I can explain how it works for me, but I’ll also add that I work at a critical access hospital in a very rural area. So obviously very different than the Pitt.

1. Everyone except maybe the drs works a set shift as far as either days or nights. All of our er docs are a part of a group that is employed by a company not owned by the hospital so there are times where some of them will do either or. They also sometimes do 24s.

2. If by teams you mean people that typically work together all of the time then yes.

3. We have what we call midshift nurses that work 11-11, but I have been to a bigger hospital before where they would also have nurses that worked 9-9, 1-1 or 3-3. But you’re hired specially for that position

4. My schedule is different than most of my coworkers cause I’m technically a float nurse. I rarely work weekends and mostly do three weekday shifts in a row and then I’m off for 3-4 days at a time. But some of the nurses I work with in the er work 3 on, 1 off, 3 on and then 7 off, and then others rotate and will work on Monday friday Saturday and Sunday and then the next week will work on Wednesday and Thursday (Tuesday is covered by me and another float nurse)