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
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2013
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