Guides · Free to read
Guides for the people who build the rota
These are long-form guides to the scheduling questions that come before any software does: how self-scheduling on a nursing unit works, and where it breaks once the good shifts run out; how a named rotation such as Pitman actually cycles across four teams; and what it takes to start and schedule a mobile phlebotomy business.
Why does a scheduling product publish guides?
Because most of these questions have the same answer with or without software, and a straight answer is more useful than a pitch.
Each guide answers one question fully: what the practice is, where it tends to break, and what a unit or a small business actually does about it. They are written for the person who builds the rota or runs the business, and none of them asks for an email address before you can read it.
Some of the arithmetic they describe is done elsewhere on this site. The free tools generate rotations and compute staffing from a census in your browser, and MedAligna itself checks credentials, rest and hours before a shift can be saved. The guides do not assume you use either.
When the guide becomes the rota
MedAligna checks credentials, rest, ratios and overtime before an assignment can be saved — in the browser as you drag, and again in the database before the write lands. Fourteen days free, no card.