The doctor to nurse hours ratio is an important metric for workforce planning and the profitability of the practice.
The Hours of Doctor time for each hour of Nurse time metric can be found in Clinic Insights > Future clinic metrics.
The metric takes your doctors' total session hours and divides them by your nurses' total session hours. This is a forward-looking metric, looking by default, at the next 7 days. You can look further ahead by changing the date range filter.
For example, if your practice has one doctor available for 20 session hours that week, and a registered nurse is available for 10 session hours that week, the Doctor to Nurse ratio would be 2.0, meaning you have twice the number of doctor hours to nurse hours.
The sections in this article relating to this metric include:
- Hours of Doctor time for each hour of Nurse time
- Daily hours of Doctor time for each hour of Nurse time
- Total hours of Doctor time to total hours of Nurse time
- Session Hours by Doctor
- Session Hours by Nurse
Hours of Doctor time for each hour of Nurse time
This figure shows the average ratio of rostered doctor hours to each rostered nurse hour for the next 7 days. Higher values indicate that there is a greater number of doctors relative to the number of nurses rostered.
By default, this metric will show the next seven days.
TOP TIP! Use this metric in your practice to quickly analyse what your future doctor to nurse ratio is. If you see that it is sitting higher or lower than a sustainable level for your practice, dive into the metric for further detail.
Daily hours of Doctor time for each hour of Nurse time
The daily hours of doctor time for each hour of nurse time now takes the ratio and breaks it down on a daily basis for each day of the time period you are viewing. A darker colour denotes a higher doctor-to-nurse ratio, meaning there are more doctor hours that day than nurse hours.
Use the date range filter to look further ahead.
TOP TIP! Use this metric to quickly find your doctor-to-nurse ratio. Practices can use this metric for future workforce planning. For example, a doctor has gone on leave next week and you may have the same amount of nurses still on. How does this affect your practice?
Total hours of Doctor time to total hours of Nurse time
This metric details the total doctor session hours to total nurse session hours. This is then shown in more detail in the next two metrics. Use these to help you understand which Best Practice appointment books Cubiko is calculating the session hours from for the ratio.
NOTE: Overlapping sessions can be a common cause for data not to be accurate for your Doctor to Nurse ratio. Reconcile your Best Practice data and check for overlapping sessions if your ratio doesn't look right.
Session Hours by Doctor
This metric details the total session hours for each doctor across the date range you are viewing. All of these session hours added together are the total hours of doctor time used in the ratio calculation.
Session Hours by Nurse
This metric details the total session hours for each nurse across the date range you are viewing. All of these session hours added together are the total hours of nurse time used in the ratio calculation.
