Twelve Hour Shifts For Nurses

Twelve Hour Shifts for Nurses By Elton Camp To be asked to work twelve hours in a row Seems to be an extremely hard way to go Imagine doing any task for that long How easy it’d be to do something wrong If selling clothes I work long and late A few errors we might then tolerate After all, a striped tie with a plaid suit Some folks might consider sorta cute When, for twelve hours, a nurse strives It could be a threat to the patients’ lives Can she maintain the right frame of mind And not come to patient needs to be blind And on the nurse it is just far too hard Shifts that long, I think, should be barred