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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.