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This piece explores the necessity and benefits of modernising rostering practices in healthcare, highlighting societal, political, professional, workforce, technological, and organisational perspectives leading to change. It emphasizes the importance of adapting to meet the evolving demands, ensuring fairness, efficiency, and informed decision-making within the health service. Addressing resistance and effective management of change are crucial elements discussed in this insightful narrative. (472 characters)
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MODERNISING ROSTERING WHY CHANGE?
MODERNISING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Social Change: • Society demands greater efficiency • Increased patient choice in the health care system • Public more informed
MODERNSING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Political Change: • Quality and Fairness • Action Plan for People Management • The Health Service Reform Programme
MODERNSING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Professional Change: • Commission on Nursing (1998) • Report on Nursing Management Competencies (2000) • Agenda for the Future Development of Nursing and Midwifery (2003)
MODERNSING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Workforce Change: • staff want greater flexibility, • improved working conditions and • greater involvement in decisions which affect them. • “work/life balance” is becoming more important.
MODERNISING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Technological Change: • IT gives opportunity to modernise • development of electronic staff records, • time & attendance systems, • electronic rostering and patient acuity systems.
MODERNISING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? • Organisational Change: • Senior nurses to become more strategic • CNMs to manage ward resources • Drive for greater empowerment of workforce; • Need to proceed on a partnership basis.
MODERNISING ROSTERING: WHY CHANGE? Change: Implies resistance to change (at all levels). Change: Needs to be managed effectively.