Student reaction to the 12-hour shift in an undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program.
Over the past two years, students in their final year of nursing studies at our university have rotated through a combined medical-surgical Intensive Care and Coronary Care Unit where they have been required to work 12-hour shifts. This article presents the reactions of those students to this scheduling pattern and describes faculty concerns regarding the experience.
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College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
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