The First Step To Solving The Nursing Shortage Crisis!

When most nurses think of working only three days a week for 12 hours you would assume they would be excited, and more impelled to work harder on their work days, right?
According to the article titled “The Longer The Shifts For Hospital Nurses, The Higher The Levels Of Burnout And Patient Dissatisfaction”, Amy Witkoski, and Douglas Sloane state “nurses who worked shifts of 12–13 hours were more likely to intend to leave the job than nurses who worked shorter shifts, contrary to what the literature suggests.”
With the implementation of 8-hours shifts, nurses are likely able to go home and still spend time with their family and friends.
In the article “Association of 12 h shifts and nurses’ job satisfaction, burnout and intention to leave: findings from a cross-sectional study of 12 European countries,” the authors state “our findings show that the odds of intending to leave their job due to job dissatisfaction were increased by 31% for nurses working 12 h or more in comparison with nurses working 8 h or less” (Dall’Ora, Griffiths, et al.).
12 hour shifts → hospitals throughout the country will suffer from inadequate patient to nurse ratio.
12-hour shifts must be replaced with 8-hour shifts in order to take the first step in solving the nursing shortage crisis.