Re:Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six...
by Retric on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:51PM
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There is two ways to deal with that problem, either fewer handoffs or better handoffs. I suspect focusing on more efficient handoffs and practicing more may be better than simply having longer shifts. Because 6h vs 12h shifts might cut handoff mistakes in half, but with 6h shifts good record keeping becomes more obviously important, and fewer things need to be communicated at handoff aka 6h worth of info vs 12h worth of info.
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Re:Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six...
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:19PM
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Shifts (being groups of workers that start and finish at a particular time en masse) themselves are probably contrary to good practice wrt patient care. If the whole shift changes then it seems there would be a substantial discontinuity in care; you'd want people to have staggered work patterns so in any hour there is always a substantial proportion of staff who were there the previous hour.
Unless you have many-to-one carers-to-patients then it wouldn't matter so much.