How to implement AI-based rostering to ease the administrative burden on nurse managers

Rationale and key pointsNurse managers spend a significant amount of their working day on administrative duties, notably rostering, which can leave them with little time to engage with their teams. The use of artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) rostering platforms, combined with flexible staffing schedules, can reduce the administrative burden on nurse managers and provide more flexibility for staff.• Operational responsibilities, including rostering and resource coordination, tend to dominate nurse managers’ daily workload.• Accommodating nurses’ needs for a good work-life balance requires rostering flexibility, transparency and choice, which traditional methods such as manual rostering sometimes fail to provide.• AI-based rostering platforms can help generate optimised staffing schedules that balance organisational needs with nurses’ expectations regarding their working patterns.• AI-based rostering combined with flexible staffing schedules can significantly and sustainably reduce the administrative burden on nurse managers.Reflective activity‘How to’ articles can help to update your practice and ensure it remains evidence based. Apply this article to your practice. Reflect on and write a short account of:• How this article might enhance your understanding of how AI-based rostering can help reduce nurse managers’ administrative workload and meet nurses’ expectations regarding their working patterns.• How you could use this information to educate your colleagues on the implementation of AI-based rostering and flexible staffing schedules.