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 WA Health is committed to maintaining a comprehensive workload management process for nurses and midwives in Western Australia under its application of the Nurses (WA Government Health Services) Exceptional Matters Order (EMO) 2001.
The EMO (2001) requires that the Department of Health meet the following duties with regard to the management of nursing workloads in WA.
- Duty to prevent sustained unreasonable workload.
- Duty to allocate and roster nurses in accordance with process consistent with reasonable workload principles.
- Duty to consult, communicate and constructively interact about health service provision to patients.
The Nursing Hours per Patient Day (NHpPD) model provides a systematic monitoring and measuring system to identify the number of nursing hours required to provide patient care in a specific clinical area.
A benchmarking process was undertaken in 2000/01 to identify initial NHpPD targets. All metropolitan and country sites were consulted to identify the defining categories for all clinical areas. Benchmarks were consequently set.
The NHpPD model also incorporates a review process to allow sites to submit a business case to have their benchmark formally reviewed and updated against articulated criteria.
As part of WA Health's commitment to the legislation, an annual and interim report is published to demonstrate progress against NHpPD benchmarks targets.
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