Does shift basis exists for biomedical engineer in hospitals | EXCELLENCE BIOMEDICAL

 

Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of, or provide

service across, all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week (often abbreviated as 24/7). The practice typically sees the day divided into shifts, set periods of time during which different groups of workers perform their duties. The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts.

biomedical engineers especially those that works in hospitals and diagnostic centers as a service engineers typically do the following: replacements of spare parts of medical equipments, Install, maintain, or provide technical support for biomedical equipment.

Most Biomedical Engineers work a standard 40-hour week. Sometimes, pressing deadlines will require them to work after hours, on weekends, or on holidays.

Telling about my experience as a Hospital biomedical engineer, I can say I had many instances of turning up late from work

Well you may think work force shortage and hospital issue. No, it is not like that. I began my carrier with one of the reputed hospitals. Neither the shortage of personnel’s nor the management compulsion. However, the importance of work made us to stretch beyond the shift time.

Now in most places where staffs works on shift basis depends on nature of the work or the employers working plan 

If you’re working in a place where you’re the only one employed to fill a gap then definitely you’re said to work only on the basis of the working hours designated.

But in some huge cooperate and public working places where they employ many people with the same skills to work, then in such a place usually they do set a shift rotation where each of the staffs works on a shift basis either night or Daylight time or within some specific amount of hours