What is the most you've worked (days) without having a day off?

[Nightingale11]

The title was difficult to word but if you work 8 or 12 hr shifts, how many days straight have you worked and not had a day off?

[deleern]

14 days. they had Let the DON go. and the administrator would call on my days off to help the ADON. I usually work 10 day a pay period.

while I was going to school for my RN I did a Year of 12 days in a row and only had my weekend off. (Class for 6 hours on Tuesday. and clinicals on Thurs.) By the time I graduated I was exhausted. but when I started working full time as an RN 8 days a pay period I was bored to death.

[Larry77, RN]

Not sure how many days in a row but last winter I worked 154 hrs in 2 weeks once...was quite painful :-)

[CathyLew]

does being on call 24/7 count? if it does, I haven't had a day off in a year!

[Lovelee82]

I believe I have done 2 weeks with no days off. Nursing school, 2 jobs plus a toddler and (neglected) hubby at home. Oh yeah I had to study in there somewhere and it looks like I will have some weeks like that coming up this semester .

[L&Dnurse2Be]

Well it's not me but my husband. When my son was born and we finally got to bring him home (he was 6 weeks premature), my husband's company went on service emergency. It was extremely rainy that year, he worked in telecommunications. I was home with our first child while he worked 10 to 12 hour days for about 45 days straight...NO day off. He was exhausted, and so was I!

[ONCRN84]

4-12 hr shifts successfully. I tried to do 5 once and I was throwing up by midnight from exhaustion. I got sent home, slept for 5 hours, and woke up feeling like a million bucks. I like 3 on, 1 off to rest and recharge, then 3 more on and 7 off.

[ShayRN]

Not sure how many days in a row but last winter I worked 154 hrs in 2 weeks once...was quite painful :-)

OMG! How is that even possible? Eat and work? Bet the pay was nice, but so not worth it.

[avidhunter3]

11 12 hour days straight working in ER registration, I had 40 hours of overtime on my check. Was my check good? H3ll yeah, was it worth it?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I hope to God I never do it again

[bonestAx]

I worked 5 16 hr shifts in a row once. But it was under extreme circumstances. Last January we had a big ice storm that knocked out power to the entire county(and surrounding counties). I would work 16 sleep 2 or 3 in a empty unit get some food in the cafeteria then head back to work.. Good times.

[foreverLaur]

As a tech, I did ten 12 hour shifts in a row. It wouldn't have been so bad, but we had all medical patients at the time. Of my 12 patients I had every night, 7-8 were totals, 2-3 had c-diff, and on night shift, we were required to bathe all totals... It was a lot of manual labor that made it so exhausting.

[loriangel14, RN]

16 8 hour shifts in a row. 2 days off and then on for 6 more.

[Jules A, MSN]

With two jobs its not unusual for me to work 10 or 12 days in a row and then have one day off.