Vent:Unfair Shift Rotation

Specialties Med-Surg

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

This is just unfair....I have three graveyard shifts in this week(Wednesday,Thursday and Friday), a day off (Saturday) after these three and then, she scheduled me to a morning shift?!!(Sunday)....you got to be kidding me....I tried to explain to her that this is too risky and that patient care will be affected by this....but she just told me that this is our profession...to do my job and get on with it....I'm angry at that supervisor for being cruel and mean to us staff nurses....She doesn't think that she is sending one tired exhausted nurse...for the 7-3 shift and if anything happen to a patient....who would be liable?....not her but me...so frustrated just wanted to vent out...

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i really don't see the problem here. you get out of work saturday morning (i assume) and don't have to back till sunday morning. that's 24 hrs. down time.

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rotating shifts is bad management.....altered sleep cycles etc..

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

Unless this happens all the time I do not see what the big deal is, you get a day off.

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

i couldn't do it....being on a night schedule and then getting flipped......i know if someone told me i had to work a night shift after working my 3 days....forget it...it takes me 2 days to recover from working those 3 days then now your are expecting me to stay up all night when i haven't recovered from the 3 days and take be responsible for sick people...i cant do it ...write me up....

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Yea, you get a day off, I can see THAT point (made by previous posters), but our schedulers avoid only one day between rotating nights to days...when are you supposed to sleep? You get done Saturday morning, and after 3 night shifts in a row, your body is going to expect sleep in the morning/daytime. Then you are up all night, and have to work Sunday am? Conversely, if you push and stay up all day Saturday, you'll be way overtired by Saturday night, and good luck not oversleeping Sunday morning.

I would be mad, too (when I used to work rotating shifts, I'd get on the person doing the schedule if it came out looking like that, and make them change it). It may be 24 hours between shifts, but that doesn't make it logical or easily workable.

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Hello,

I am not a nurse (yet) I start nursing school next month. But, I wanted to comment on this post. I have been a 911 dispatcher for 11 years and my schedule is aweful. I work two 12 hour day shifts then off two days and then two 12 hour night shifts and off two days, we rotate constantly. Plus on my two days off I usually work overtime or timetrades for people. In the past there has been times where I have worked four 12 hour night shifts and then went into three 12 hour days shifts, it is very exhausting to flip flop between nights and days.

So needless to say that if you are not used to flip flopping days and nights you can get really burned out. Good luck and I hope you make it through your shifts without being too tired.

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