Sitting at work

I sit to document and when I start IVs and sometimes when going over discharge papers.

I sit whenever possible. I will sit and do an admission history, I sit when I chart and I sit when I start IV's. Being on the patients level helps with communicate, I have found. And I know, when I was a patient, I preferred my nurse to sit and talk with me, instead of standing talking down to me.

I work in an adult ICU, but I often catch myself standing when I could be sitting....and I usually make myself take a chair. You never know when **** will hit the fan and you won't be able to sit even if you wanted to.

Not sure why I find myself standing to chart or whatever I happen to be doing/not doing. Nervous energy maybe?

I stand a lot, but that's because I get interrupted a lot and am always ready to dash off. If there's some true down time, I'll sit for a while.

We often sit to document and to talk to patients. Twelve hours is a long time to only stand if you don't need to.

If you calculate the amount of time per shift that I am sitting, it is easily half of the shift, if not more.

When I worked NICU I often sat. At almost 6 feet tall, bending consistently can be pretty uncomfortable. As a NP, I sit when I interview patients, and sometimes when I do part of an exam (like, for feet/lower legs, and of course, pelvic). I guess one advantage of standing is that if something happens and you have to hustle, you save the step of getting up. Nowadays, my hustle isn't much more than a shuffle, though, so I'm not sure it'd make a difference :-)

I rarely get to sit. I really need to though, my knees are killing me at the end of the shift.

So much that I think I will have to look into working in a different setting .

I may get to sit maybe 10 minutes out of a 12 hour shift. Sometimes we don't even get a break , or if we do its for maybe 15 minutes due to the Patients interrupting us:(

I rarely sit, but I do pee every 15 minutes because I live in constant fear that **** is ABOUT TO GO DOWN and this very well may be my last chance for the rest of the shift lol. Truth.

When I work nights, I rarely sit down. This is my choice because an inertia and sleepiness sets in sitting down that makes getting up so much harder. I would rather keep upright and moving. It keeps me alert.

Even working days, I don't sit except for lunch and some charting. I have the most awesome pair of shoes for work. I can stand all day and my feet never hurt.

We have no chairs where I work (stand alone endo facility). Therefore we are literally on our feet for the entire shift. I feel fine during the shift. But by the time I get home, I'm so stiff I can barely get out of my car.

I don't work all that much anymore, though. But most of the staff there is full time. And young, lol.