• aedalla@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    12s do make sense in Healthcare where every handoff is an opportunity to miss important information. For instance if you forget to mention all the specifics of all your patients injuries after a car wreck, the next nurse might not realize their sinuses are cracked and just go ahead and insert that nasogastric feeding tube into their brain.

    3 handoffs a day instead of 2 is 1.5 as many chances to make an error like that.

    That said, 2x12s a week instead of 3 sounds lovely.

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      1 year ago

      Ahhhhhh, but one is less likely to make an error when they’re tired. In sure that even nursing could rotate to a 3x shift per day cycle and the wheels wouldn’t fall off.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly I’d settle for making sure the doctors hand off q12h. They often work 48 hour shifts with even more disastrous possibilities.