Benefits
Benefits to Trust Staff
Access Intuitive Web-Based Tool For Maximum Participation In Schedule Creation
- Enter preferences or select available shifts via a calendar view from anywhere
- Request annual leave or days off and enter non-clinical time for classes, meetings, or administrative time
- View and print individual assignments or your unit schedule
- Self Roster extra shifts offered within your unit, department, or across the facility – only see those for which you are qualified
- Swap assignments and keep a record of agreed upon swaps
- Maintain credentials and contact information
Benefits to the Training Department
Track And Report On Professional Credentials
- Provide a user-friendly interface for staff to track career development in ten primary areas including unit-specific training, facility-wide training, academic course work, projects, committees, skills, documentation, certifications, degrees, and professional memberships
- Assist your facility in preparing for reviews/audits with a powerful reporting wizard
- Detect qualification expirations before they arise using the audit reports or be notified of staff expirations via email
Benefits to Trust Managers
Manage Staffing Costs And Increase Staff Satisfaction While Ensuring Quality Care
- Differentiate, track, and report on costs of salaried, hourly, agency, or other employees for accurate budget to actual financial reporting
- Maximize usage of existing staff and decrease agency usage and costs
- Ensure desired staffing skill mix for safe patient care
- Contribute to staff satisfaction, retention, and recruitment by providing an equitable and flexible scheduling system
- View real-time, enterprise wide staffing
Benefits to Staff Managers
Make Cost-Effective, Real-Time Staffing Decisions With An Enterprise View
- View staffing levels and specific assignments by area, department, discipline, or enterprise for any given date and time
- Initiate real-time staffing adjustments by using resource wizards to swap, move, balance, or supplement staff - or simply drag and drop between units
- Assign float pool, agency, and overtime resources efficiently and incorporate changes to census and acuity
- Dynamically edit all assignments against unit specific rules and see visual cues alerting users to conflicts and changes to core needs
- Offer vacant shifts to specific units, departments, across the facility, or to agencies
- Significantly reduce the many phone calls, faxes, and manual changes involved in staffing at most institutions
Unit Managers & Schedule Coordinators Save Time Creating And Fine Tuning Schedules
- Define unit-specific schedule lengths, coverage requirements, staff qualifications, quotas, and hour limits
- Generate schedules with the click of a button to optimise shift coverage and staff preferences
- Offer staff self or preference scheduling via the web after auto-populating regular shifts
- Fine-tune your schedule with the right information at your fingertips including resource costs, scheduled hours, and overtime thresholds
- View visual coloured alerts based on continuous conflict editing and dynamic totals
- Minimise managers’ burdens’ of ensuring equity of assignments with rules engine
- Post un-filled shifts to your unit, department, facility, or agencies
- Automate the approval of preferences by seniority, request date, or equity