The phrase "a one day shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a work shift that lasts for one day, often in the context of scheduling or employment.
Example: "I was scheduled for a one day shift at the hospital to cover for a colleague who was sick."
Alternatives: "a single day shift" or "a one-day work period".
In the space of one day shift a hot-air balloonist was brought in with traumatic injuries, went to theatre, came back, tried to leave, phoned his friend (currently flying in the air without a clue) then watched his friend begin the landing process from his hospital bed.
He hopes the world will one day shift its weaponry from predominantly offensive to predominantly defensive purposes.
I hope these stories are shared and appreciated so that such laudable behavior will one day shift from remarkable acts by dedicated individuals to social norms of our entire culture.
During the study period about 34,000 tonnes of cement was produced annually by 320 workers with one day shift of 8 hours.
The study period was designed to overlap a second day (but not to exceed 24 hours) to ensure that data acquisition in each unit included at least one day shift and one night shift.
The Rasmussen numbers moved a tick toward President Obama, but it's just not worth making much of a one-day shift in a tracking poll (a sustained shift over a week or longer would be more interesting).
"What I did was to ask the matron to allocate two nurses on night shift and two nurses as well on day shift, because previously we used to have…sometimes three nurses on day shift and only one nurse during the night duty.
All junior doctors working on the unit (ranging from foundation year 1 doctors to specialist registrars) who took responsibility for the daily clerking of one or more patients on day shifts during the study were fully informed of the objectives and were eligible to volunteer as cases.
PAGE A12 LONGSHOREMEN PROTEST IRAQ WAR West Coast ports were shut down as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their union leaders said was a one-day, one-shift protest against the war in Iraq.
SEATTLE — West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their union leaders said was a one-day, one-shift protest against the war in Iraq.
In some companies, workers rotate one week on the day shift and one week on the night shift for the duration of the harvest and planting season.
