> more shifts for docs = more $$ paying for more medical staff.
I don't follow. It can't be more expensive to pay 2 doctors for 8 hour shifts than 1 doctor for 16 hours; if anything, I'd expect it to be cheaper (no overtime).
> but there have been a bunch of studies that showed that handoffs between shifts at hospitals is where things go bad. Someone doesn't document they gave an extra 2 cc of a drug to a patient, and next shift gives them more and causes issues, etc.
Hence pushing for checklists so that doesn't happen?
I don't follow. It can't be more expensive to pay 2 doctors for 8 hour shifts than 1 doctor for 16 hours; if anything, I'd expect it to be cheaper (no overtime).
> but there have been a bunch of studies that showed that handoffs between shifts at hospitals is where things go bad. Someone doesn't document they gave an extra 2 cc of a drug to a patient, and next shift gives them more and causes issues, etc.
Hence pushing for checklists so that doesn't happen?