TCheers

Four hours class? That would mean I need to pay the staff to take the class and others to fill the shifts. Your not impressed? How long ago did you guys switch and do you use it at a management level?

Hello everyone, I figured that scheduling would be huge on here since scheduling impacts all of us but when I search for scheduling all the posts I saw were from years ago. I have recently been tasked with doing some research for my hospital on new scheduling systems and wanted to get input from people that actually use them before having to talk to some salesmen. When I search on here for scheduling the first thing that comes up is two ads for API and ShgiftHound. My hospital went to API about a year and a half ago, the decision was supposed to include nursing but IT locked us out and chose them. We were all angry but at the time our CNO was on the way out and she didn't want to rock the boat so we got stuck with a system that was/is truly horrible. From a staff perspective it's slow and isn't user friendly. I moved to managment and then the real work began, I won't go into bashing but just to say that it's taken 1 1/2 years and now more than half our nursing departments went back to excel. The messaging is the worst and we just couldn't get things done. So, here we are and now we get to make the next decision, I think IT is staying out of it since they made the wrong decision last time. We are a Kronos house so we will naturally look at them, since I don't know anything about ShiftHound and they placed an ad on here I'll give them a try. My question is to any/everyone: Which ones have you used and which one should I look at? I naturally did a google search and found the following: Kronos ShiftWizard Clarvia SmartSquare ScheduleAnywhere Anything you can offer will be helpful and I'll put in my report as background info from our peers. THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

Wow, this is like almost two years old but scheduling is still a nightmare. What does everyone use. There isn't any solutions here. We hated API so much we went back to paper. Lovely IT forced it down our throats without even consulting nursing. Gotta love those guys.

Hello everyone! I was doing a web search on Kronos and saw this board with this post. I am actually a former nurse but am employeed with McKesson and work on the ANSOS product. I can say with absolutle certainty that API does not have any intention to deveop a interface to Kronos, their biggest competitor. With their recent purchase by GE there has been talk about it but their focus is going to be conversion on existing market share to the API T&A system which will be going through an overhaul. That being said, ANSOS DOES have the ability to interface with Kronos. :-) Message me if you need any information.