What is the longest shift you have ever worked

KRVRN, BSN, RN · Jul 16, 2004

16 hours :zzzzz

RN92 · Jul 16, 2004

16hrs in a very busy emergency room. We are allowed to do as much as 20hrs (and people do from time to time), but I dont see how this could be very safe in an acute setting.

Angelica · Jul 16, 2004

24 hrs. Building jet engines while in the Marine Corps. Probably not a good idea.

Gompers, BSN, RN · Jul 16, 2004

Longest shift on my time card was probably 18 hours in the NICU. Was only supposed to be 16-1/2 hour shift but stayed over 1-1/2 hours because the situation was so critical.

zacsmimi · Jul 16, 2004

i worked 18, I think, before I went to bed in an empty patient room to sleep for 6 hours and then returned to work for 12. It wasn't pretty. Labor and delivery unit, full moon, the whole bit. (Small hospital, though...) I think when I got home I slept almost 18 hours.

Farkinott, RN · Jul 16, 2004

Any shift with a hangover and lack of sleep. :imbar :imbar :uhoh21: :uhoh21: :uhoh3: :uhoh3:

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · Jul 16, 2004

17 hours clinical, 22 hours where the last 8 was classroom time.

zenman · Jul 16, 2004

The hallucinations hit me around 36 hours! :rotfl:

casperbjs · Jul 16, 2004

16 hours for me too!

rollingstone · Jul 16, 2004

16 hours on a progressive care unit.

curliegirlie · Jul 16, 2004

16 hours, then add an hour+ on each side for travel.