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Janet,
I'm just getting into it, but the hospital uses it exclusively for
staffing, scheduling and payroll calculations. Since we use Meditech for
everything we can (within budget constraints) this was the obvious
choice for us. There may very well be better solutions out there, but if
you want to keep all of your data in once place (there are several data
integrity related reasons for doing this) and Meditech is your primary
hospital database, it works quite well.
The major components are:
- Nurse Dictionary
We give every payroll employee an entry in this dictionary,
nurse or otherwise. Here you define employees' job types and primary
locations. You can also add other locations where they may work. You
then specify the locations where each employee appears on the schedule
and the default job code with which they are listed. You can also
hard-code a weekly schedule, which is useful for full-time, 9-5 type
employees, or part-timers with consistent schedules. (You can actually
get more complex with multi-week schedules if needed.)
- Location profile
This is an extremely powerful component that we do not use to
its full capacity. You can specify shift types for each location based
on time of day and schedule code. You can then define how many of each
staff type is required for each shift (e.g.. 2 clerks and 10
technicians, etc.) You can also specify which skills are needed on staff
at any given time. It will then warn you if you have not scheduled
anyone with the missing skill according to the skills inventory in the
nurse dictionary.
- Location Schedules
This is where the location managers set up their schedules. All
of the employees are listed automatically based on the nurse dictionary.
The manager simply enters schedule codes for each day that an employee
is working. Hard-coded schedules will already be listed. Any entry can
be modified to reflect changes (vacation, sick days, change in shift,
overtime, etc.) At the end of a pay period, each location manager checks
the past schedule and signs the timecards. Payroll then uses that data
to calculate compensation.
- Scheduling Codes Dictionary
How to define a day (9-5) shift, an evening shift for each
contract type, a sick day, vacation, statutory holiday, etc.
Maintenance usually involves adding and removing employees from
schedules, or moving them from one location's schedule to another.
Adding an employee to a location's schedule involves defining their job
code for each week of a scheduling period for which they work in that
location and possibly they hard-coded schedule for that week. This is a
sort of template that is defined only for this employee, although it may
look exactly the same for any other employee. After this is defined, you
must initialize (or copy) this 'template' to the actual location
schedule as of the specified start-date.
Removing an employee from a location schedule is as simple as deleting
the 'template' for this user, creating a blank 'template' and then
initializing this blank 'template' to the actual location schedule the
same way you would for an addition.
To move an employee from one location to another, you would remove them
from their existing location, file the record, re-open it and add them
to their new location. The same applies to a job code change.
You can also create real schedule templates that can be defined for one
or multiple locations and then applied to any employee in those
locations.
Randy Showalter
Application Analyst, Information Services
St. Mary's General Hospital
911 Queen's Blvd
Kitchener ON N2M 1B2
519-749-6578 x4104
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From: Janet Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 17:48
To: Showalter, Randal
Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Staffing/Scheduling NUR module MAGIC
Do you like it?
Is it usuable?
Is it difficult to maintain
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Hi Ann!
Yes, daily. What would you like to know?
Randy Showalter
Application Analyst
St. Mary's General Hospital
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519-749-6578 x4104
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Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Staffing/Scheduling NUR module MAGIC
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Hello MT Users, Is there anyone out there that is using the Staffing
and Scheduling option within the NUR module in MAGIC???? We have lots
of
questions.
Ann Marie Gittings
Technical Services Coordinator
Mendocino Coast District Hospital
700 River Drive
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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707/961-1234 x341
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