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Article Excerpt
Many organizations have realized the benefits of rolling out an automated scheduling/ staffing solution for their nursing units. These benefits include reducing costs by cutting overtime expenses, decreasing the use of expensive outside contractors, such as nursing agencies, and more effectively deploying labor resources. Imagine the financial and productivity gains that an organization would achieve if it applied this technology throughout its enterprise.
Our organization, Medina General Hospital, is beginning to realize these gains after an enterprisewide implementation of an automated scheduling/staffing solution. And the benefits are adding up quickly, considering that, on average, each department manager is saving six hours per pay period using the automated features of the system, versus manually inputting employee schedules for their departments. For our organization, it was dear that implementing the solution on an enterprisewide scale would help us achieve several of our goals, which included:
* Reducing, and in many cases, eliminating the need for department managers to input employee schedules manually;
* Integrating scheduling/staffing data with our time and attendance system to eliminate duplicate data entry that decreases efficiency and increases the chances of data entry errors;
* Measuring employee productivity throughout the organization;
* Improving security by knowing which...
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