The three-year study relied on feedback from 23,000 registered nurses from California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. The researchers found 65 percent of nurses worked shifts of 12 to 13 hours, and the percentages of nurses reporting burnout and intention to leave their job increased incrementally as shift length increased.
Additionally, in hospitals which had higher proportions of nurses working longer shifts, higher percentages of patients reported that nurses sometimes or never communicated well, pain was sometimes or never well controlled and they sometimes or never received help as soon as they wanted.
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