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That study doesn't really address the issue here though. That study demonstrated hand-off risks. But as far as I can read, it didn't address shift length at all. All the providers in question had 8 hour shifts.
Obviously hand-offs produce certain risks. But that's a trivial question. Obviously changing shifts will have some negative effect as providers must get up to speed. But the right question to ask isn't "do hand-offs produce risks?" The right question to ask is, "if long shifts are used, do the reduced medical mistakes from the shift change counteract the increased medical mistakes from fatigue and unreasonable shift length?"
Do you have any studies that show this? Otherwise the benefits of long shifts are pure conjecture and drivel.
It's a balance between minimizing handoffs and ensuring fatigue is managed appropriately.
https://www.nurseregistry.com/blog/12-hour-nursing-shifts-pros-and-cons/
https://medprostaffing.com/nursing/12-hour-shifts-in-healthcare-benefits-challenges-and-how-nurses-can-thrive/#%3A%7E%3Atext=By+spending+longer%2Cbuild+stronger+patient
https://nann.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1.4.1_Effect-of-Staff-Nurses-Shift-Length-and-Fatigue-on-Patient-Safety-and-Nurses-Health-f89.pdf#%3A%7E%3Atext=Overtime+is+often%2Cand+healthcare+errors.&text=From+an+administrative%2Chand-offs+and+shift
https://www.hseblog.com/frms/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Healthcare+has+long%2Cthe+key+benefits
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3608421/
Yeah but those studies are about longer shifts (12 or 13 hours), not doubles or triples as OP asked. I don't know how common it is for nurses to have 16-24 hour shifts, but it seems like that was the original question.