Create a swing-room schedule

This tutorial guides you through creating a swing-room schedule, enabling you to efficiently organize surgeries by selecting room type, surgery date & times, operating rooms, team members, and surgery types.

Click "New Schedule" to start creating a new swing-room schedule.

Click "Swing Room" to choose the scheduling format.

Click the date field to specify the schedule's date and the first surgery's wheels in time for this operating room

Change the date or time for this schedule

Click "Next" to continue to the next configuration step.

Click "First room of the day" to designate the initial operating room for the schedule. You can designate either room as the first swing room. Swing Room 1 does not have to be the first operating room of the day

Select the operating room for swing room 1

Select your pre-op nurse, circulating nurse, anesthesiologist, and surgeon for swing room 1.

Once you've selected your surgical team for swing rooms one and two, click "Next" to proceed to the next scheduling configuration.

Add the surgeries for each swing room. You don't need to switch from one swing room to another; you can add all the surgeries for each room one at a time.

Enter an account number for each surgery. The account number can be any identifier in your EHR for this specific surgery. It's best not to use the patient's MRN.

Click "Select Surgery Type" to choose the type of surgery

Make sure to add the surgery to the schedu

Click "Create Schedule" to finalize and save the new swing-room schedule.

You have successfully created a swing-room schedule by selecting the appropriate format, setting the start time, assigning rooms and team members, entering account details, and specifying the surgery type. The schedule is now ready to record metrics.