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Check-In Plus: Your questions, answered

Change is hard at any organization, especially when it involves new employee procedures and policies. But with the right preparation and planning, change can often make a positive impact on your clients and staff.

We understand that you may have questions or concerns about SteadyCare Check-In Plus — any new system is bound to come with some uncertainty. With that in mind, we’ve provided answers to some of the most common questions we hear from our clients.

If you still have questions after reading through this list, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your SteadyCare customer success manager.

The Benefits of Shifting Your Circadian Rhythm for Night Shifts

Awake overnight staff may have the same responsibilities as daytime workers; but there’s an extra battle they have to fight: drowsiness.

Employee sleep deprivation can lead to a whole host of issues on the job, including confusion, poor productivity and accidents. In fact, sleep deprivation has been linked to some major historical disasters, such as Chernobyl and the Exxon oil spill.

8 Ideas to Stay Awake During Your Overnight Shift

8 Ideas To Stay Awake
Tips to stay awake during your awake overnight shift

1.) Chore and task lists
Having varied activities throughout the night can keep you active and awake.

Monitoring Your Staff: Big Brother or Safety System?

Awake overnight staff management, security check-ins at malls, and Electronic Visit Verification for home health aides are all examples of employee monitoring. The term “monitoring” has been a point of contention over the years—bouncing from bad to good to bad (and back again). The ambivalence surrounding this word deserves a little more exploration.

SteadyCare Presentation with Disability Cocoon Tech Huddle

SteadyCare recently sat down with Disability Cocoon for one of their weekly Tech Huddles. Take a look at the video to learn more about SteadyCare, and the Check-In Plus platform.

3 Reasons Personality is Important in Hiring Night-Shift Employees

Your night shift employees are necessary for providing around-the-clock care, especially in the healthcare industry. Although these hires may not see action every night, their position is vital for your business. Here’s a simple guide to the importance of personality in your night shift workers. These jobs require personality and adaptability to wherever the night takes you.

How to Remove Stress from Your Night Shift Employment Situation

The night shift isn’t typically desired, but sometimes you can’t avoid it. Whether it’s retail, restaurant/bar work, medical, or some other field, there’s always a demand for workers in these late hours. You can make lemons out of lemonade and learn how to make the best out of this situation for you and your employees. This is how to remove stress from your night shift employment.

Presence Monitoring and Verification is Not an Add-on

Why You Should Choose SteadyCare Over a Workforce Management Solution That Treats Presence Monitoring Like an Add-On

By all means, your facility should probably be using a workforce management solution to meet the needs of your staff. But when it comes to employee monitoring and presence verification, you should trust SteadyCare to do the job. If an incident happens: being able to validate employee presence is a valuable resource to have. Being proactive with using presence monitoring and verification software can also help your agency reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring because of awake overnight staff issues.