Simulation for Strategic Workforce Planning
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Simulation for Strategic Workforce Planning
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Presenters
Claire CordeauxExecutive Director, Healthcare SIMUL8 SIMUL8 [email protected]
Brittany HagedornSIMUL8 Healthcare Lead, North AmericaLEED [email protected]
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Housekeeping
• Audio
• Q and A
• Recording available on
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• How simulation can help plan and effectively deploy workforce
• Case studies from UK and US• “How to?” useful software features which can
help
“How do I know the workforce I need?”
Planning for Workforce
•Population demand
•Activity requirements
•Workforce capacity
•Cost
High level
•Managing hour by hour operations
•Matching competence to task
•Staff shifts and availability
Operational• Current workforce
• Forecasting leavers and joiners
• Matching to demand
• Planning and commissioning education and training/recruitment to meet needs
Workforce availability
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High Level
Planning for 24/7 primary care services to support older people
• Likely demand for service?• Capacity required?• Impact on hospital beds?
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Unscheduled Care Over 75s
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In 5 years
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Increasing demand for unscheduled care for over 75s
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In 5 years – if we bring in a Primary Care Locality Hub – unscheduled care only
1 FTE utilized 30%
of time
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Add Planned Care Activity
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Before Locality Hub: Year 1 -5
Emergency admission bed
utilizationTotal bed utilization
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After Locality Hub: Year 1 -5
Emergency admission bed
utilization – average
occupancy dropped by 20
Total bed utilization dropped
7%
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Staff Utilization
Year 1 – 1 FTE 84% utilized
Year 1- 5 – 1 FTE queue builds in
year 3
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MODELING OPERATIONSExamples and Case Studies
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Typical Questions
Evaluate Changes– What would happen if we changed the duration of a shift?– What will happen if we modify a protocol?– How do we need to staff as our volumes change?
Roles & Responsibilities– What is the ideal skill mix for the new unit?– Who should be responsible for tasks that a variety of different
people could perform?
Manage Costs– How can I minimize the overtime staff have to work?– At what point do we need to call in extra support?
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How do we model staffing at an operational level?
First approach: Model activity and use that to estimate staffing needs.
Model the Process Examine Results
3.0 FTE
Determine Needs
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How do we model staffing at an operational level?
Second approach: Staff availability constraints the process and impacts throughput.
Set Availability and Assign Tasks Examine Results
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Example: Staffing Ratios
• Environment – Operating Room.• Pain point – Patients can’t get in, but the operating rooms
themselves are frequently sitting idle.• Key inputs – OR schedule, Prep and recovery beds, Staffing ratios.• Key results – Patient delays & OR utilization.
Approach: Model the patient flow process and then use the simulation’s results to determine how many staff are needed, based on standard patient-to-nurse ratios.
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Example: Staffing Ratios
In this case, we didn’t have to model the staff directly. Because we knew that we could call in staff if we needed them, we assumed a staff-to-patient ratio of 4:1 and used bed occupancy as a proxy.
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Example: Staffing Utilization
• Environment – Outpatient clinic.• Pain point – Nurses are “never available” when needed.• Key inputs – Schedule and skill mix.• Key result – Utilization.
Approach: Since we believed the nurses were a constraint on patient throughput and were causing delays in care, they were modeled directly as a “resource” in the simulation. This resource was required in order to complete specific activities.
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Example: Staff Utilization
The simulation showed that less than 30% of nurses’ time was utilized for clinical tasks.
Validation was required in order to find out where the discrepancy was. After further interviews and observation, it turned out that the model was correct – BUT they were regularly getting pulled into low priority tasks and so were not readily available when needed.
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Example: Staffing Model
• Environment – Procedure clinic.• Pain point – Need to handle 2x the number of patients without
adding any new FTEs.• Key inputs – Patient process, Staff skill mix.• Key result – Throughput.
Approach: Lay out the individual tasks that need to be completed and then test various combinations of task assignments, in addition to anticipated Lean improvement efforts. Continue testing until desired throughput is achieved.
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Example: Staffing Model
Through an iterative process, many combinations of roles and responsibilities were tested. The tasks that needed to be completed were assigned to either specific skill levels (LPN, RN, CRNA) or to the pool of staff as a whole.
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SIMULATING STAFFConsiderations in SIMUL8
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Set Staff Availability
Select your
time block.
Flexible rotating schedule.
Factor in overlapping
shifts and breaks.
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Option: Staff Behaviors
Specify how your staff will behave at the
end of their shift or when going on a break.
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Option: Work to the Top of License
Select the most appropriate staff member for the task,
depending on which patient is needing attention.
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Pooling: Shared Responsibilities
Sometimes, there are multiple individuals who
could perform the same task, or who act as
“back up” when the day gets really busy.
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Key Operational Results
• Staff utilization• Time spent traveling• Average/Max number of busy individuals• Staffing costs
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Interval Results: New for 2015!
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Workforce Planning: typical questions
• Are the right skills available to meet demand when I need them?
• How many nurses should we train now to ensure skills are available in 5 years?
• Do we need to recruit from another region?
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Using State Charts to Simulate Workforce
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Matching Demand and Supply
• What if all providers decided to adopt the Primary Care Locality Hub Concept in a 5m population?
• How many specialist nurses would we need in 5 years time?
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QUESTIONS
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