[shaunpersad]

Can you elaborate on how you worked with the hospital staff to make this "considerate scheduling" possible?

My initial feeling would be that the staff will do their jobs when it convenient for them to do it, regardless of when you would prefer them to do it. How did you manage to convince them to modify their scheduling?

[roel_v]

Not OP, but the same way you get anything 'management' done - get to know people, make them like you, understand procedures and incentives of everything and everybody involved, trust but verify, always be proactive and ahead of everything and everybody.

[kchoudhu]

I just asked! The head nurse on the floor knew that unless there was an emergency, we would like to rest between 9PM and 7AM. We would have preferred 8AM, but it was a teaching hospital and they needed to get rounds underway early in the morning.

Talk to the nurses. They control everything on the floor, the doctors are just passing through.

[mcv]

If nothing else works, make it more convenient for them to work with the patient than against the patient: annoy the hell out of them if they don't.

[Scoundreller]

Probably by asking, or skipping tests/interventions. Ultimately everything is patient’s choice.

It may work okay (administering one patient’s daily meds last amongst the caseload of patients).

Other times, by deferring the 6AM blood draw to 10AM could mean your providers don’t have a fresh picture of the patient’s condition during morning rounds.