Enhance break compliance and reduce fatigue

Intelligent scheduling powered by our patent-pending algorithms ensures better break compliance, allowing nurses to take well-timed and uninterrupted breaks earlier in their shifts. This approach significantly reduces nurse fatigue, promotes well-being, and enhances overall care quality.

Optimize break management and reduce cost

Our advanced algorithms manage multiple breaks simultaneously, optimizing staffing levels and resource allocation. This not only reduces the costs associated with break coverage but also increases operational efficiency, ensuring seamless patient care.

Streamlined break coordination and handoff

WellShift automates break transfer reports and synchronizes break coverage responsibilities and tasks by seamlessly integrating with hospital EMRs. This saves valuable time and enhances workload equity and patient care.

Build a sustainable break management model

Delight and retain your nurse workforce

As an experienced CNO and nurse manager, you've worked hard to develop a culture that addresses both your nurses' and patients' needs. You want to maintain that momentum amidst nurse shortages, budget concerns, increasing regulations, and patient demands. How can you do that? By optimizing your break management with WellShift to reduce your nurse fatigue and save money in the process.

There are two primary break models in the United States, and each one has its challenges...

The Break Buddy model

Nurses covering their patients and their buddy's patients during break coverage.

Unsafe patient staff ratios (for example, 10-16 patients in medical surgical units)
Nurses on break are frequently interrupted
Breaks often occur too late in the shift
Unsafe break buddy models exacerbate nurse fatigue

The Break Nurse model

Uses break or resource nurses to relieve each nurse individually.

Breaks often occur too late in the shift
Often requires two break nurses per shift to ensure all nurses get timely breaks
Lack of technology to coordinate handoffs can lead to long transition times
Inefficient break nurse models are cost prohibitive

WellShift addresses the limitations in both models on your terms.

Desktop application

WellShift's Break Management Software provides nurses, charge nurses, and nurse managers everything they need to optimize breaks and control break resource costs.

The software is made available on desktop computers as an embedded component of your hospital's EMR.

Advanced customization options empower charge nurses to optimize break performance

Coordinate how break nurses, floor nurses and charge nurses cover breaks
Ensure break coverage meets state or hospital enforced break coverage policies
Optimize workload equity during break coverage

Predictive analytics provides actionable insights in how to

Maximize break resources to execute more breaks earlier in the shift
Maximize costs savings on break resources
Increase break compliance rates for meal and rest breaks

Give charge nurses full control to adjust the algorithm to meet unit demands and staff resources, ensuring optimal operation under varying conditions.

Works with “break nurse” and safe “break buddy” models
Plug and play break and resource nurses into break coverage
Determine charge nurse’s level of involvement in break coverage

Nurses can select both their preferred break times and preferred companions, boosting job satisfaction and team cohesion.

Mobile app

WellShift's Mobile App is an essential part of the system, designed to simplify and enhance break coordination amongst nurses, break nurses, and charge nurses.

Integrates with hospital EMRs to notify nurses which tasks to complete before breaks to ensure workload equity and uninterrupted breaks
Syncs with EMR to provide outstanding tasks and task priorities
Automates the composition of break transfer reports, saving nurses valuable time
Customize transfer reports to hospital's preferred format, whether it's SBAR or I-PASS
Allows audio reports for nurses on the go
Understand at a glance when your break or any of your nurse buddy break are scheduled
Gives nurses full control of their breaks to meet their needs and their patient needs

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Ready to reduce costs and enhance your nursing staff's work environment?

With WellShift, you're investing in a future where healthcare professionals can thrive, enhancing both quality of patient care and staff well-being through innovative technology.

Innovative break and task management software