AcuityPlus ensures that your Nursing Department is prepared for impending legislation while optimizing patient safety and staff satisfaction.

This total resource management system provides valid, reliable data for staffing, productivity, budget projection, and management.

AcuityPlus Ability to Address SB 867 Requirements:

SB 867 Requirement

AcuityPlus

Minimum direct care RN:Pt staffing needs

AcuityPlus supports and enhances your organization€™s base staffing plan.

Complexity of complete care

The Complexity of Care Module uses patient classifications to calculate patient and unit complexity. 

Assessment of patient admission

AcuityPlus allows nursing staff to quickly and easily select and classify patients based on their assessed care needs.

Volume of ADT activity

AcuityPlus features a live or manual ADT feed and reports summarizing data as a procedural component of the workload.

Evaluation of ongoing physical assessments

AcuityPlus features instant on-going classification capability.

Discharge planning

AcuityPlus provides users with the information they need to assess patient€™s readiness for discharge.

Assessment after a change in condition

AcuityPlus features instant on-going classification capability.

Assessment of the need for referrals

AcuityPlus features customized indicators for tracking purposes and/or obtaining patient list.

Complexity of clinical judgment to design/implement POC

The Complexity of Care Module provides both individual and unit complexity measures.

Need for specialized equipment/technology

This feature is currently in development.  It is scheduled for release in late 2007.

Skill mix of other personnel contributing to direct patient care

AcuityPlus allows individual organizations to incorporate the skills and hours of other personnel contributing to patient care into the system.

Involvement in QI activities

The Outcomes Module provides patient specific and/or unit based data.

Professional preparation

AcuityPlus allows individual organizations to establish custom staffing parameters.

Experience

AcuityPlus allows individual organizations to establish custom staffing parameters

Ongoing assessments of unit acuity

AcuityPlus features instant reporting and user-defined reporting time frames for data analysis.

Identification of additional direct care RNs needed due to unexpected patient needs exceeding planned workload

AcuityPlus provides instant acuity-based staffing recommendations.  The system also features a Staffing Forecaster tool.