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They do know roughly how long it takes to take care of a patient & should be set up with overlapping shifts and to be winding down towards a normal shift (i.e.
by vlovich123 3y ago
They do know roughly how long it takes to take care of a patient & should be set up with overlapping shifts and to be winding down towards a normal shift (i.e. no new patients) so that there's no handoff of a single patient but no one is working long hours. Some patients might take longer than a single shift, but handoff is inevitable at some point. You can improve your handoff processes but you can't improve the decision making of someone working a 12 hour shift.
- galangalalgol 3y agoIs this maybe one of those "if something is hard, do it more often" things?
- vlovich123 3y agoMaybe but I won't claim to know how to quantify things to evaluate proposals. I do know that even in tech with low stakes, hand off is a problem. I recall hearing teams trying to do 3 on-call teams in 3 different timezones and the team requested to scale back to 2 with longer hours because of the handoff problem (& these hand-offs were occurring daily).