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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 min

Nurse 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 min

How 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 min

How 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

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