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I just recently got a new job as a nurse at a hospital that is 2 hours away from my home. I don’t start orientation until Monday, however I was wondering can I request to work my 12 hour shifts all in a row. I’m planning on sleeping in a hotel or Ai...

If I’m new to a specialty (Postpartum with possibility of cross training in NICU) that I want to work with NO experience in this specialty that is very competitive and hard to get in and was offered a fulltime position, should I try to get that job a...

Hello Nurse Beth, I just got my first NP job offer (yay!) And am interested. However, it is at an outpatient heme/onc clinic and would be 9-5 M-F. Moving from 13 shifts a month as a bedside RN to five days a week is going to wreak havoc on ch...

Seeking commiseration and chocolate, will accept honest assessments of whether I'm being a total princess about this. ? Just got my schedule for the next few weeks, and I got scheduled to work four 12s in a row that I in no way, shape, or form r...

I have worked only 14 consecutive hours, mainly because they were short, but my shifts are only 8 hours. I have worked about 13 consecutive days. But that is because they offered overtime. Now some may have 2 jobs so it may be longer. I heard some s...

I was recently hired at a hospital. They usually make their nurses do rotating shifts. I’m a night person so I told them I’d prefer nights, they said they would make it work but still had to hire me as a rotating shift nurse on paper. Now they send m...

Dear Nurse Beth, Fair scheduling practice question. I work in a unit open Mon-Fri. The charge nurse is off every Monday because “ I have been off every Monday since I’ve worked here” we are a unit of seasoned, PT and FT RNs. We do not think it is fai...

I've been a RN for thirty four years and for the first time in my life I am being scheduled sixteen hour shifts in a long term care facility. I am the house supervisor and am told this is the norm for long term care. I do everything I can to make it ...

1. What days/hours do you work? (day/evening/night) 2. How are your hours scheduled? Are they different if you are working casually/part-time/full-time? 3. Do you have a say in your hours?

Anyone go from working three 12 hour shifts to working four 10 hour shifts? I’m considering a position that is four 10s, no weekends or holidays and it sounds good but I’m kind of worried about working that fourth day. Also the hours vary so some wee...

I’ve been looking through the policies at the hospital I work at and I can’t find out what days of the week are considered the weekend.

Other than hospital or inpatient, where else can I find an FNP job that has the 3-12 hour shift schedule? I don't mind working every other weekends. Thanks