Where the six hours goes
Reconstructed bottom-up by counting fields across the twenty pages, then estimating what each document takes to complete by hand. It lands on six hours, which is a reasonable sign the method is sound — but it is an estimate, and we would like to replace it with your measurement.
per admission
the assessing, not the copying
53% of the total
Document by document
Bars are minutes. Hover any row for the reasoning behind the estimate.
E7 and CS 14B alone account for sixty-two minutes — a third of the total saving from two documents. E7 because roughly half of it is identity repetition or duplicate blocks that other forms already cover properly. CS 14B because it is arithmetic.
What we would not try to remove
A large part of the credibility of this exercise is being honest about the parts that are not going anywhere. None of the below is inefficiency — it is the job.
- Physical acts — property count, skin check, weighing and measuring, orientation walk, appliance test and tag
- Clinical judgment — complexity of needs, level of risk, pain assessment conversation, care plan narrative
- Third-party wait time — GP, NASC, pharmacy, hospital discharge summary
- Signatures and witnessing on the Advance Treatment Plan
- The full interRAI assessment — a separate, later, mandated instrument
If it were built in phases
Cumulative, in the order we would recommend.
| Phase | Scope | Saves | Time remaining |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Identity spine, family pre-arrival wizard, OR 10A, Dietary p1, Breakfast Order, ATP demographics | 35m | 5h 25m |
| B | E7 plus cross-form derivation into CS 19C, CS 13A and CS 22A | 1h 11m | 4h 14m |
| C | Calculation — CS 14B auto-scoring, nutritional indicators, BMI and weight-loss maths | 34m | 3h 40m |
| D | E5 live progress board, chase tracking, label and list generation | 50m | 2h 50m |
Phase B is the largest single block but depends on Phase A's data existing first. Phase C is the one to show a board — it outputs acuity classification and indicative RN hours, so it argues in staffing terms rather than convenience terms.
These are counted, not measured
Every number on this page comes from counting fields on your forms and estimating how long each takes by hand. That is a defensible method and it reconciles to your six hours, but it is not the same as watching an admission with a stopwatch.
If the real split is five hours of forms and one of coordination, the saving rises to about three and a half hours. If it is three and a half hours of forms and two and a half of coordination, it falls to about two and a half. Either way it is between two and a half and three and a half nursing hours per admission.
We have deliberately not put a dollar figure or a calculator on this site yet. Once we know your admissions per year and have a measured baseline, that calculator becomes worth building — and worth believing.
Admissions that happen between now and when we start cannot be measured retrospectively. A one-page tally sheet running alongside the next handful of admissions costs almost nothing and turns every number here from an estimate into evidence.
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