What's the most consecutive hours and days you have ever worked?

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Specializes in ACE.

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I have worked only 14 consecutive hours, mainly because they were short,  but my shifts are only 8 hours. I have worked about 13 consecutive days. But that is because they offered overtime. Now some may have 2 jobs so it may be longer. I heard some staff say if they don't work at their full time job they are at their part time job.

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

284 days, Afghanistan. That was tiring. 

Had a job that was only 2 days a week, 18 hrs a day. It sounded great on paper. I envisioned being off for 5 days and living it up. Then reality hit. I slept the first 2 days and locked my keys in my car 3Xs.

Specializes in Med-Surg.

Back when I first started nursing I did a couple of double shifts 16 hours.  Also I've done 3 days shifts, followed by five night shifts in a row.  This was 30 years ago and I needed the money to help move myself to Florida so I was motivated and young.

The last long shift I worked was a few weeks ago when I stayed 2 hours late and worked 14 hours because of a bad shift and things happening at shift change.  

Now I can barely do 3 12's in a row but that's all I do when I work overtime.  I have worked 5 12's in a row twice the last couple of year and swear I won't do that again.  LOL

Specializes in New Critical care NP, Critical care, Med-surg, LTC.
17 hours ago, Lunah said:

284 days, Afghanistan. That was tiring.

Can't even imagine. I know the heat over there alone would kill me, much less trying to function in it. I am grateful for people like you that make sacrifices for the good of all the rest of us, thank you. 

Specializes in Psychiatry, Forensics, Addictions.

The most I have worked in a day is 20 hours.  Then, I had to come back 4 hours later.  Horrible!!  I think 12 days in a row was the most I ever did.

Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
14 hours ago, Tweety said:

Back when I first started nursing I did a couple of double shifts 16 hours.  Also I've done 3 days shifts, followed by five night shifts in a row.  This was 30 years ago and I needed the money to help move myself to Florida so I was motivated and young.

Yeah, back in the day, I could work a double (16 hours) and feel no more weary than I might after a regular 8-hour shift. Now? Now I can still work a double once in a great while, but I feel it! I lack the endurance I once enjoyed. 

Specializes in Rehab/Nurse Manager.

Longest shift: 21.5 hours long

Longest work period without a day off: 38 days

Specializes in Corrections.

I normally just do 12 hr shifts but there are occasions that I stayed maybe an hour or two late when I was a new grad to finish up on charting. But the most days I've worked consecutively I think was 10 shifts on nights. Had just moved into my house and really started with nothing when I moved. So I had multiple PRN jobs 

Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

So I work 8 hour shifts 6 one week and 5 the next week. I am often asked to do 12 and I did a sixteen hour shift last week from3 pm to 7 am the following day. While I do enjoy the money these shifts bring they take a lot out of me so I only say yes to extra hours once per week. 

Hppy

Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
11 hours ago, hppygr8ful said:

So I work 8 hour shifts 6 one week and 5 the next week. I am often asked to do 12 and I did a sixteen hour shift last week from3 pm to 7 am the following day. While I do enjoy the money these shifts bring they take a lot out of me so I only say yes to extra hours once per week. 

Hppy

Wow! Thats a lot of extra hours!

Specializes in being a Credible Source.

Between two jobs (1x 12h and 1x 8h), 42 days consecutively

I once did 19 straight 16h shifts.

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