Health Care

• Current and projected nursing shortage.  New nurses are entering the filed at the slowest rate ever and older nurses are leaving earlier. Staffing reductions have often resulted in longer work hours for the remaining nurses. Excessive long hours are related to increased stress and health problems, resulting in increased healthcare costs.
• Increased workload.  The aging population, and demands associated with caring for sicker patients, are increasing health personnel stress and workload, and resulting in increased fatigue levels and burnout.
• Safety incidents and quality of care. Fatigued employees are prone to making more mistakes, which result in both increased injury rate for health care personnel and lower quality of patient care.
• Low morale, absenteeism and turnover. High workload and job stress, increasing legal liabilities, combined with poor schedules and excessive long work hours result in low morale, poorer performance and increased absenteeism and turnover.

How CIRCADIAN can help you:

• Staffing level analysis.  Using advanced analysis techniques, CIRCADIAN can identify the optimal staffing levels for each shift and department, taking into account the fluctuations in demand that are inherent in a health care setting.
• Shift schedule optimization.  CIRCADIAN works with both management and employees to identify a set of ideal schedule solutions to meet operational and family/social needs.
• Fatigue risk management systems.  Comprehensive fatigue management programs will map out the course of action to maintain high safety standards while reducing costs associated with fatigue-related errors and incidents.
• Managing a shiftwork lifestyle.  These programs assist employees with managing their personal lifestyle and health, which will help minimize healthcare costs.