Build Safe, Fair Nurse Schedules
Create compliant AI schedules that respect your nurse preferences, maintain safe ratios, and honour labor agreements.
No more unsafe staffing levels
Reduce your time scheduling with automatic schedule generation
Guaranteed compliance
Flexible preference based self-scheduling
Safer Staffing Starts with Smart Scheduling
Build compliant and safe nurse schedules in minutes, not days. Discover how:
Automatic schedule generation
Eliminate the need for manual scheduling with our AI schedule generation giving you time back to focus on what's important.
Stay compliant with labor laws
Never break compliance on contractual requirements, critical staff rules or labor requirements.
Improve flexibility through self-scheduling
Empower nurses with flexibility while maintaining fairness and compliance with core rules and requirements.
Ensure safe staffing levels for nurses
Identify understaffing and skill gaps before they become issues, maintaining safe patient-to-nurse ratios.
Staff Preferences
Perfect For Nurse Scheduling Challenges
Eliminate Favoritism
Ensure fairness, reduce the perception of favoritism, and create a more inclusive work environment for nurses.
Ensure Clinical Safety
Ensure nurses are working safely, enhancing overall patient outcomes and trust in patient care.
Reduce Nurse Fatigue
Enhance overall work-life balance and minimize fatigue for your staff.
Improve Staffing Level Accuracy
Understand your staffing levels better and how many people are required for each role.
Meet More Staff Preferences
Help nurses achieve better work-life balance by considering a high percentage of staff preferences whilst ensuring critical business needs are met.
Modern Nurse Scheduling Software for Teams
Real outcomes that improve nurse wellbeing and patient care
Reduction in Scheduling Time
Nurse managers spend days less per month on scheduling, redirecting time to patient care and team support.
Stable Staffing
Safe nurse-to-patient ratios maintained across every shift, with instant alerts and compliant replacement suggestions when changes occur.
Transparent Schedule Assignment
Fair, automated scheduling eliminates favoritism and bullying through transparent, bias-free shift allocation.
How Nurses Engage with Their Schedules
Built around self-scheduling and nurse autonomy, not just top-down scheduling
Set Staffing Requirements
Define minimum ratios, skill mix needs (ICU-trained, paeds, etc.), and ward coverage requirements.
Nurses Submit Preferences
Via mobile app, nurses indicate shift preferences, time off requests, and availability. No emails or paper forms.
AI Generates Safe Schedule
RosterLab balances preferences, skills, and compliance rules to create fair schedules with safe staffing levels.
Publish to Mobile
Schedules sync instantly to nurses' phones. They see their shifts, can request swaps, and get real-time updates.
Nurses Self-Schedule Open Shifts
Unfilled shifts are posted as "open shifts" - nurses can pick them up directly if qualified and within hour limits.
Handle Last-Minute Changes
If someone calls in sick, RosterLab shows who can safely fill the gap without breaking ratios or fatigue rules.
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See How It WorksEssential Features for Nurse Scheduling
Purpose-built tools that address the unique complexity of nursing schedules
Safe Staffing Enforcement
Configurable patient-to-nurse ratios by ward and shift. The system will flag unsafe and understaffed schedules.
Skill Mix Management
Ensure every shift has the right skills present by creating rules to ensure a balanced mix of skills is present on your schedule.
Labor Law Automation
Enforce rules, minimum rest periods, maximum consecutive shifts, and contractual obligations.
Mobile Self-Scheduling
Nurses submit preferences, apply for open shifts, and manage time-off requests directly from their phones.
Instant Schedule Changes
When nurses call in sick, see who's qualified and available to fill the gap without breaking safety rules.
Fatigue Prevention
Track hours worked, enforce rest periods, and prevent dangerous consecutive shift patterns that lead to burnout.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions we hear from nursing managers
RosterLab enforces minimum staffing requirements and skill mix rules for every shift. The AI will red flag schedules that violate your configured patient-to-nurse ratios, ensuring clinical safety is never compromised. You can set different ratios by ward and shift type.
Yes. Nurses can submit shift preferences, time-off requests, and availability through our mobile app. RosterLab's self-scheduling feature lets nurses bid for available shifts while the system maintains compliance with labor laws, fatigue management, and skill mix requirements.
RosterLab identifies replacement nurses who meet the skill requirements and are available. You can see who's qualified, check their recent hours to avoid fatigue, and fill the gap quickly. The system prevents unsafe ratios by alerting you if a shift can't be safely covered.
RosterLab uses algorithm-based shift allocation that eliminates subjective bias. Every shift assignment is based on objective criteria: skills, availability, workload balance, and compliance rules. The system creates an audit trail showing exactly why each nurse was assigned to each shift, making favoritism impossible and providing accountability if disputes arise.
Yes. RosterLab's gives you complete visibility of all team competencies across your nursing staff. You can instantly see which critical skills are held by only one or two people, identify risks, and plan accordingly. The system alerts you when key skills are missing from a shift.
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