RosterLab automatically generates nursing and midwifery rosters around staff preferences, skill mix, coverage and union agreements.
RosterLab builds nursing and midwifery rosters that balance clinical coverage with time off and individual working arrangements, reducing roster admin while helping your team recover between shifts and plan life outside work.
Designed for nursing and midwifery rostering across:
Primary care nursing | Dargaville Medical Centre, New Zealand
Dargaville Medical Centre reduced preparation of its four-week roster from 2–3 days to around three hours, including review and adjustments, while accommodating nurses’ working arrangements and preferences.
“With RosterLab, the rostering process has been dramatically reduced, and we believe it will only get quicker.”
Balancing everyone’s needs takes time and care. RosterLab builds the roster around your rules and staff requests, so you spend less time piecing shifts together and more time supporting your team.
A fair roster helps staff plan their lives and recover between shifts. RosterLab balances nights and weekends around contracted hours, agreed arrangements and individual preferences.
RosterLab applies your employment agreement rules and rest requirements during roster generation, flagging potential violations for you to review.
You shouldn’t have to hold every staffing detail in your head. See gaps in headcount, senior cover and clinical skills before publishing, so you know where extra support is needed.
Whether it's ensuring an in-charge nurse is rostered each night, maintaining the right RN/EN mix or meeting patient-to-nurse ratios, RosterLab builds these requirements into every roster. Midwifery teams can define the competencies needed across antenatal, birthing and postnatal services.
Explore AI-rostering
Nurses and midwives submit preferences, request swaps and apply for open shifts through the app. RosterLab weighs requests across the team alongside coverage and agreement rules, helping you find a fairer balance.
Explore self-scheduling
One shift change can affect someone’s rest, contracted hours or availability tomorrow. RosterLab’s optimisation works through these connected requirements across the roster, helping you find a workable balance without checking every combination by hand.
| Rostering task | Manual rostering in Excel or traditional software | RosterLab |
|---|---|---|
| Creating allocations | Shifts filled one by one, every rule checked manually. | AI allocates shifts around staffing needs, rules and staff requests. |
| Balancing connected needs | Competing requirements weighed up one decision at a time. | Coverage, fairness and preferences balanced across the entire roster. |
| Handling absences | Last-minute changes can mean hours of reshuffling and rechecking shifts. | Affected shifts re-rostered automatically, ready for manager review. |
Our implementation specialists help turn your existing rules and working arrangements into a roster setup for your team. We train your roster writers, review the first generated roster with you and discuss how RosterLab fits your current systems.
Questions we hear from nursing and midwifery managers
Bring your shift patterns, staffing requirements and biggest rostering challenges. We'll show you how RosterLab can help.
