Softworks All-In-One Workforce Management Software integrates the Acuity-Based Staffing model to provide an optimised solution to Healthcare Employee Scheduling, Time and Attendance, Absence Management and much more.
Patient Acuity
- · Align staff rosters with Patients’ Acuity
- · Track patient dependency levels per ward
- · Identify wards that require revised staffing levels
- · Generate staff-to-patient assignments
- · Automate workforce administration
- · Ensure regulatory compliance
Patient Acuity is the measurement of the intensity of nursing care required by a patient. Healthcare organisations use patient acuity assessment to optimise their nursing resources and provide high-quality care to their patients.
What is the Acuity-Based Staffing model?
Acuity-based staffing allocates resources based on patients’ needs, rather than just patient numbers. Assigning the number of nurses needed per shift based merely on the number of patients may not be in the best interests of patients. For example, patients may require a dedicated nurse 24/7 when in intensive care but need minimal care on the day they are discharged.
With our automated acuity-based staffing solutions, you can optimise nursing rosters and assignments with patients’ dependency needs and be sure that you are making the best use of your workforce. It allows you to achieve quality patient outcomes, more efficient employee scheduling, reduced costs and increased employee satisfaction and retention.
Benefits of Workforce Management Software based on Patient Acuity
- ALIGN staff rosters with patients’ acuity. Schedule shifts by considering skills, experience and patients’ acuity levels.
- TRACK patient dependency levels across wards by integrating with tools like Shelford Acuity Tool, NICE, RAFAELA, and NHPPD.
- ASSESS the level of care required by each patient and schedule staff accordingly.
- MATCH required nursing FTE vs actual rostered FTE hours.
- IDENTIFY the number of staff required in each ward on a daily basis.
- ASSIST ward managers in identifying wards requiring revised staffing levels.
- MONITOR patient dependency levels and generate staff-to-patient assignments based on these levels.
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