What time do you leave work?

[j0yegan]

I'm just curious. The shift is 7 to 7. But what time do you ACTUALLY leave work though??

[Katie71275]

Shift is 63-723 and I almost always clock out by 723 and after changing into street clothes, leaving by 730.

[TU RN, DNP, CRNA]

0745-0800 if I'm giving full report, 0730-0745 for updates. I'd say this is the mean for my floor (some consistently leave earlier, some later).

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Fifteen minutes after everybody else.

I cannot walk off the unit if a light is sounding, and there's nobody else to answer it. I'm no saint, but my conscience simply won't let me leave.

Change of shift is absolutely the worst time for a patient to need anything.

[j0yegan]

You know what REALLY annoys me? When I have to stay late and I have to come back to work the next day.

[nynursey_]

You know what REALLY annoys me? When I have to stay late and I have to come back to work the next day.

This! I live door-to-door 90 minutes from my hospital and when I'm there until 2000 or 2100, add that to the commute time (plus waiting for and riding the shuttle to the parking lot) and getting home, eating dinner, and showering ... then I have to be up at 0400 to be ready to get back to work the next day!

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I get out between 7:15 and 7:30 unless I'm precepting, and then it can be as late as 9:00, depending upon the orientee. I always stay until the orientee if finished charting and understands what she did right and what she did wrong that day.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I work 8-4:30 and I leave precisely at 4:30.

[Momtomykiddos]

I work 8 hour shifts, days or evenings.

I've only been off orientation a month and a half.

And this is my first job back after several years out of the medical field.

That at said, I am getting better, but I'm still a little slow.

Day shift, I usually end up staying an hour, up to an hour and a half.

Evenings are better. I get out of there on time, or within fifteen minutes, generally speaking.

Of course, being in LTC, if someone falls, or gives themselves a teeny cut while cleaning their little electric trimmer (true story), the incident report can keep me later, especially if it happens later in the shift.

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I work ER, 7a-7p,..I am required to clock in at 0630, we have a "huddle" before every shift to discuss anything new etc. Night shift is the same,...I am rarely late getting out. Our huddle is usually 15-20 min giving everyone time to leave on time. Obviously there are days when we get 4 Trauma's at 1830 and we stay to clear those out but maybe once every 6 weeks that happens.

[Clovery]

I'm scheduled 7:00a to 7:30p. It's still a 12 hour shift because we clock out for a 30 min lunch. Report generally takes the full 30 minutes unless I'm just giving updates. If we actually do the bedside rounding they want us to do, that's another 20 minutes at least. I would say on an average I'm done at 8:00p, but it's not unusual for me to stay even later if I've had a crazy day and didn't have a chance to chart everything.

[ChipNurse]

We are schedule 7a-7:30p, and give report from 7p-7:30p. We cannot clock out before 7:30p. I'd say 95% of the time I am waiting to clock out at 7:30, if I get busy towards the end of my shift then the latest I clock out is 7:45p.

[Asystole RN]

I typically leave between 1700-1730

x4 10hr shifts, 0700-1730