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Author(s) -
M Coetsee
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v8i2.585
Subject(s) - nursing staff , operations management , variety (cybernetics) , function (biology) , productivity , nursing , business , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , engineering , economics , macroeconomics , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , biology
Drawing up the monthly change list and the off-duty times for hospital nursing staff is an important administrative function. However, nursing management spends many valuable hours on this function. These hours can be reduced to minutes by a computer program designed for this purpose. The program also contributes to cost containment as it allows for more effective staff scheduling, particularly when used with a patient classification system. Furthermore, it provides a variety of useful management reports such as a monthly productivity summary, a monthly costanalysis report and a 24-hour staff analysis