:

I have never been a 'day' person - I don't care for all the hub-bub that goes on - too many people around!

shmily · Jul 12, 2006

I kind of liked 3-11 before I had kids. (In LTC setting). The residents tended to be more relaxed and their families visited more on that shift, which usually made my job easier. I don't know why, but it always just seemed more relaxed and laid back.

In the hospital, 3-11 seems to be feast or faminie. Either nothing going on or getting slammed. I'd prob. pick 3-11. I'd rather be reieved by the night shift than the perky day shift when I'm a zombie.