12 Hour Shifts for Nurses

I love 12 hour shifts! I worked 8s at a clinic when I first graduated and much prefer to work 3 days than 5 days per week. I like it when they are back to back because it means I am going to have back to back days off and sometimes I get 5 day and even 6 day weekends! My hospital is so small and I stay so busy that the time really flies~!

I hated 12 hour shifts, but every once in while would like more days off. I think, actually a weekly combination of 2-12s and an 8 would work best for me.

I hate 12 hour shifts, but at the same time don't like being at work an extra day a week. I kind of miss those 3 days in, and 4 off, but I work nights, so I either trade weekend DAYS or half of my day off for sleeping. I don't know which is worse.

I did 12 hrs on my preceptorship in nursing school and I prefered them, 6 am to 6 pm, rather than 8 hr shifts, esspecially where I work at the pay periods are saturday threw friday so my boss takes and puts us on 10 day streches with 2 days off,unless you rip her a new ahole it seems like, I wish I could get ahole of a 12 hr job!

I'm going to have to agree with NewRN23 and lgreenlpn on this one. I need to have my off days to recover. I couldn't do 8s and work 5 days a week - I need to decompress!