I always loved evening. Love going home at night and don't really have to worry about traffic or the morning rush. I can sleep in. I can make appointments if necessary.
For me some cons would be the sleep schedule. It messes you up and my body sometimes does not know when to eat, sometimes I eat before bed which isn't good, also contacting family and friends is difficult since when you are free they are at work and vice versa for the most part. but doing grocery shopping is also fun.
You don't have any handover period? So are nurses coming in early/going off late and essentially handing over in their own time? I'm happy to say that where I work in France the unions would be down on that straight away.
Okay but if your shifts are 7-7, then it's the same as our twelve-hour shifts. The norm is that, because there's a 30 or 45 minute lunch period, the 7-7 shift is actually 7-7:45 or whatever. (And no, we don't handoff "on our own time" for heaven's sake!)
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21 hours ago, CommunityRNBSN said:
Okay but if your shifts are 7-7, then it's the same as our twelve-hour shifts. The norm is that, because there's a 30 or 45 minute lunch period, the 7-7 shift is actually 7-7:45 or whatever. (And no, we don't handoff "on our own time" for heaven's sake!)
Night shift 19h-7h. Break paid, no time deducted. Day shift 6h45 - 19h15. 30 minutes unpaid break deducted - unlike the night shift who eat in the rest room on the unit you can leave and go to the canteen/gardens/wherever you want.
I have heard of places where handover time is unpaid, for heavens sake! Sadly it does exist in some countries where unionisation is weak and private sector principles dominate. Though rare here I've even seen it in a private clinic in France where usually are unions are hot.
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Okay but if your shifts are 7-7, then it's the same as our twelve-hour shifts. The norm is that, because there's a 30 or 45 minute lunch period, the 7-7 shift is actually 7-7:45 or whatever. (And no, we don't handoff "on our own time" for heaven's sake!)