Objectives
This solution aims to:
- Measure patient acuity relating to clinical hours required for care
- Predict labour hours required by acuity, preset nurse patient ratios and HPPD targets
- Compare acuity requirements to minimum staffing levels and preset nurse patient ratios
- Distribute equitable workloads to clinical staff
- Measure bed utilisation for each shift highlighting levels of churn
- Identify acuity & efficiency trends
- Identify peaks and troughs in patient acuity across days of the week and shifts of each day
- Provide ward acuity profiles for re-engineering rosters and redefining nurse patient ratios and HPPD targets
- Produce efficiency reports which compare achieved HPPD to preset targets
- Enable development of acuity based budgets
- Measure labour costs for specific episodes of care per DRG
- Track variances in patient outcomes and their impact on nursing hours required for care
- Enable benchmarking of HPPD measures
Reports Generated
In excess of 100 standard reports / graphs are produced to manage nursing workloads and to measure the efficiency of clinical nursing services.
- Work management reports
- Efficiency reports and graphs
- Acuity profile reports
- DRG specific nursing intensity reports
- Demand Projection and capacity planning graphs
All TrendCare reports and graphs can be saved as PDF, text or CSV format e.g. for transfer into a spreadsheet.
Ensuring Reliability of Data
Data reliability is maintained and evaluated through:
- Comprehensive training
- Regular inter-rater reliability testing
- Regular data integrity checks
- Review of patient outcomes
- Review of user satisfaction
- Ongoing research and development
- Benchmarking studies