With staffing pressures making floating shifts more common, find out how to cope if you find yourself working in an unfamiliar setting
Being moved to a different ward or clinical area, often at the last minute, is sometimes referred to as working a ‘floating shift’. Nurses may arrive at work and be told they are being reassigned to another area. It seems to be particularly common in hospitals, but can happen elsewhere too.
Nursing Standard. 38, 5, 23-24. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.5.23.s12
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