I'm a Biomed at a small rural hospital, I was just promoted from maintenance to Biomed in November.
I've been at this hospital for 3years now, I'm still “training” but have enough knowledge to handle a majority of our work orders.
Theres only 2 of us in Biomed, we have been throwing around the idea of doing 4, 10's. Previously it was only the 1 biomed and he was struggling to handle the work load.
I approached our boss this morning about the idea. He's open to it, his instructions were to draw up the schedule and submit it. We did, with two options. Monday through Thursday and Tuesday through Friday.
My boss had a good question for us, if “Biomed” is a 2 man job. Why would this schedule work?
This question is our plans downfall, how would you suggest selling this to our board of directors?
[One of my main suggestions is the benefit that we can work a weekend and still have 2 days off. We already regurly do a weekend to catch up and service equipment that isent available to us during the week. Which then compounds our mental health with only having 1 day off]
TLDR: Boss wants a solid pros and cons list to sell a 4 10hr work schedule to our board for a department that only has 2 employees.