I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can’t change them off the 12 hr clock. It’s safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there’s room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there’s no confusion.
Not sure if this applies to you, but how does EMS work with time across timezones? Like if a patient is airlifted from one location to another and crosses timezones? Is that another source of error, or is generally things being an hour off by accident not an issue?
I’ve never dealt with that, but I worked night shift for a long time and so I’ve worked when daylight savings time happened and stopped happening and run calls during that time shift. Usually you just note it when making report at the hospital and then when you are writing the chart you manually adjust the time so the computer is happy and lets you close your chart (so you keep things linear, even if it then means your documented times aren’t actually accurate as to when things happen) and write a note in your chart that the call occurred during the time shift of daylight savings times and that anything that is time stamped after XXXX actually occurred at XXXX.
I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can’t change them off the 12 hr clock. It’s safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there’s room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there’s no confusion.
Not sure if this applies to you, but how does EMS work with time across timezones? Like if a patient is airlifted from one location to another and crosses timezones? Is that another source of error, or is generally things being an hour off by accident not an issue?
I’ve never dealt with that, but I worked night shift for a long time and so I’ve worked when daylight savings time happened and stopped happening and run calls during that time shift. Usually you just note it when making report at the hospital and then when you are writing the chart you manually adjust the time so the computer is happy and lets you close your chart (so you keep things linear, even if it then means your documented times aren’t actually accurate as to when things happen) and write a note in your chart that the call occurred during the time shift of daylight savings times and that anything that is time stamped after XXXX actually occurred at XXXX.