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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. The fact that nurses routinely work a 12 hour shift is something

Reply to Runningdawg (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 13, 2021, 02:41 PM

Jul 2021

I have long found disturbing. Those shifts became the norm some years ago. I really don't want to be taken care of by someone who has been on their feet for 11 plus hours. No one is at their peak hours and hours into working.

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