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Good evening,
Wanted to start by saying you have provided great work this past week.
Longer shifts (12 hours) versus shorter shifts (8 hours) does have its advantages and obviously its disadvantages. Other than your usual issues which you mentioned, it is worth considering the positives. It is key to remember that longer shifts promise less patient turnover. Instead of three or more nurses caring for a patient, only two will in a 24-hour period which will decrease hand-off and communication errors. Also, longer shifts make nurses happier since they can have a better work-life balance. Another positive factor is that longer shifts means less commuting time for the nurses—who does not like that? Also, this means that nurses have more flexibility for vacations, family time, school, etc.
As a manger, longer shifts are easier to schedule since you don’ have that many shifts to worry about and it increases revenue since you have 36 hours versus 40, which is a modified full time (MFT). All-in-all, it’s my experience that longer shifts are better all around, sure, they have their draw backs, but in the end, the benefits outweigh the risks.
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Employee scheduling demands may become complex. Coming up with a nurse schedule presents a massive challenge to schedulers. The industry requires 24/7 coverage. We are working with nurses with a different skillsets, qualifications, full-time employees, and part-timers. Therefore, this case will bring about a scheduling nightmare. Creating a nurse schedule template that will satisfy all the nurses is a difficult task. To solve the problem, I will let the nurses state their preferences. I am looking to come up with a schedule that will keep them satisfied. I will limit the days that staff can work 12-hour shifts. Willing staff will be allowed to work 12-hour shifts from Monday to Thursday only.
I will grant staff the alternative of trading shifts, and this will be well-controlled. I will not pay the nurses for working four extra hours because it will entice most nurses to work 12-hour shifts. Nurses working 12 hours implies that fatigue will creep in, and they may burn out, leading them to make mistakes on the job. This will lead to high turnover rates and diminished patient satisfaction and care. Not paying the last 4 hours of the 12-hour shift will discourage more nurses from working overtime. The staff will get the option to choose between 8 and 12-hour shifts because not all are for the idea of implementing 12-hour shifts. I believe this will lead to staff satisfaction.
Mixing 8 and 12-hour shifts is challenging to maintain vigilance, and twelve hours is a long time for an individual on monitoring duty to sustain continuous watch. We will have the problem of unequal distribution of labor as staff working 12 hours will do more work. There will be decreased personnel interaction and/or communication as the management will have little opportunity for interaction with cohorts doing 12-hour shifts. Such staff will have reduced availability for management meetings and diminished interaction with the training staff.
References
Rizany, I., Hariyati, R. T. S., Afifah, E., & Rusdiyansyah. (2019). The impact of nurse scheduling management on nurses’ job satisfaction in Army Hospital: a cross-sectional research. Sage Open, 9(2), 2158244019856189.
Schoenfelder, J., Bretthauer, K. M., Wright, P. D., & Coe, E. (2020). Nurse scheduling with quick-response methods: Improving hospital performance, nurse workload, and patient experience. European Journal of Operational Research, 283(1), 390-403.