Survey: Do you leave work at your scheduled time on a regular basis?

menetopali · Apr 5, 2004

leave on time almost everyday and often we close up shop early. i work in an outpatient department that does mostly endoscopies/colonoscopies and a variety of other procedures and infusions but we're scheduled to only be open 0630-1600.

INTEVA · Apr 5, 2004

:) I rarely leave work on time. I work in anesthesia/OR dept. so it depends a lot on the caseload for the day. I do sign up for OT & for any missed lunches.

DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN · Apr 5, 2004

Always leave on time. It's part of the culture here. If you're off late you're deemed ineffeicient. The question is asked why you coudn't get the work done in the scheduled time.

This is in complete contrast to when I worked in the UK. British nurses have a martyr complex. They love to be the first ones in and the last ones to go home. This gives a false picture to management that staffing is adequate when it's probably not. If you stay late you don't tend to acomplish much anyway. You're not fresh and you're often just in the way of the shift that's taken over.

RNbug · Apr 5, 2004

I work on a surgical unit at night. I work the 12h shift and we have some very disrespectful dayshift nurses that come in behind us. Don't get me wrong-not all of the are, but most of them are. They are SUPPOSE to be there for report at 0645, but do you know what time they get there? 0710! Yeah and nothing has been said to them for the 8 months I have worked there. I am suppose to be there and ready for report at 1900. So when I get off the elevator at 1845-1850 they are asking "ready for report yet?" and being serious! I am luck to clock out at 0730 in the mornings! Most mornings even after I report off I still have to help out on the floor because they will not answer the call bells or phone!!!!!! :angryfire I have mentioned this to my unit manager but she just says oh well! So I might get to leave 5% of the time on time. This is the only place I have worked since I graduated and so this is the world I know.

duli03 · Apr 6, 2004

I try to leave on time but we have a huge amount of documentation at the hospital I work at, I would say I leave on time about 60% of the time and the other 40% of the time I may be an extra 15-30 minutes, usually its finishing documentation.

renerian, BSN, RN · Apr 7, 2004

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

renerian

QTRN74 · Apr 8, 2004

80% of the time I am out the door by 11:30pm...the other time, I am stuck catching up on paperwork.

Kiekuh · Apr 8, 2004

:rotfl: You know, it has been SO long since I left work at even a reasonable time, that I can not honestly tell you when my regular SCHEDULED time is...

This month's survey Question:
Do you leave work at your scheduled time on a regular basis?
Please take a minute to take our yes/no survey question at the bottom of the https://allnurses.com/ homepage.
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transplant · Apr 14, 2004

Hardly ever..not even on a good day!!:)

adrienurse, LPN · Apr 14, 2004

grrr, there's always some minor disaster that I can't hand off that sucks up at least 10 minutes of my time.

nursebonkers · Apr 14, 2004

:rotfl: :rotfl: GET OUT OF THE HELL HOLE NOW!!! LEAVE IMMEDIATLEY WHEN EVERY ONE IS BEGGING FOR EXPERIENCED NURSES. cash in on a cash cow!! Why Iv'e heard of an agency the pays $80 an hour if you have a CCRN. Im going to get it this year and become a scab nurse.!!! I have a union now and it works for somethings but not for staffing levels .. Call me future "scabs are us" Die US for priviliged only healthcare system, die , rot a horrible death...........

nursebonkers · Apr 14, 2004

This month's survey Question:

Do you leave work at your scheduled time on a regular basis?

:chuckle I work in a busy ER and leave around 11 pm, always on time now. You see, this because I just care more about myself then my employer does. So If Im stuck with patients at 11pm- I scream until someone or the nurse in charge takes report, I also qoute NJ 's NO MANDATORY OVERTIME LAW, and if no one takes report I wheel my patients into the hallway in front of the nurses station, strart writing a shoddy half *** written report and then leave. STICK IT TO THEM AND THEY SHOULD STICK IT TO ME IN THE MORNING.and stick the patients in the hallway!! If the cash run United States for privileged health care system doesnt like it hire more staff!!! They only own you for the times stated when they hired ya !!! :rotfl: SOB"S