The Target/Schedule Page

The Target/Schedule page displays staffing information as graphs to help you make staffing decisions for the direct caregivers configured for Demand and Patient Events.

Both the Caregiver and Ratio Views use the following data to create staffing graphs.

• The Target staffing levels by global skill associated with the Demand for each specific patient pattern. The sources for Demand Target calculations include:
  • The acuity level for each pattern (or the default acuity level associated with each patient pattern for locations without Outcomes-Driven Acuity or for patients without a completed assessment)
  • Actual ADT events
  • Projected departures and discharges based on the dates entered on the Administer Patient Pattern page
  • Actual and projected Other patient events.
• The number of staff scheduled by global skill for the selected profile or profiles over the selected period

The Caregiver View uses the following additional data:

• The projected Target staffing for the next 36 hours if the current date and time is in view
• The historical average Target staffing for the selected profiles
• The minimum staffing by Global Skill if configured

The Ratio View uses the following additional data:

• Patient Census (to calculate ratios)
• The projected ratio for the next 36 hours using the current census and projected target and scheduled caregivers
• The State Mandated Ratio for one Global Skill per profile (if configured)
• The budgeted ratio by Global Skill if configured

The Utilization range (as defined on the Demand Manager Facility Settings Utilization page) displays utilization in one hour and two hour increments over your selected period. How Demand Manager calculates utilization depends on your selected View option.

• If you select Caregivers with Util as Target/Schedule, Demand Manager calculates percent utilization as Target Hours divided by Actual (Scheduled) Hours.
• If you select Ratio with Util as Schedule/Target, Demand Manager calculates Utilization as the Scheduled ratio divided by the Target ratio.
• If you select Ratio with Util as Schedule/Budgeted, Demand Manager calculates Utilization as the Scheduled ratios divided by the Budgeted ratio.

The graph always displays three days of data; it orients the center of the display to the current date and time by default.

To be displayed on the Target/Schedule page, profiles and locations must have Demand Settings configured. The application configures default Demand Settings automatically when a Clinical Consultant maps a location to a Profile during the Demand Manager implementation. You can update Demand settings on the Demand Manager Location Settings configuration page.

For a Global Skill to be available under the Target/Schedule page Selection Criteria, it must:

• Have workload, by skill, configured in Demand Manager for the location OR
• Have Patient Events selected in the Staff Manager Client Skills dialog box.

See Calculating Staffing Levels in Demand Manager for more information on how target staffing is calculated, including the effect of ADT and Other Patient Events.

Additional Information

When you select a Ratio view, the Demand History option is unavailable.

If you have set a State Mandated Ratio Skill and Nurse:Patient ratio, the Ratio views only use that skill when calculating ratios regardless of how many Global Skills you have selected.

Demand Manager saves your selections by your login, and displays them when you return to this page on subsequent log ins.

Your profile and location selections persist from page to page within Demand Manager. Once you select either a different profile or location, the Go button becomes available. If this is your first visit to this page, all profiles and locations associated with user security access are checked; however, the graph does not display until you click Go.

The ratio and caregiver views have an inverse relationship to each other. A high ratio correlates to lower care hours per patient, while a high number of caregivers correlates to higher care hours. In the ratio views, the utilization calculations were purposefully selected to align the Utilization ranges as set in Configure Facility Settings, where blue utilization indicates over staffing and yellow and red utilization indicate understaffing.

See The Target/Schedule Page Graph Options for more information about using the Graph Options.

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