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

TinyNurse, RN · Apr 18, 2004

yes mostly I leave on time in the ER at 3:30 am........ sometimes i stay if it is a trauma I had been working with or something....... I CHOOSE to stay.

last sunday, my 3rd of 3 twelves.......... my replacement didn't show up. I stayed 1 hour later, and then my charge nurse told me I could go home. She took over my assignment......Thank god for her........ xoxo Jen

miss_nurse2004 · Apr 18, 2004

Yes...I try to leave every day ON TIME. I'm the type that "gets things done", constantly on the go, running like a chicken with my head cut off. The oncoming nurses appreciate the fact that I have the med cart cleaned up and stocked and ready for them every day. However, the night nurse never bothers to do that for me! (I work the day shift, LTC) I never get my two 15 minute breaks during the day, and very often I have to miss my lunch break, just to try and get my work done. Of course, the don raises cain when I don't get a lunch, but what do you do?!?! I'm not eating...that's for sure! I'm running my orifice off!

Therefore, when it's time..I hit the clock and exit, stage right. And I leave it all behind me!

amoymak · Apr 19, 2004

yes, when i was on orientation!!

mawally218 · Apr 20, 2004

I work on a general surgical/ortho/neuro/med-surg unit. I average 2-5r overtime working four twelve hour shifts 7a-7p

Critical care rn · Apr 21, 2004

Rarely! If we do get out on time, it is because we all work together as a team to help out. Our administrators don't really have a clue.

momangel29 · Apr 22, 2004

:uhoh21: Once every couple of months I might get to leave on time.the hospital isreally busy and there is just NOOO WAY!Iam trying harder though.

cnyrn · Apr 23, 2004

If I thinl I'm going to be over (late admit, post-op coming, discharges) then I'll take a 10 minute lunch off my med-surg floor. That way I won't be late to put in 3 or 4 hours of overtime in the nursing home upstairs.

JillybeanRN

KacyLynnRN · Apr 24, 2004

seems like I hardly ever get out on time...but a lot of it I feel has to do with the fact that it takes the oncoming shift a long time to get out of report...our boss just started a rule that if we're clocking out more than 15 minutes late, we have to leave a note explaning why. Hopefully this will help the situation.

rosemadder · Apr 24, 2004

As a new nurse (8 months) I have left work 15 minutes late twice. At the end of the day if everyone is breathing and I get out on time I feel successful!!!

silvermaple2rpn · Apr 24, 2004

I always show up for work a few minutes early and I always leave within about 10min of my shift ending. The less time I have to spend hanging out with the incoming shift the less time I have to hear them whining and gossiping!

oramar · May 2, 2004

I leave on time 4 out of 5 shifts so I feel saying yes would be accurate.

4EverStudent · May 3, 2004

I leave on time if not early about 98% of the time. I eat lunch at the desk always but am not complaining and since I don't smoke I don't take breaks that require me to leave the floor but I feel like the time that I do have that I choose to visit with either the other nurses or the patients that is not related to thier care is a break. After all it is time that I am not being productive. I have been very lucky I have been a nurse for about 15 years and never have been denied overtime when I have had to stay over,. I think that this is because I don't abuse the system and the powers that be are aware of that. I believe in most instances you get what you give and if it is an unfair situation there is alot of other jobs out there you just have to find the right one for you.

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