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How to organise rotating shifts, keep your schedule and count your hours without fighting a spreadsheet.
How to organise rotating shifts: a complete guide
What rotating shifts are, the most common cycles (5x2, 4x4, 7x7, continental) and how to keep your rota without doing the sums every week.
Turna team · 20 September 2026 · 4 minNurse shift schedule: how to make it easy
How to keep a nursing rota: post-nights, swaps with colleagues, counting the month's nights and moving it off paper without copying it out.
Turna team · 20 September 2026 · 5 minHow to count night hours in rotating shifts
What counts as a night hour, how to work it out when a shift crosses midnight, what happens with your break and how to keep track without doing it by hand.
Turna team · 20 September 2026 · 5 minHow to share your shifts with your partner
Your partner never knows when you are off. Why the photo, WhatsApp and Google Calendar all fail, and how to share your shift calendar with a link.
Turna team · 20 September 2026 · 4 min