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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.