Improving patient care while decreasing costs is a priority for all healthcare organizations today. Successfully meeting employee staffing challenges, such as unscheduled absenteeism and attracting and retaining skilled resources, can dramatically improve an organization’s ability to deliver quality care. Workbrain’s new Web-based, Real-Time Self-Scheduling module provides healthcare organizations with the tools they need to address these challenges and to better align their workforce with changing business demands. The new module streamlines the workforce scheduling process by allowing employees to schedule themselves for different types and lengths of shifts from any Web-accessible location. This results in less administration for supervisors and increased employee satisfaction. In addition, the Real-Time Self-Scheduling module enforces schedule compliance with department policies and labor laws to ensure that both patient and employee needs are met.
“This new Real-Time Self-Scheduling module reaffirms Workbrain’s dedication to the healthcare industry and ongoing commitment to product innovation,” said Mark Fowlie, Workbrain’s Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing. “Workbrain has worked with healthcare industry experts to develop an unparalleled, rules-based self-scheduling tool that helps to ensure patient coverage is met while simultaneously providing a high level of employee satisfaction.”
Industry research has demonstrated the connection between schedule ownership and employee retention. According to a survey conducted by Circadian Technologies Inc., work schedules developed through employee-driven processes (vs. management mandated) lead to lower levels of absenteeism and turnover. The study also indicated that fatigue is lower in facilities where employees choose their own schedule – only 6.5% of managers in these facilities reported severe fatigue problems, compared to 13% of managers who developed schedules for their staffs.
Workbrain’s Real-Time Self-Scheduler helps large healthcare organizations balance superior patient care with labor costs by:
- Replacing inflexible batch-oriented or manual scheduling systems
- Reducing the time managers spend handling employee absences, overstaffing and workload changes
- Providing an equitable self-scheduling environment, work/life balance and reduced employee turnover costs
- Enabling managers to tailor patient safety and employee work rules to the specific needs of the department at multiple points throughout the scheduling process
- Decreasing the dependency on costly Agency resources by leveraging the growing part-time healthcare workforce
The Real-Time Self-Scheduler is fully integrated with Workbrain’s comprehensive set of workforce solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of large healthcare organizations. In addition to the new Real-Time Self-Scheduling module, Workbrain for Healthcare also features robust Time and Attendance and Workbrain Intelligence, an analytics package that provides managers with the workforce data they require to make smart workforce deployment decisions.
To learn more about Workbrain solutions, Workbrain invites ASHHRA delegates to visit the Workbrain booth # 234/232 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, in Orlando, from July 17th to 19th, 2005.
