Scheduling Efficiency for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies
Overview
Private Duty Nursing Home Care is skilled care provided one-on-one by a Private Duty Nurse (RN or LPN) to medically fragile adult and pediatric patients in the comfort of their homes. A patient's unique and complex health challenges require personalizing care, tailoring it to the physician-ordered Plan of Care. Private Duty Nursing home care is different from traditional home health as the service is typically provided in longer shifts, anywhere from 8 to 24 hours over a long period.
Unique, complex, and demanding scheduling requirements of Private Duty Nursing pose many challenges to home care agencies providing Private Duty Nursing Care. Scheduling is the lifeline of a Private Duty Home Care Agency. Effective scheduling maximizes staff utilization, reduces scheduling errors, reduces payroll costs, improves patient and employee satisfaction, and improves the agency's bottom line.
Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies should leverage technology and intelligent automation to improve scheduling efficiency. Improving scheduling efficiency will have a positive impact on many aspects of operations. A Home Care Agency Management software platform with efficient scheduling tools will improve the operational efficiency of Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.
This blog will discuss some of the vital scheduling features required in the software to improve the scheduling efficiency of Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.
