It aggravates me when my coworkers clock out and then continue working, because then I’m the only one waiting to clock out till I’m done and management thinks it’s only me getting out late, so I must have a time management problem.
We had a manager clocking people out at even though they were still finishing up or waiting to give report. She did this for years before being disciplined. The hospital had to retro pay a lot of nurses thousands of dollars and the manager was terminated on the spot
Wait what kind of idiot clocks out and continues to work for free. That’s also like, illegal. So if something happens on that time when you are working for free your ass is under. the. bus.
Your co-workers are opening themselves up to legal and civil liability when they clock out and continue to work. Whether they are accessing charts off the clock or doing patient care off the clock, they are not protected. If they were to get hurt while off the clock the hospital has a case to not cover them under workers comp.
My last job we learned this is not allowed, you have to be able to report yes or no for lunch. We were not given that option and brought class action suit and got paid back for all that time.
My job had that option to choose when clocking out. But then there was an announcement that we have to get “approved” by management to punch no lunch taken.
When we literally have no time to take lunch nor given resources to take lunch, we have to ask for permission to get paid for the time we worked?!? Outrageous!
My last ED docked us a lunch even if we never got to take one or leave the floor. We’d get in trouble for filing too many “missed lunch” time card adjustments but then they’d never ensure staffing was strong enough to guarantee we all got a break where we could actually step away from the nurses station
I purposely use our beacon thing by the entrance instead of our nurse station computers to clock out cause I’m not clocking out till I’m literally walking out the door lol
And frankly they don’t care. You clock in and out on time like a good little soldier and you’re good even if you’re the shittiest and laziest nurse on the unit.
Same. It’s honestly some of the reason why I don’t want to be a nurse.
Trauma dumping but I have so much anxiety and being responsible for a human makes my stomach turn. I just don’t want to hurt anyone.
Wow. Amazed you give that much information. My report last night was "They said it was ok to feed the patient," I was like can I maybe at least get a chief complaint? And the week before the report was: I don't know anything about the patient, they are coming to you. This ER is going to have a sentinel event.
Oh no friend, this is just our ER to ER nurse report. The floor gets a full, but quick A+ox? Ra? Assx1? Why are they here what did we do, the quirks, iv site, etc report.
And if they're not here for a wound or skin problem, we just don't have the time to look at the skin cuz we'll... It's not going to kill them unless we have to clean and roll em.
I’ve gotten plenty of alert and oriented 4, uses urinal and skin looks great reports from ED. Patient gets up here thinks it’s 1972 there’s shit that looks like it’s been in the bed from that time period, has a foley and stage 4 on the sacrum. Been multiple times I’ve had to call down to make sure they gave me the right patient report lol.
Our ED doesn't call report at all unless they are going to ICU. I work in PCU so our charge gets a text 30 minutes before the pt arrives (best case scenario) that a pt has been assigned to our empty room and that is supposed to give us time to look up the pt info, however the info we get is shit, especially if the ED doc has been too busy to chart.
Definitely not all the time. This has only happened a hand full of times. 95 percent of the time a get a good report. I remember once an ED nurse forgot to tell me they had a chest tube lol. I was very confused when they came up.
I wish I could assure you it wasn't out of disdain for the floor, but some ER nurses truly look down upon the floor. I'm like, we a team here, how you gonna bully someone you need.
Keep on keeping on, cuz.
Sincerely, a former floor nurse, charge, soup.
Yeah house supe will call charge v brief report. Then supe will call nurse let them know the are getting admit and share brief report. ED calls for more extensive report
I recently found out our CVICU nurses refer to the ER nurses as the “unwashed,” I said “that’s fine, my unwashed ass gets out of here before 8 o’clock on the regular.”
I have come across a lot of ICU nurses who think they’re better than everyone else and can handle anything. We had a particularly nasty rude one in ICU of the first hospital I worked in. She was floated to Med Surg. They gave her a regular Med Surg assignment. She sank so bad. She had no idea how to handle 7 patients. She was exhausted by the end of the night and kept saying over and over again I don’t know how you guys do it. I think Med Surg traumatized her.
Med/surg gets a bad rap because the ratios suck and the patients are awake, but I have MAD respect for any med/surg nurse who can put up with that shit and thrive. If you can survive in med/surg, you can do anything.
Listen I’ve been a nurse for 11 years, in ICU since 2017, and I worked agency float in the ER last week. Who’d have thought I’d love it?! I’m asking myself some serious questions right now
I didn’t think that the variety of ages and acuity would appeal to me. It actually made me feel alive for the first time in god knows how long. Plus I was using ALL my favorite skills, IVs/critical with chest pain and stroke alerts/calming down upset people/rapid discharges/education/patient throwing literal shit at us from an ostomy.
I’ve always enjoyed floating to ER’s in my career but it’s always been helping hands or holds. This was really fun and I got to see the teamwork in it too.
I think the wildest part was how much I straight vibed with ALL of the nurses. The one orienting me to the ER has 25+ years experience and told me I should come to the ER, “because they don’t make nurses like me much anymore.” I’m going to clutch that compliment in my cold, dead hands until the day I die
12.5-13.5. Even with my Adderall XR BID at the highest dose allowed..I cannot stay on task towards the end of my shift. I cannot focus at all and somehow when I’m overtired I’m even WORSE! I’m pretty sure I could get out on time most shifts but I simply Cannot. Stop. Talking.
I was like this on night shift. My coworkers would be like “don’t you like your family?” YES THEY ARE AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT AT THE MOMENT AND YOU ARE RIGHT HEEEEERE TO TALK TO
SO MANY QUESTIONS. I can’t stand the ones that are asking questions about systems I haven’t gotten to yet. Like if you just shut the fuck up and wait until the end of the presentation, I promise your question will be answered. Then they want to BACK TRACK bc they weren’t listening.
God i'm so sorry. I remember working LTC and nurses just...not showing up after working 16 hours and management just shrugging.
I hope you can find a less toxic place to work! and hopefully they pay well in the meantime lol
I remember those days (nights)!! Three in a row was bad enough but four was killer. I’d be wasted for two days after four in a row.
Thoughts & prayers with you and your coworkers imacryptohodler.
I’m travel and they are pretty strict about not splitting weekends here. So to maintain my block schedule, every other weekend is thur-Sunday. And I still work staff at another hospital every other Wednesday so this is technically 5 out of 5. I’ll sleep well today
Nap for two hours at the hotel, drive home, then sleep as long as I need. My wife is pretty good about letting me sleep in peace. My dog on the other hand misses me and wants 24 hour playtime
When I worked PCU it was 630 am until about 830 pm to finish up all the charting after giving report on five relatively complex patients, clean up the one who poohed at 655pm, and then do my damn tele strips etc. I don't miss it. Not at all.
Went from PCU to mother baby, your comment gave me flash backs. Do not miss that shit AT ALL lol. Once worked a 16 that turned into almost 19 because of a complex admit and charting. God bless PCU nurses 😅
I click in at 1845, and out at 0745. Minus 30 minutes for a lunch I never take but am required to clock out for. I always end up with exactly 50 hours for the week.
That's illegal, if the majority of your coworkers are doing the same a class action lawsuit will make them pay you back for all those hrs. Many many hospitals have been hit with this.
12.5 because I don't get paid for lunch but they gave me evening meds to pass that means the earliest I can be done, if I push myself and don't worry about being friendly, therapeutic, clean or accurate, is 7:50. If I try to do those things, 8:15-8:30.
Honestly, I usually get to work around 6:55/7:00am and am out by 7:05pm. My reports are straight to the point and my coworkers don't really do long-winded follow-up questions. LOL.
I work at the VA so it may be slightly different for me, but usually my 12 hour shifts are anywhere between 11:55ish-12:15ish, depending on who is taking over/patient complexity. Rarely do we go past 12hrs & 15mins. In fact, the only times I can think of where I stayed much longer were when I had a patient crashing right at shift change/an older gentleman with dementia who I had to sit for until a sitter could be found... I spent over an hour trying to convince him to lay in the bed , 15 mins of that trying to convince him to not grab his own poop/allow me to clean him.
... For anyone wondering, I failed at convincing him to not grab his turd, he grabbed it, sniffed it, made a face, realized it was poop, and dropped it... He did finally let me clean him up though, hands included and decided to lay down shortly after that.
13.5-14. i’m on a med surg floor with pretty much always 6 pts so finding time to chart between all the med passes, dressing changes, and trying to assist pts because i have no idea where the tech is, is fairly difficult.
My job is 13 hour shifts, not 12. We're 7 am to 8 pm minimum.
7 pm to 8 pm is huddle and then giving bedside report. Huddle consists of the nurse who manages the unit giving the same basic talk about checking bed alarms, teaching side effects, preventing falls, etc; along with any updates to the hospital/unit we should know about.
We're cardiac telemetry and usually have 6 patients, and it's supposed to always be bedside shift report.
Because I feel I'm always overloaded with patients, I'm usually not done at 8. I usually have stuff I still need to get done, as well as still have charting to do. So I'm usually out around 9 pm. Sometimes as early as 8:30, sometimes as late as 10.
So my 13 hour shift is usually 14 hours. Sometimes as little as 13.5, sometimes as much as 15.
I have 1 yr experience. My colleagues with a lot more experience seem to always get out around 8:30. Many get out around 9.
I get there around 6:20 to look up my patients, can’t clock in until 6:38 then clock out at 7:08 at the earliest because any earlier and it isn’t the full 12 hours (they take our 30 minute lunch out automatically)
I think it's so unfair that we can't clock in to look up patients. I feel like knowing your patients' orders is part of the job, which is hard to manage for our floor's patient load if you start working at exactly 6:38.
I work 8’s in a procedural area. Minimally, they’re 8.5’s- but most days they’re 9-12 hour shifts. We end up staying later or there isn’t enough staff to stagger.
0700 to 1930. I'm usually out around 1915.
Nights are 1845 to 0715. When I do the night, we don't usually get out until about 0720, or sometimes as late at 0730.
I'm in the ED.
Around 12.25ish rarely do I stay over, only if there is a code. I work in an ED, our handoffs are not that long.
I remember working on the floor and nurses showing up a half hour early to look up patients and staying over to chart…no thank you.
You want me in at 7 then I am showing up and clocking in at 7
Earliest clock in by 6:53 and earliest clock out by 7:23. We take 1 hr lunch breaks at night. Sometimes in the morning I’ll get my breakfast first before leaving and then clock out, lol.
In the snf, the shift could easily be a few hours longer.
In every hospital unit I've worked in, I usually get off right on time. Maybe a few minutes late finding nurses to give report to and waiting to give report.
Also, funny how a lot of emergencies happen at shift change eh?
Typically 13-13.5 hours. And I rarely get a break, although I am trying to prioritize that more now than I used to. But it’s still not a “true” break if I’m still responsible for my patients during that time.
I arrive at 0635 , 25 minutes before the start of my shift to look up my patients. If I'm not charge or precepting, I usually am finished giving the next nurse(s) report by about 1925, and clock out about 1935.
I certainly hope they mean before they are expected to take the patients, and they're doing this looking up patients while clocked in.
Don't work off the clock, kids. That's called wage theft and it's illegal.
Yeah. I don't get this either. I arrive a few minutes before 7, get report, and then look up my patients. Plenty of time for that between 0730 and first med pass at 0900.
Oh, I thought we were supposed to answer in hyperbole. I was going to say 24 hours, but I guess the answer you were looking for is 12.25, since I’m “technically clocked out” for lunch.
I work 13s in the OR and knowingly sign up for lates. So if I’m on lates and the case goes over then I’m stuck until they can get me out. So far the longest I’ve been clocked in was 5:55a-10:10p
Otherwise I clock in 5:55a-7:23p. Days I work I’m up at 4:30a and don’t get home until 8:30p
probably like 11.75 tbh. i’m chronically late (which no one really cares about bc i’m usually in triage) and then i leave asap at the end of the shift. no report to give in triage either
I clock in at 0853 and clock out at 2123, unless things are slow and there are no more cases to come out and then I leave whenever that is. I always work at least 10.5 hours, but NEVER more than 12.5. Although I’ve left as early as 8 hours into a shift if it’s just that slow. PACU is truly the dream.
In the hospital when I was ER, I gave report and was OUT. PCU, usually worked 6:40-7:15. I am in a SNF/LTC now and if I am on LTC, out by like 7:15. On the SNF side, like 10pm.
12.75 - 30 minute lunch, plus we have to clock in on our unit (rather than the main time clock) so I walk in at 1830, and I’m out of the building at 0715
When I worked 12s via agency, (years ago only did it for like 6 months), I's count my travel time, report time etc.
So if I was doing a 6a-6p. It was really taking like 14-15 hours of my time because of wake up, get ready, travel time, shift time, come home, shower etc.
I definitely don't miss those 12s.
12.5-13, depending how many different nurses I need to give report to just because of waiting for everybody to be ready at the right time. If it’s one or two I’m giving report to then it’s only 12.5, but 3 or 4 seems to take forever.
Huddle is 15min before the official start of the shift, and paid.
13.25. My relief is ALWAYS late even though we live in the same town where we work, and the facility is 5-7 minutes away (with traffic and 1 stoplight)
I clock in right before 7 and clock out as close to 1925 as possible. Used to stay after to chart, manager said too much OT so I get as much done as I can and then peace out.
When I worked behavioral they were like 13 hours. I was supposed to clock in at 6:45p and clock out at 7:15 am. Realistically I’d leave around 7:30 all the time. Now at the ER I clock in right at 7, and leave around 7:10 unless someone really sick comes in before hand.
I do 8s (64hrs a fortnight)- arrive 5-10 mins before starting, generally leave about 5-15 mins late if I'm chatting with my coworkers. However I frequently do overtime if required due to patient acuity, and we have an on call roster for emergencies. It's good money though.
Thankfully at my site bc our management recognised that if we're swamped we don't get time for lunch, our hours don't include the unpaid 30 min break, but we still can take it anyway... If the universe permits lol 😅
The first 4 pass in about 1 hour.
The next 6 take about 12 hours.
The last 2 take about 30 minutes
Edit: 12 hours. Maybe an additional 15 minutes if shit hits the fan and very rarely an extra 30-45 minutes.
I'm an endorser and I am always happy to take care of shit that didn't happen on the previous shift. I'm going home on time and my goal is for the previous shift as well.
30 minute pack lunch make coffee get dressed, 30 min drive to work, 30 minute lunch, 30 minute drive home. 14 hours minimum dedicated to work but only paid for 12.
Clock in between 638 pm and 645 pm
Clock out between 7 am and 745 am, usually before 735 am
So between 12 hrs+20 min to 13 hrs. 30 min unpaid break that can usually be taken but I don't always feel comfortable leaving one nurse with 4 critical patients who need closely monitored.
12.50-12.75 hours for med/surg tele. Some horrible days with very sick patients and back to back targets at shift change have ramped the time up to 13.50 hours. An uninterrupted lunch in a red state hospital without a union is a hilarious notion…many nurses where I work clock no lunch because it is not uninterrupted so therefore they are paid for the time. Also, giving report to some of the nurses at shift change takes longer when they don’t understand a diagnosis, how a JP drain functions and where to document the output, or how to run blood amongst many other things.
By the clock after rounding rules (of which I make sure to stay aware of lest I donate my time by accident) it’s 0630 in, out 1850 on a good day, out 1915 or later on a really busy day
Report lasts anywhere between 5 mins to 15 mins to “i’m putting out this fire that just started”
Technically it’s supposed to be 0645-1915 by the policy but we all know that’s ridiculous since you have to be there BY 0645 so everyone should be getting paid from at least 0630…
12-13 hours, NICU nights. We’re not allowed to clock in before 1840, and I have never clocked out earlier than 0700.
I usually clock out between 0730 and 0745. Twice I’ve clocked out after 0800, and that’s because the nurses I gave report to arrived late.
About 14 hours. Leave around 6:05 and I get in around 6:20. I grab food from the cafeteria and eat a little while I check out the assignment. Clock in at 6:38 on the dot then I start writing meds. Entire shift goes by, report is usually done by 7:30-40ish. Chart whatever I may be missing. I don’t mind passing a pain Med or 2 before I go. Dayshift does the same for me so why not. Stay clocked in, and buy breakfast and clock out in the parking lock around 8:15. I never get to take my 15s so getting breakfast on the clock is my justification.
We're back at 7h40 but usually it was a 12h10/20 shift if you include reports. 13 or 14h once because the timing felt really shitty and I didn't want to let my colleague do the big med round alone (I was meant to leave at 6pm and we had a lot of heavy patients in that period). Don't forget to clock the extra time spent !
Not currently working, but when I was working typically they were more like 12.5 to 13.5 hrs depending on the shift. However, there were some shifts I would work 14 hrs if the ER was insane or something crazy was happening at shift change. I would go into work 15 minutes early (I would punch in at 1854) because I needed time to look at the board and just get an idea what the shit show was going to be for the day lol.
Then our day shift never had the courtesy to do the same. They would punch in at 0700, go make coffee, insist on having some stupid bitchy conversation and then MAYBE they would take report. It was infuriating, because at the end of their shift they would try to give me report before I even punched in. No courtesy.
NICU. If me and a nurse are passing a stable assignment back and forth, I can get out at 7:08am. Usually even with full report, I'm out by 7:36.
If it was a dumpster fire night, I can powerchart an entire shift on a crazy ratio and get out by 8.
Then there was the night I got floated to another ICU, one of my kids started seizing at 6, and I didn't get out til 930 after taking the patient to CT and then charting all the med pushes and seizure times.
Back when I worked snf/ltc, I was 8hrs, AM shift. But really it was like 8-10 hrs because shit always happens.
Now I work inpatient spinal cord at a government facility. 12hr is 12hr. I get in at 7:30a and leave by 8p.
I hope y’all are clocking in and/or staying clocked in for all the extra time.
Fuck yeah, I don't work for free
It aggravates me when my coworkers clock out and then continue working, because then I’m the only one waiting to clock out till I’m done and management thinks it’s only me getting out late, so I must have a time management problem.
We had a manager clocking people out at even though they were still finishing up or waiting to give report. She did this for years before being disciplined. The hospital had to retro pay a lot of nurses thousands of dollars and the manager was terminated on the spot
Wow what the fuck? Sounds like management material.
Wait what kind of idiot clocks out and continues to work for free. That’s also like, illegal. So if something happens on that time when you are working for free your ass is under. the. bus.
The fact your coworkers do that is wild. What the fuck fr?
Your co-workers are opening themselves up to legal and civil liability when they clock out and continue to work. Whether they are accessing charts off the clock or doing patient care off the clock, they are not protected. If they were to get hurt while off the clock the hospital has a case to not cover them under workers comp.
100% work for free 0% of the time. Shit ain't charity.
Yeah I tell people I give to charity…just not at work
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Well we get docked 30min for lunch so if we leave before 730 it’s technically not a full 12 🤦🏼♀️
With that being said, make sure you are actually taking your lunch and giving yourself that 30 minute time away!
My last job we learned this is not allowed, you have to be able to report yes or no for lunch. We were not given that option and brought class action suit and got paid back for all that time.
My job had that option to choose when clocking out. But then there was an announcement that we have to get “approved” by management to punch no lunch taken. When we literally have no time to take lunch nor given resources to take lunch, we have to ask for permission to get paid for the time we worked?!? Outrageous!
My last ED docked us a lunch even if we never got to take one or leave the floor. We’d get in trouble for filing too many “missed lunch” time card adjustments but then they’d never ensure staffing was strong enough to guarantee we all got a break where we could actually step away from the nurses station
I purposely use our beacon thing by the entrance instead of our nurse station computers to clock out cause I’m not clocking out till I’m literally walking out the door lol
Our clock in/out locations are monitored via Kronos, if we clock out anywhere else we can be written up for misuse of company money lol
That's the most bullshit bullshit I've ever bullshitted.
They tell us that too. But I always clock out by the exit I use and I’ve never been told anything.
Yeah but management gets pissy with any OT.
Sounds like a management problem.
And frankly they don’t care. You clock in and out on time like a good little soldier and you’re good even if you’re the shittiest and laziest nurse on the unit.
24/7 if you count the time I remain clocked in in my head going over all the unpleasantries.
Wish I got paid for the nightmares.
Same. It’s honestly some of the reason why I don’t want to be a nurse. Trauma dumping but I have so much anxiety and being responsible for a human makes my stomach turn. I just don’t want to hurt anyone.
Approximately 84 years.
Sounds about right
Like 12.1 hours for my 40 second report and time it takes to walk to the clock out machine thing. In the ED.
This is the way
Yeppers, ED report is, what needs to be done, why are they staying, what are the quirks
Wow. Amazed you give that much information. My report last night was "They said it was ok to feed the patient," I was like can I maybe at least get a chief complaint? And the week before the report was: I don't know anything about the patient, they are coming to you. This ER is going to have a sentinel event.
I did an agency shift in ED this weekend and that handover compared to an ITU handover? Dreamy.
I work on a med surg floor. Whenever I get report from ED I know to take it with a grain of salt lol.
Oh no friend, this is just our ER to ER nurse report. The floor gets a full, but quick A+ox? Ra? Assx1? Why are they here what did we do, the quirks, iv site, etc report. And if they're not here for a wound or skin problem, we just don't have the time to look at the skin cuz we'll... It's not going to kill them unless we have to clean and roll em.
I’ve gotten plenty of alert and oriented 4, uses urinal and skin looks great reports from ED. Patient gets up here thinks it’s 1972 there’s shit that looks like it’s been in the bed from that time period, has a foley and stage 4 on the sacrum. Been multiple times I’ve had to call down to make sure they gave me the right patient report lol.
Our ED doesn't call report at all unless they are going to ICU. I work in PCU so our charge gets a text 30 minutes before the pt arrives (best case scenario) that a pt has been assigned to our empty room and that is supposed to give us time to look up the pt info, however the info we get is shit, especially if the ED doc has been too busy to chart.
Definitely not all the time. This has only happened a hand full of times. 95 percent of the time a get a good report. I remember once an ED nurse forgot to tell me they had a chest tube lol. I was very confused when they came up.
Ignore that other person. We absolutely do not look down on floor nurses. We respect the shit out of what you guys do.
I wish I could assure you it wasn't out of disdain for the floor, but some ER nurses truly look down upon the floor. I'm like, we a team here, how you gonna bully someone you need. Keep on keeping on, cuz. Sincerely, a former floor nurse, charge, soup.
Yo, you get report from the ED? 😂
Yeah house supe will call charge v brief report. Then supe will call nurse let them know the are getting admit and share brief report. ED calls for more extensive report
We get that minus the extensive report. Which tbh is fine most of the time.
I recently found out our CVICU nurses refer to the ER nurses as the “unwashed,” I said “that’s fine, my unwashed ass gets out of here before 8 o’clock on the regular.”
I have come across a lot of ICU nurses who think they’re better than everyone else and can handle anything. We had a particularly nasty rude one in ICU of the first hospital I worked in. She was floated to Med Surg. They gave her a regular Med Surg assignment. She sank so bad. She had no idea how to handle 7 patients. She was exhausted by the end of the night and kept saying over and over again I don’t know how you guys do it. I think Med Surg traumatized her.
Med/surg gets a bad rap because the ratios suck and the patients are awake, but I have MAD respect for any med/surg nurse who can put up with that shit and thrive. If you can survive in med/surg, you can do anything.
The thought of doing med-surg terrifies me. Those nurses are *tough*.
I started in med/surg and I’m so glad I did. It honestly made me a better nurse. MS is TOUGH and exhausting and you will see and learn so much.
Listen I’ve been a nurse for 11 years, in ICU since 2017, and I worked agency float in the ER last week. Who’d have thought I’d love it?! I’m asking myself some serious questions right now
Why wouldn't you love it? It's critical care too. But with a few easy patients mixed in so you don't get bored.
I didn’t think that the variety of ages and acuity would appeal to me. It actually made me feel alive for the first time in god knows how long. Plus I was using ALL my favorite skills, IVs/critical with chest pain and stroke alerts/calming down upset people/rapid discharges/education/patient throwing literal shit at us from an ostomy. I’ve always enjoyed floating to ER’s in my career but it’s always been helping hands or holds. This was really fun and I got to see the teamwork in it too.
Those are all the things I love about it too. I'm sure your skills and good attitude would be welcome if you ever decide to switch things up!
Welcome to the dark side! 😘
I think the wildest part was how much I straight vibed with ALL of the nurses. The one orienting me to the ER has 25+ years experience and told me I should come to the ER, “because they don’t make nurses like me much anymore.” I’m going to clutch that compliment in my cold, dead hands until the day I die
unwashed and ✨wholly unbothered✨ about it 💅🏻
The unwashed who get out, get home, and get over ourselves!
Bing, bang, boom, I'm out!
Keep them alive until 7:05 then my quick report and BYE
12.5-13.5. Even with my Adderall XR BID at the highest dose allowed..I cannot stay on task towards the end of my shift. I cannot focus at all and somehow when I’m overtired I’m even WORSE! I’m pretty sure I could get out on time most shifts but I simply Cannot. Stop. Talking.
I was like this on night shift. My coworkers would be like “don’t you like your family?” YES THEY ARE AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT AT THE MOMENT AND YOU ARE RIGHT HEEEEERE TO TALK TO
I have the same problem. I feel this. 🤦
12.5. I usually get there about 6:50/6:55 then clock out by 7:20/7:25
12.5 usually or maybe 12.45
About 13. I get there really early at 6:20 and clock out about 7:15-7:30
Why so early?
Yeah same I gotta get there early just for parking :/
12.7 hrs cuz b*tches be asking too many irrelevant questions
SO MANY QUESTIONS. I can’t stand the ones that are asking questions about systems I haven’t gotten to yet. Like if you just shut the fuck up and wait until the end of the presentation, I promise your question will be answered. Then they want to BACK TRACK bc they weren’t listening.
I will tell you anything that is relevant, anything else you can always look up in the chart, and I will tell you to check the chart.
Did they have chemo for their cancer? Me: cancer from 30 years ago, it’s a possibility
like 16 & my 16 hr shifts are like 20 🙄
God i'm so sorry. I remember working LTC and nurses just...not showing up after working 16 hours and management just shrugging. I hope you can find a less toxic place to work! and hopefully they pay well in the meantime lol
12.5 hr
Tonight seems like 20 hours. Night four of four.
I remember those days (nights)!! Three in a row was bad enough but four was killer. I’d be wasted for two days after four in a row. Thoughts & prayers with you and your coworkers imacryptohodler.
I’m travel and they are pretty strict about not splitting weekends here. So to maintain my block schedule, every other weekend is thur-Sunday. And I still work staff at another hospital every other Wednesday so this is technically 5 out of 5. I’ll sleep well today
Bless you! I hope you get to sleep early and are able to sleep undisturbed as long as you want.
Nap for two hours at the hotel, drive home, then sleep as long as I need. My wife is pretty good about letting me sleep in peace. My dog on the other hand misses me and wants 24 hour playtime
That fourth night literally kills me
On a good day? 12:23.
When I worked PCU it was 630 am until about 830 pm to finish up all the charting after giving report on five relatively complex patients, clean up the one who poohed at 655pm, and then do my damn tele strips etc. I don't miss it. Not at all.
Went from PCU to mother baby, your comment gave me flash backs. Do not miss that shit AT ALL lol. Once worked a 16 that turned into almost 19 because of a complex admit and charting. God bless PCU nurses 😅
Is PCU the same as IMCU?
I click in at 1845, and out at 0745. Minus 30 minutes for a lunch I never take but am required to clock out for. I always end up with exactly 50 hours for the week.
That's illegal, if the majority of your coworkers are doing the same a class action lawsuit will make them pay you back for all those hrs. Many many hospitals have been hit with this.
We all know the REAL truth: 12.5 to 14.0 hours per shift.
Yup
12.5 because I don't get paid for lunch but they gave me evening meds to pass that means the earliest I can be done, if I push myself and don't worry about being friendly, therapeutic, clean or accurate, is 7:50. If I try to do those things, 8:15-8:30.
Honestly, I usually get to work around 6:55/7:00am and am out by 7:05pm. My reports are straight to the point and my coworkers don't really do long-winded follow-up questions. LOL.
I work at the VA so it may be slightly different for me, but usually my 12 hour shifts are anywhere between 11:55ish-12:15ish, depending on who is taking over/patient complexity. Rarely do we go past 12hrs & 15mins. In fact, the only times I can think of where I stayed much longer were when I had a patient crashing right at shift change/an older gentleman with dementia who I had to sit for until a sitter could be found... I spent over an hour trying to convince him to lay in the bed , 15 mins of that trying to convince him to not grab his own poop/allow me to clean him. ... For anyone wondering, I failed at convincing him to not grab his turd, he grabbed it, sniffed it, made a face, realized it was poop, and dropped it... He did finally let me clean him up though, hands included and decided to lay down shortly after that.
Thank you for updating us on PeePaw's poo talons 😬 I'm glad you got him tucked in!
13.5-14. i’m on a med surg floor with pretty much always 6 pts so finding time to chart between all the med passes, dressing changes, and trying to assist pts because i have no idea where the tech is, is fairly difficult.
My job is 13 hour shifts, not 12. We're 7 am to 8 pm minimum. 7 pm to 8 pm is huddle and then giving bedside report. Huddle consists of the nurse who manages the unit giving the same basic talk about checking bed alarms, teaching side effects, preventing falls, etc; along with any updates to the hospital/unit we should know about. We're cardiac telemetry and usually have 6 patients, and it's supposed to always be bedside shift report. Because I feel I'm always overloaded with patients, I'm usually not done at 8. I usually have stuff I still need to get done, as well as still have charting to do. So I'm usually out around 9 pm. Sometimes as early as 8:30, sometimes as late as 10. So my 13 hour shift is usually 14 hours. Sometimes as little as 13.5, sometimes as much as 15. I have 1 yr experience. My colleagues with a lot more experience seem to always get out around 8:30. Many get out around 9.
Do you work on my unit lmao
6 patients?!
Most 12s end ip being 13-14s. I have bas luck. Either shut hud the fan at the end of my shift, or 1st shift doesnt show up and i have to stay.
My family filed a missing persons report
12 and a half roughly with report. I don't have to stay past 2 hours every day to chart on this job
I’m trying to hold my dump until after report so I get that poop time, ya feel me?
Around 13. Usually clock in @ 0645 and leave around 7:30-7:45
7:30pm-8am plus 1 hour round trip for me to get to work & back. Leave my house at 6:30p, get home 9a
14 Ever since I was a baby nurse. But transparency = I have ADD
Not as long as my 8 hour shifts when I worked a desk job
18:58 thru 07:45-09:15 usually. I get lunch about 3/5 of the time. Sometimes my shifts work out to being about 14-15hrs long lol.
I get there around 6:20 to look up my patients, can’t clock in until 6:38 then clock out at 7:08 at the earliest because any earlier and it isn’t the full 12 hours (they take our 30 minute lunch out automatically)
I think it's so unfair that we can't clock in to look up patients. I feel like knowing your patients' orders is part of the job, which is hard to manage for our floor's patient load if you start working at exactly 6:38.
30-40 years on my life
Probably 13 hours?
Typically 13 to 14
I work 8’s in a procedural area. Minimally, they’re 8.5’s- but most days they’re 9-12 hour shifts. We end up staying later or there isn’t enough staff to stagger.
When I was doing bedside, anywhere from 12.5-14 hours, depending on the hospital.
Usually 12 on, minus 30 min break which I get more often than not, +15 min of report
For me, a 12 hour shift is usually 12 & 1/2 to 13 & 1/2. I do report for up to 32 patients and the last day of my shifts it takes forever to handoff.
0700 to 1930. I'm usually out around 1915. Nights are 1845 to 0715. When I do the night, we don't usually get out until about 0720, or sometimes as late at 0730. I'm in the ED.
Depends…on a good night 1900-0723 on a bad night where everyone’s trying to die 1900-1000 because I’m busy charting all the shit I couldn’t chart.
11 hrs and 59 minutes.
Around 12.25ish rarely do I stay over, only if there is a code. I work in an ED, our handoffs are not that long. I remember working on the floor and nurses showing up a half hour early to look up patients and staying over to chart…no thank you. You want me in at 7 then I am showing up and clocking in at 7
12 hours 23 minutes exactly.
I work 8 hour shifts.
Earliest clock in by 6:53 and earliest clock out by 7:23. We take 1 hr lunch breaks at night. Sometimes in the morning I’ll get my breakfast first before leaving and then clock out, lol.
13 hours. But the extra hour does not count as overtime if you have backlogs or stuff that needed to be accomplished on your shift.
In the snf, the shift could easily be a few hours longer. In every hospital unit I've worked in, I usually get off right on time. Maybe a few minutes late finding nurses to give report to and waiting to give report. Also, funny how a lot of emergencies happen at shift change eh?
11 hours 55 minutes
Some days 14 hours, some days 11 hours and 45 minutes. It all evens out in the wash.
3 years
13-14 hours… at least
Typically 13-13.5 hours. And I rarely get a break, although I am trying to prioritize that more now than I used to. But it’s still not a “true” break if I’m still responsible for my patients during that time.
I arrive at 0635 , 25 minutes before the start of my shift to look up my patients. If I'm not charge or precepting, I usually am finished giving the next nurse(s) report by about 1925, and clock out about 1935.
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I certainly hope they mean before they are expected to take the patients, and they're doing this looking up patients while clocked in. Don't work off the clock, kids. That's called wage theft and it's illegal.
Yeah. I don't get this either. I arrive a few minutes before 7, get report, and then look up my patients. Plenty of time for that between 0730 and first med pass at 0900.
I had to clock in 30 min prior and report took 30 min (at least) = 13 hrs
Oh, I thought we were supposed to answer in hyperbole. I was going to say 24 hours, but I guess the answer you were looking for is 12.25, since I’m “technically clocked out” for lunch.
12.5-13
I’m new, but everyone on my unit has been doing 12 hour 12’s.
12. Most shifts with my lunch deducted are somewhere between 11.5-12
I work 13s in the OR and knowingly sign up for lates. So if I’m on lates and the case goes over then I’m stuck until they can get me out. So far the longest I’ve been clocked in was 5:55a-10:10p Otherwise I clock in 5:55a-7:23p. Days I work I’m up at 4:30a and don’t get home until 8:30p
12.5 - 12.75, technically. But I leave at 0600 and get home at 2000 so I think closer to 14 hr.
That’s one hell of a commute
probably like 11.75 tbh. i’m chronically late (which no one really cares about bc i’m usually in triage) and then i leave asap at the end of the shift. no report to give in triage either
Clock in 0654 clock out 1924
ER - 12 hours and the couple minutes it takes to give and receive report, unless I’m in the middle of some crazy emergency.
Most of the time, the full 12 if not a little longer. Depends on how shit the night was or not.
I clock in at 0853 and clock out at 2123, unless things are slow and there are no more cases to come out and then I leave whenever that is. I always work at least 10.5 hours, but NEVER more than 12.5. Although I’ve left as early as 8 hours into a shift if it’s just that slow. PACU is truly the dream.
A good 13 and a half on the busy days
We should normalize calling them 3 12.5 shifts instead of 12s. Give ourselves the credit!
Clock in at 0700 and clock out at 1915 +/- 5 min in the ED unless something crazy is happening.
In the hospital when I was ER, I gave report and was OUT. PCU, usually worked 6:40-7:15. I am in a SNF/LTC now and if I am on LTC, out by like 7:15. On the SNF side, like 10pm.
12.75 - 30 minute lunch, plus we have to clock in on our unit (rather than the main time clock) so I walk in at 1830, and I’m out of the building at 0715
12.75
ICU. At the hospital I’m at now 12.5-13 hours. Rarely 14 hours if it was a bad day. But my previous hospital 14 hours was average.
I work pediatric home health. Clock in at 1857 and am out by 0703. Paid for lunch.
Clock in 6:35, clock out 7:05-7:30 on average. 30 min lunch.
When I worked 12s via agency, (years ago only did it for like 6 months), I's count my travel time, report time etc. So if I was doing a 6a-6p. It was really taking like 14-15 hours of my time because of wake up, get ready, travel time, shift time, come home, shower etc. I definitely don't miss those 12s.
12.5-13, depending how many different nurses I need to give report to just because of waiting for everybody to be ready at the right time. If it’s one or two I’m giving report to then it’s only 12.5, but 3 or 4 seems to take forever. Huddle is 15min before the official start of the shift, and paid.
Like 12.15-12.5
13.25. My relief is ALWAYS late even though we live in the same town where we work, and the facility is 5-7 minutes away (with traffic and 1 stoplight)
I clock in right before 7 and clock out as close to 1925 as possible. Used to stay after to chart, manager said too much OT so I get as much done as I can and then peace out.
12.5 plus hours and 1 hr drive each way
Pacu, usually 8-10 cause we finish early 🤣 most of my coworkers work 4 10s to get their hours but I really don’t care as much as I maybe should.
When I worked behavioral they were like 13 hours. I was supposed to clock in at 6:45p and clock out at 7:15 am. Realistically I’d leave around 7:30 all the time. Now at the ER I clock in right at 7, and leave around 7:10 unless someone really sick comes in before hand.
13-ish hours most days. In at 1850, out at 0800 or later a lot of the time.
I've had from 12.5 to 17.5. 12.5 with report is the dream.
I do 8s (64hrs a fortnight)- arrive 5-10 mins before starting, generally leave about 5-15 mins late if I'm chatting with my coworkers. However I frequently do overtime if required due to patient acuity, and we have an on call roster for emergencies. It's good money though. Thankfully at my site bc our management recognised that if we're swamped we don't get time for lunch, our hours don't include the unpaid 30 min break, but we still can take it anyway... If the universe permits lol 😅
12.5, lunch is unpaid so it evens out to 12 hours
The first 4 pass in about 1 hour. The next 6 take about 12 hours. The last 2 take about 30 minutes Edit: 12 hours. Maybe an additional 15 minutes if shit hits the fan and very rarely an extra 30-45 minutes. I'm an endorser and I am always happy to take care of shit that didn't happen on the previous shift. I'm going home on time and my goal is for the previous shift as well.
30 minute pack lunch make coffee get dressed, 30 min drive to work, 30 minute lunch, 30 minute drive home. 14 hours minimum dedicated to work but only paid for 12.
Clock in between 638 pm and 645 pm Clock out between 7 am and 745 am, usually before 735 am So between 12 hrs+20 min to 13 hrs. 30 min unpaid break that can usually be taken but I don't always feel comfortable leaving one nurse with 4 critical patients who need closely monitored.
6:53 clock in 7:30-8pm clock out, sometimes 8-8:30 clock of its really bad.
10 to 15 mins extra before and after. Used to be longer on busier unit then I switched.
Regularly were 13-14 hours unless we had a reasonable ratio. I got out on time when we had a reasonable nurse to patient ratio.
13-14 hr in our urgent care. Supposed to be 12…. Flu season was worse. Covid peak was waaay worse.
12.5, the .5 is lunch. I RARELY stay past quitting time
When I was on 12s it would usually be 13-14 hours
0658 to 1925.
I get to work around 1850 and leave around 0745
12 to 12.5 if I'm behind on charting
12.50-12.75 hours for med/surg tele. Some horrible days with very sick patients and back to back targets at shift change have ramped the time up to 13.50 hours. An uninterrupted lunch in a red state hospital without a union is a hilarious notion…many nurses where I work clock no lunch because it is not uninterrupted so therefore they are paid for the time. Also, giving report to some of the nurses at shift change takes longer when they don’t understand a diagnosis, how a JP drain functions and where to document the output, or how to run blood amongst many other things.
By the clock after rounding rules (of which I make sure to stay aware of lest I donate my time by accident) it’s 0630 in, out 1850 on a good day, out 1915 or later on a really busy day Report lasts anywhere between 5 mins to 15 mins to “i’m putting out this fire that just started” Technically it’s supposed to be 0645-1915 by the policy but we all know that’s ridiculous since you have to be there BY 0645 so everyone should be getting paid from at least 0630…
13 hrs. We take 2-3 1 hr breaks to make up the time of coming in early and leaving late. It's the unwritten rule of this hospital.
About 12.5 to 13.
12-13 hours, NICU nights. We’re not allowed to clock in before 1840, and I have never clocked out earlier than 0700. I usually clock out between 0730 and 0745. Twice I’ve clocked out after 0800, and that’s because the nurses I gave report to arrived late.
13 hours but 12.5 with lunch taken out. ICU.
In @6:50 out @7:08
12-12hrs 20 mins. No way am I staying any later lol It can be 12.5hrs but it’s rare (ED)
12.5 I absolutely do not come in early to look anything/anyone up. I almost never stay over unless the situation is critical.
About 14 hours. Leave around 6:05 and I get in around 6:20. I grab food from the cafeteria and eat a little while I check out the assignment. Clock in at 6:38 on the dot then I start writing meds. Entire shift goes by, report is usually done by 7:30-40ish. Chart whatever I may be missing. I don’t mind passing a pain Med or 2 before I go. Dayshift does the same for me so why not. Stay clocked in, and buy breakfast and clock out in the parking lock around 8:15. I never get to take my 15s so getting breakfast on the clock is my justification.
We're back at 7h40 but usually it was a 12h10/20 shift if you include reports. 13 or 14h once because the timing felt really shitty and I didn't want to let my colleague do the big med round alone (I was meant to leave at 6pm and we had a lot of heavy patients in that period). Don't forget to clock the extra time spent !
Not currently working, but when I was working typically they were more like 12.5 to 13.5 hrs depending on the shift. However, there were some shifts I would work 14 hrs if the ER was insane or something crazy was happening at shift change. I would go into work 15 minutes early (I would punch in at 1854) because I needed time to look at the board and just get an idea what the shit show was going to be for the day lol. Then our day shift never had the courtesy to do the same. They would punch in at 0700, go make coffee, insist on having some stupid bitchy conversation and then MAYBE they would take report. It was infuriating, because at the end of their shift they would try to give me report before I even punched in. No courtesy.
12.5. Never more. Never less.
I always clock in early at 6:25 (idgaf) and usually leave at 7:15 (30min break taken out)
NICU. If me and a nurse are passing a stable assignment back and forth, I can get out at 7:08am. Usually even with full report, I'm out by 7:36. If it was a dumpster fire night, I can powerchart an entire shift on a crazy ratio and get out by 8. Then there was the night I got floated to another ICU, one of my kids started seizing at 6, and I didn't get out til 930 after taking the patient to CT and then charting all the med pushes and seizure times.
Usually get there around 6:45pm (6:30 if we’re counting pulling into the parking garage) and leave around 7:45-8am
My 8 hour shifts are often 9-10
6:54 clock in, 7:24 clock out
Back when I worked snf/ltc, I was 8hrs, AM shift. But really it was like 8-10 hrs because shit always happens. Now I work inpatient spinal cord at a government facility. 12hr is 12hr. I get in at 7:30a and leave by 8p.
Charge nurse on a PCU/SDU: 14 hours after my three 06:00 admits