Front Line Ward Balancing
Do you have an inpatient ward that is over-budget from high nursing overtime, constant staff turnover and staff shortages? This can happen in mere months, but can take years to fix…provided you even have someone who knows how. We will triage the problem, template the solution, then work with your management and director team to implement. After implementation, we will provide ongoing follow-up as needed to ensure your problem area becomes your success story.
In 2016 there was over $1 billion dollars of nursing overtime in public healthcare across Canada. And that was just for nursing. This number is estimated to be at least 50% higher when including Care Aids, Unit Support Workers, Security services, etc. Besides being an inefficient use of money that could be used to create value for patients, overtime has been proven to reduce the quality of patient care, increase staff burnout and staff injuries, thus further increasing costs. In addition, the stress of managing a high overtime ward leads to manager turnover and often the continuation of the problems in perpetuity.
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Nursing overtime costs in Canada in 2016 were estimated a 788 million dollars using 1.5x salary (some provinces overtime is 2x). And this is just the nursing component! The trend has continued to climb.