PCSS™, Patient Classification and Staffing System
Source: QTA, Inc.
PCSS™ is a fully automated system designed to streamline and manage patient classification and staffing processes.
PCSS™ is the only patient classification (acuity) and staffing system that: (a) offers a facility for tracking outcomes in concert with JCAHO Standards of Staffing Effectiveness; (b) fully automates a true professional judgment model for patient classification, supported by an auto-prompted mechanism for documenting decision reasons; (c) is integrated with a one-of-a-kind staff assignment product, AssignmentCenter™, offering quick and easy unit-specific load balancing, (d) is self-auditing, with built-in statistical process control (SPC) to monitor staffing and classification processes for stability, consistency and validity within established limits; (e) captures acuity for the entire contact census -- each unit and each shift -- which translates to the most accurate staffing projections possible; (f) links staffing and classification data directly to financial data and render real-time feedback to decision makers, helping bridge the gap between nursing and finance departments by providing a sound tool for budgeting, and at the same time preventing "acuity creep;" (g) affords users the flexibility to embed unique unit-specific requirements (e.g., environmental, competency and regulatory requirements, etc.) in addition to acuity as a basis for staffing.