From static to agile rosters: improve rostering efficiency and care minute compliance
Optimising rostering in aged care organisations is a delicate balancing act—ensuring high-quality care for recipients while managing workforce costs efficiently.
Optimising rostering in aged care organisations is a delicate balancing act—ensuring high-quality care for recipients while managing workforce costs efficiently.
Few would argue that workforce is the biggest issue in residential aged care. The requirements of a 24/7 RN have commenced last week and the introduction of mandatory care minutes on October 1 is now less than 3 months away. In fact, we are already in the measurement period that will be used to calculate those mandatory minute targets.
In this blog, we explore different strategies aged care organisations could incorporate into their workforce and roster planning to proactively ensure care minute targets are met whilst continuing to deliver high-quality care, optimal resource allocation, and budgetary compliance.
Under AN-ACC, care minute data is crucial for all admission and reclassification decisions because it is required to determine if resident movements and reclassifications will be truly beneficial for the site, or if they will push care minute targets beyond the current workforce capacity.
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