047 - Shift work in the labs: survey on organization models in Veneto
Autor(s): M. Stocchero, D. Giavarina
Issue: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 4, N. 1, 2008 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)
Page(s): 47-54
Background. Under the pressure of growing technologies and the contraction of the staffs, most of the clinical laboratories must reorganize their work and the shift models. Aims of this survey is to compare the workshift in the Veneto Region, regarding the emergency, night and holiday work, to verify the homogeneity of the used shifts and to derive helping models. Methods. We pooled the biomedical scientists (BSs) managers of all the 40 public clinical laboratories in Veneto, about the number of the BSs employed (full or part-time), managers, BSs involved in the workshift, number of people in shift at the same time, schedule and shift type (time, period, time off). Results. Respondents rate was 95%; 11 laboratories have a BSs staff under 10 units, 13 between 11 and 20, 6 between 31 and 40 and the last 2 over 40 units. There are many differences among the adopted shift models: BSs on call for labs with less personnel, shift or double shift for the larger ones, but with wide differences in time, period and time off. Conclusions. The workshift model for BSs are related to the number of BSs employed and consequently to the workload of the laboratories. However there are wide differences between each other, especially for the bigger ones. Many laboratories with night workshift use to add one day time off after the shift, but someone keeps the morning/night schedule, coming for nursing models: this shift avoids the 11 hours time off between two shifts, as provided for by D. Lgs 66/ 2003.