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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
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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.