shift
(shift )

The time assigned for work for an individual or group (also known as duty hours). In most hospitals and health care facilities a 24-hour day is divided into two or three shifts.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Shift." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737506/all/shift.
Shift. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737506/all/shift. Accessed April 8, 2025.
Shift. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737506/all/shift
Shift [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 08]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737506/all/shift.
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