Can Private Duty Providers Benefit From Using A Telephone Timekeeping System?
The biggest challenge faced by many private duty or home care providers is managing employees working in a variety of offsite locations. A telephone timekeeping system can alleviate these headaches by tracking nurses using patented Caller-ID technology. So what exactly is a telephone timekeeping system, and how does it work? Such programs provide a 1-800 number that employees can call from any telephone. Employees punch in a short employee code to clock in. The program uses this, as well as unique Caller-ID to track the nurses location, and “clocks in” the nurse and assures that he or she is in the right place. There is no hardware to buy – all that your nurse needs is access to a telephone. From the supervisory end, employers may monitor nurses activity through an informative web based interface. All that is needed to access this information is an internet connected computer. Some companies also provide the option to access this data from an iPhone or other web smartphone. So how can
