Location and Site - Definition

Location: The Scheduler allows the scheduling of one location, with any number of separate sites in that location up to a maximum of 64 shifts across all sites. Additional scheduling locations can be added for a nominal price; please contact ByteBloc Software for a quote. ByteBloc can be enabled to schedule an unlimited number of locations. Location schedules are completely independent of each other (such as resident and attending schedules), so that a Dr. Smith working in the schedule of one location is considered a different provider from a Dr. Smith working in the schedule of a second location.

A location can contain only one site (see the definition of a site immediately below), or it can contain more than one site that requires 'coordinated' scheduling. 'Coordinated' or 'integrated' scheduling means that the Scheduler does know that a Dr. Smith working at one site is the same as the Dr. Smith working at another site. The Scheduler will not schedule Dr. Smith for conflicting shifts at the separate sites that are contained in a single location, even if these shifts are located at different sites.

Site: Each scheduling location(as defined above) can be further divided into separate sites. The schedule of each site can be printed separately, but a Dr. Smith working at one site is known to be the same provider as the Dr. Smith working at a second site within the same location, allowing coordination of the schedules between the two sites. A location may contain only one site, or it can contain more than one site. All sites at a location can be printed on one schedule a 'Main schedule', or each site can be printed separately as 'Site Main schedules'. If there are more than two sites in one location, you can even print them in any combination of your choosing. A site can be a separate physical setting or simply shifts that make sense being printed together as a schedule.

Note: Within a given site, a shift cannot share the same line as another shift. You can either put the new shifts in a new site or use the right and left position to decrease the number of empty lines.

Example: Suppose you are scheduling an emergency department (ER) and an affiliated urgent care clinic (Clinic), staffed by both physicians and physician assistants (PA's). Some physicians routinely work in both the ER and the Clinic, and physicians are sometimes used to fill PA shifts when no PA is available. For this reason, even though you may want the ER, Clinic and PA schedules printed separately, the provider scheduling needs to be coordinated to allow individual providers to work shifts in the ER, Clinic and PA schedules without being scheduled for conflicting shifts. In this example, the ER, Clinic and PA are separate sites (they can be printed as separate schedules) that comprise a single location (containing three sites that require coordinated scheduling). Note that in this example the PA site is not a separate physical setting, but shifts that make sense being printed together as a schedule. Please see the 'Printed schedule formats' for samples of printed schedules that would result from a location divided into the sites described here.