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

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

21 days, should have been 8 hr shifts, but you left when the paper work was done. That was between 2 jobs and 10 yrs. age. The up side, my daughter got through collage with no student loans. :yeah:The down side, Mom was a terrer.:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

11 twelve hour shifts 7p-7a as a 20 year old nursing assistant.....needed rainy day money.....has the disturbing age to nap at red lights on the drive home.

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Specializes in Psych, Med/Surg, LTC.

13 shifts in a row. 8.5 hour shifts with a 1.5 hour commute each way. I worked night shift. Yes, I was money hungry at the time. :bugeyes: I didn't have kids then so really it wasn't all that bad.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

18 12 hour shifts not too long ago. I come to realize, I'm getting too old for that mess!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
18 12 hour shifts not too long ago. I come to realize, I'm getting too old for that mess!

OMG and I thought I work a ton of hours! Kudos.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).
18 12 hour shifts not too long ago. I come to realize, I'm getting too old for that mess!

Oh God, I think you win. We should all pitch in for a year's supply of coffee for you, you' deserve it.:bowingpur

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I worked 7 straight, 13 hour night shifts on a hospice case. I needed extra money for my vacation that was coming up. :sofahider

Luckily, the case was very easy, and the patient was only on continuous care for insomnia and medication teaching.

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One time we had an employee who's boyfriend accidentally shot his brother. She was off for two weeks and everyone pitched in, I don't know how many hours it came to at the end of it because it's all a blur.

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Specializes in CVICU, Neuro ICU.

I'm about to start doing 6 12hr night shifts in a row with 8 days off in between...I'll let you know how it goes!!

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).
I'm about to start doing 6 12hr night shifts in a row with 8 days off in between...I'll let you know how it goes!!

Wow, good luck.:D

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thirty days in a row. I would work five 8 hour days, with call on at least one day per week, and then two twelve hour day shifts on saturday and sunday. I was saving for a house at the time. ( I reached my goal, but i was too exhausted to enjoy the extra money) I was a zoooommmmmbbbbiiieee:dzed: by the time the month was up, it took me two days on my vacation to relax. I don't recommend it at all,:bugeyes:.

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When I worked 8 hour shifts-8 shifts in a row (64 hours)

When I worked 12 hour shifts-6 shifts in a row (72 hours)

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