Do your Caregivers feel the stress of balancing time between documentation and patient care? It’s a rarely discussed problem that leads to a high turnover rate of caregivers, along with patient frustration. We’ll discuss why caregiver burnout happens and what you can do to protect your caregivers.
Caregiver Burnout Causes and Solutions
Documentation and timesheets are huge stressors for caregivers, eating up valuable time, making caregivers prone to entry errors, and putting a hamper on productivity.
Tedious documentation creates tension between caregivers and patients, causing patients to feel alienated as they wait on caregivers to give them the attention they need.
The most successful way to resolve the obstacles of time-consuming documentation and timesheets is to go paperless. The benefits of using paperless documents and timesheets are countless.
Your caregivers will have more time for patients, be able to collect E-signatures, and have access to E-documents with a few clicks. They’ll have the ability to email/fax forms, and drastically boost efficiency.
With paperless documentation, your caregivers will no longer need to worry about:
- Manually sorting through or keeping documents organized
- Trouble verifying information on timesheets
- Dealing with illegible handwriting
- Tackling the issue of missing signatures
- Scrambling to find missing files
- Discarding unwanted files
- Struggling to balance time between documentation and patient care
Scheduling Visits is another obstacle for caregivers when it comes to manually booking patients with multiple caregivers, overlapping of visits, and missed appointments.
With a digital scheduling platform, your caregivers can finally say goodbye to the headaches of manually scheduling clients. They can enjoy the benefits of E-scheduling in the following ways:
- Hassle-free scheduling of clients with different caregivers
- Customize scheduling as needed
- Receive schedule alerts to prevent missed visits
- No more worrying about overlapping of appointments
Communication is a major issue for caregivers when trying to relay or receive information to/from clients, staff, and family members. Many times clients feel a lack of connection or understanding due to inadequate communication channels.
2-Way Text messaging has alleviated these challenges by providing an instant communication channel that is easily accessible for caregivers, patients, and their family members. With 2-Way texting, caregivers have numerous advantages:
- Bulk Text Messages can be sent to and from Clients and Caregivers
- Communication Records can be easily accessed
- Instant messaging platform for 2-way communication
- Convenience and Simplicity combined
Communication is a major issue for caregivers when trying to relay or receive information to/from clients, staff, and family members. Many times clients feel a lack of connection or understanding due to inadequate communication channels.
2-Way Text messaging has alleviated these challenges by providing an instant communication channel that is easily accessible for caregivers, patients, and their family members. With 2-Way texting, caregivers have numerous advantages:
- Bulk Text Messages can be sent to and from Clients and Caregivers
- Communication Records can be easily accessed
- Instant messaging platform for 2-way communication
- Convenience and Simplicity combined
Conclusion
Caregiver burnout is a reality that your home care agency can’t afford to ignore. Your Home Care agency can step up to proactively be a part of the solution by implementing healthy daily practices that ease the load on caregivers and empower them with the ability to provide better patient care.
The primary causes of caregiver burnout can be overcome by embracing paperless solutions, including E-documentation, E-timesheets, digital scheduling, 2-Way Text communication, and so much more, in a single platform.
Caretap’s Comprehensive Home Health Care software has eliminated caregiver burnout for thousands of agencies and can help revolutionize how your HHCA operates. Find out how Caretap can optimize your agency’s operations.