Manage Staffing Targets

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Overview

This is an overview of how you can manage staffing targets directly in the Manage Staffing page. Here’s a overview video describing how to do this, with instructions below for various topics.

Updating staffing targets

  1. Navigate to the Manage Staffing page.

  2. After customizing your settings in View Settings, you will be able to see your intended units and time spans in Manage Staffing

  3. Under each unit, there is a list of staffing targets per position

  4. You can update the staffing targets by first clicking into the Census field and updating the patient census numbers

  5. This automatically showcases the ideal staffing targets, based on the staffing grid that Vitalize has received from your unit

  6. After entering a new census number, you can see the certain positions’ staffing targets update, as indicated by a purple dot beside the staffing target

  7. To manually update the staffing targets, click the Staffing Targets Updated button at the bottom of each unit, and then click Manually Adjust Targets. You can manually make those updates.

  8. To revert back to manager defaults click the Staffing Targets Updated button at the bottom of each unit, and then click Revert Targets to Manager to revert it back to what the nurse manager set

Writing a note

  1. You are able to leave a note by scrolling to the bottom of each unit.

  2. Click the Notes toggle then click the Write a Note button

  3. Write your note

  4. These notes will save automatically and be visible to House Supervisors, Central Staffers, and Managers

  5. Central Staffers, House Supervisors, and Managers are able to read and write notes

Census Log

  1. Navigate to the Manage Staffing page.

  2. After customizing your settings in View Settings, you will be able to see your intended units and time spans in Manage Staffing

  3. At the top of each unit, there is a Census field. When this gets updated, Vitalize keeps a thorough list of changes for Staffing Leadership to monitor

  4. To view the Census Log, click the Census Log button on the top right.

  5. You can view the census update for any unit, what was updated, and who made those updates