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NurseAssign

Patients assigned to nurses each shift by the ward’s own acuity levels, with every nurse’s load on the board — and nurses floated between wards counted on both.

Installs with WardLine, whose screen it works on

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What it is

The nurse in charge’s shift board. The hospital writes its own acuity levels — its own names, each with the weight it counts for — and each ward may set the most load one nurse should carry; nothing is filled in, because the acuity tool and its weights are the nursing department’s choice. Each shift every inpatient on the ward gets a level and one nurse. A nurse who is not on StaffDesk’s rota for that date and shift can be given patients only with a reason. A nurse’s load is the sum of their patients’ weights — a patient with no level yet counts 1, and the board says so — and a nurse over the ward’s ceiling is flagged for the nurse in charge, never refused. A shift can start from the one before: the levels carry over, and so do nurses who are on this shift’s rota, filling only empty places. Every assignment is a row, so who looked after whom on any shift stays on the record. A nurse floated from their home ward to a short-staffed one for a shift is recorded once, with the reason, and both boards count it — the receiving ward sees who came in, the home ward who it lent — so a floated nurse is never invisible to either ward’s numbers. The move is the manager’s decision; this records it.

Who uses it: Built for: Every specialty
Reads: Inpatients and beds (WardLine), the duty rota (StaffDesk)
Writes: Acuity levels per shift, nurse assignments, the ward’s ceiling, floats between wards
Never: It does not score acuity or choose the nurse — the nurse in charge does — and it ships no acuity tool or weights.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: PHI-lite. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Every assignment and acuity level is kept and can still be read.

In the product

Who uses it: Operations manager — the demo profile it is best tried as
Where it opens: Clinical › Nurse Assignments /nurse-assign
Permission: nurseassign.read

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How it works

Your levelsYour department’s acuity levels and their weights.
One nurse eachEvery inpatient, every shift; off the rota with a reason.
Load on the boardEach nurse’s weights against the ceiling; floats in and out counted.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not score acuity or choose the nurse — the nurse in charge does — and it ships no acuity tool or weights.

AI in NurseAssign

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in NurseAssign today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

NurseAssign — Nurse Assignments — Assign each inpatient to a nurse every shift by acuity, and see who is carrying too much — 01Nurse Assignments — Assign each inpatient to a nurse every shift by acuity, and see who is carrying too muchCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Nurse Assignments — Assign each inpatient to a nurse every shift by acuity, and see who is carrying too muchCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

Reads from · 3

Patient Registry StaffDesk WardLine

Hands to · 4

HandOver InfectionWatch InfusionBoard OrderPad

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Questions clinics ask

What does NurseAssign do?

Patients assigned to nurses each shift by the ward’s own acuity levels, with every nurse’s load on the board — and nurses floated between wards counted on both. The nurse in charge’s shift board. The hospital writes its own acuity levels — its own names, each with the weight it counts for — and each ward may set the most load one nurse should carry; nothing is filled in, because the acuity tool and its weights are the nursing department’s choice. Each shift every inpatient on the ward gets a level and one nurse. A nurse who is not on StaffDesk’s rota for that date and shift can be given patients only with a reason. A nurse’s load is the sum of their patients’ weights — a patient with no level yet counts 1, and the board says so — and a nurse over the ward’s ceiling is flagged for the nurse in charge, never refused. A shift can start from the one before: the levels carry over, and so do nurses who are on this shift’s rota, filling only empty places. Every assignment is a row, so who looked after whom on any shift stays on the record. A nurse floated from their home ward to a short-staffed one for a shift is recorded once, with the reason, and both boards count it — the receiving ward sees who came in, the home ward who it lent — so a floated nurse is never invisible to either ward’s numbers. The move is the manager’s decision; this records it.

What data does NurseAssign read and write?

NurseAssign reads inpatients and beds (WardLine), the duty rota (StaffDesk) and writes acuity levels per shift, nurse assignments, the ward’s ceiling, floats between wards. Its data class is PHI-lite. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does NurseAssign deliberately not do?

It does not score acuity or choose the nurse — the nurse in charge does — and it ships no acuity tool or weights.

What happens to our data if we uninstall NurseAssign?

Every assignment and acuity level is kept and can still be read.

Is NurseAssign available today?

Yes — NurseAssign is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see NurseAssign running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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