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.