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3-Minute Turnover - December 2018 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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begging people to stay over. Late differen- tial. Because our days would often routinely run over in the busy winter months, we asked the governing body to approve differential pay. We applied the $2- per-hour differential after 4 p.m. for any OR staff still working, and after 5 p.m. for the PACU team. The differential, as much a financial incentive as it was an acknowl- edgment for the extra time, went a long way with the team. It definitely had a positive impact on morale and made late days more bearable and financially 2 Staffing S 2 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 8 W e found a free, easy-to- use app called When I Work for scheduling staff at our small sur- gery center. You can access it from your phone and it's free for facilities with fewer than 75 employees. Each teammate logs in to register their phone. Then the managers can log in to pull up monthly or weekly calendars. The manager can assign shifts by department or for the whole facility. Each employee can then acknowledge their shift, which shows up as a green check mark. You can even assign roles like SPD or PACU so you don't accidental- ly have too many staff in the same role for a particular day. Staff can also indicate their availability 2 to 3 months out. It's made scheduling a breeze! Ryan Anderson, MBA Grants Pass (Ore.) Surgery Center ryan.anderson@scasurgery.com This Free App Makes Scheduling a Breeze • EASY SCHEDULING See all your staff's avail- ability at a glance with the When I Work schedul- ing app.

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