Any inpatient, shift-based specialty, such as a hospitalist service, needs to have a firm understanding of anticipated staffing.\u00a0 Whether the schedule is completed in 3-month, 6-month, or annual blocks, forecasting staffing for a hospitalist service or other inpatient program is critical to understand where there may be shortcomings.\u00a0 Deficiencies in staffing are not simple.\u00a0 Given different hospitalists may work different types of shifts and be full-time or part-time, understanding a service’s staffing position can be complex.\u00a0 For example, is the service overstaffed for days but understaffed for evenings?\u00a0 What about night shifts?\u00a0 Is there enough staffing to support adding an extra hospitalist during the day, evening, or night?\u00a0 The fact that shift-based specialties are constituted not only by employed physicians, but also by moonlighting physicians as well as by employed and moonlighting Advanced Practice Providers makes the staffing puzzle even more complex.<\/p>\n
This is why OnServiceMD implemented staffing insights.\u00a0 By understanding where shift deficits and surpluses may exist for a given schedule block, program leaders and administrators can better predict how their service will be staffed, ensure recruitment focuses on the right roles or determine how to focus moonlighting efforts for a particular scheduling block.\u00a0 Once a program enters their staff into the system, OnServiceMD will help answer these important questions and position the service to manage future schedule blocks more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Any inpatient, shift-based specialty, such as a hospitalist service, needs to have a firm understanding of anticipated staffing.\u00a0 Whether the schedule is completed in 3-month, 6-month, or annual blocks, forecasting staffing for a hospitalist service or other inpatient program is critical to understand where there may be shortcomings.\u00a0 Deficiencies in staffing are not simple.\u00a0 Given different hospitalists may work different types of shifts and be full-time or part-time, understanding a service’s staffing position can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n