A Smarter Healthcare
Scheduling Solution

Improve Nurse Satisfaction and
Lower Labor Costs

A 2019 report by Sage Journals confirms what you suspected: The greater control nurses have over their schedules the happier they are about their jobs. But no matter how hard you try, you end up with misaligned schedules that frustrate your staff and take up manager’s days with time-consuming edits and ad-hoc fixes.

A Smarter Healthcare Scheduling Solution

Despite your best attempts, does this sound familiar?

The Puzzle

You spend hours trying to place the right number of staff with the right credentials at the right location

The Disappointment

Unsatisfactory schedules
Constant rework
A scramble to fill in gaps
Annoyed staff
Reliance on temp workers

The Impact

Dissatisfied patients
Low morale
High turnover
Excessive labor costs
Compromised care

What do Higher Retention, Savings and
Compliance Have in Common?

Zebra Reflexis Scheduling

Our mission at Zebra is to eliminate your unnecessary workarounds. That’s why we invested in Reflexis to bring its machine learning and AI-powered staff scheduling into the fold of our leading healthcare portfolio. Afterall, solving staffing issues can go far to solve challenges across your entire healthcare organization.

Relieve and Retain Nurses

Instantly create a schedule that saves you hours of work and provides each department with the right mix of accredited staff. Your nurses will thank you for the flexibility, convenience and control they gain and wonder how you manage to accommodate their preferences for shifts, locations and support.

Make scheduling easier

Decrease Labor Costs

Why pay for unnecessary overtime and agency temps, when you can resolve scheduling challenges with your existing workforce? It’s finally feasible and effortless with Zebra Reflexis. Let us show you how to better manage overtime and overspending and recoup losses from inefficiencies, now and in the future.

Reduce expenses

Minimize Risks

It is easier to maintain labor compliance and still have the right number of staff at the right time in the right place. Our technology leading solution aligns with ever-changing patient-acuity loads, regulations, and accreditation requirements. And most importantly, by having the right staff on hand, you minimize patient risk.

Improve staff levels

Top 6 Challenges in Nurse Scheduling Today

These keep nurses from what really matters – patient care

Scheduling is a major pain point for nurses and nurse managers today.

Zebra’s recent Workforce Management Healthcare Study of more than 300 nurses and nurse managers made one thing very clear: Scheduling is a major pain point for nurses and nurse managers today.

Only half of the managers view their scheduling processes and tools as “very” effective.

Did you know that 6 out of 10 managers say they spend more than one full day of their week managing schedules? Only half of the managers view their scheduling processes and tools as “very” effective.

Wasted time and inefficient processes are keeping nurses from spending time where it matters most - taking care of patients.

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Learn more about the top 6 challenges in nurse scheduling today:

TOP 6 DISRUPTIONS

54%

Blind spots

Only about half of the respondents can request shift swaps through their system (54%) – limited visibility slows down scheduling requests

63%

Siloed systems across departments and facilities in hospital system

63% of nurses want the option to work in more departments, but most can only bid/pick-up shifts in just one

71%

Turnover and retention

71% of survey respondents said that shift scheduling is vital to nursing overall job satisfaction

37%

Schedule equity

Only 37% of nurses say scheduling is “mostly fair”

60%

Manual workarounds

Nearly 60% of managers say they use email, excel, MS or some other manual or paper-based effort to schedule staff – often in addition to automated scheduling systems

78%

Flexibility

Nearly 80% of managers cite adjusting schedules to handle changes in patient acuity and employee availability that requires the most manual intervention (78%)

TOP

DISRUPTIONS