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EMS Restructures Work Week for Medics

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I HATED the 12/12/24 schedule. Good to see progress finally being made on it, yet I'm dubious to see if it sticks, especially when you factor in late jobs, mandatory training, and especially forced OT. The article is an interesting read.

 

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Beginning Oct. 2, most medics working at Austin-Travis County EMS will begin a new shift schedule: 24 hours on, with at least 72 hours off between each daylong shift. For the past decade, ATCEMS medics have operated on a hybrid schedule, working two 12-hour shifts and one 24-hour shift over a rolling seven-day period. (Medics currently work 96 hours every two calendar weeks.) According to ATCEMS Chief Ernie Rodriguez, who addressed his 500 field medics in an Aug. 5 memo, the shift is designed to increase the medics' "cumulative hours of rest opportunity" in hopes of decreasing a longstanding department-wide feeling of fatigue.

 

Rodriguez said command staff will also implement a "non-punitive procedure" that will enable medics to take their ambulances off the road "when they feel overly fatigued and need an immediate break."


FULL ARTICLE: http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2016-09-02/ems-restructures-work-week-for-medics/

 

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We had one rotation that was a 12 hour day (city and busy) a 24 hour substation (slow usually) and a 12 hour night in the city. It was hell. 

 

Good to see shifts and days off being addressed. 

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