An extremely wide range of information can be securely stored on
AvaPA: Personnel and personal information, overall site information
and information for each department, ward, or patient. For ease of
use these are referred to as the record cards for the nurse and
record cards for locations and departments. A "Department" can
easily be a Ward, Booking Office, or an Individual Patient.
Nurse Information
In addition to the traditional First Name, Surname, Initials or
Middle Names Title, Gender, Date of birth and a wide range of
addresses, training, immunisation, work permit and other details.
Default address options are provided and these can be easily
extended by any (Supervisor) User.
Example range of addresses:
- Work Address and Phone Number
- Mobile Number
- Alt Mobile Number
- Email address(s)
- Next of Kin Address
- Reference Address(s)
- Additional or alternate Contact Address(s)

Default employment criteria including training requirements are
provided and these can be easily extended by any (Supervisor) User.
There are reports to give management overviews whereby
criteria are appropriately checked prior to scheduling a Nurse for
a shift. Any criteria can have Start dates, End or Expiry dates,
and Reference numbers such as Pins. Examples are:
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Banking and Payroll Information
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Visa information
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All forms of Employment Certification and Qualifications
- Specialities or Supervising roles
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Immunisations
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Training
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Uniforms
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Work Location preferences (both Nurse and location down to
department level)
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Vehicle Details
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Driving licence details
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Other licence details
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Skill Sets
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Recruitment information
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Employment standards
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Work time directive criteria WTD
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Working time/shift preferences
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Employment contract details
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Start and End dates
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Travel information
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Contingency Information
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Pre Employment Information
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CRB (Criminal Records Bureaux)
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Information

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Notes
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Documents and Mail Merge Templates
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Alarm or Journal Tasks e.g. contact management
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Standing Availability
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Attendance Records (automatically generated)
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Nurses can be grouped into Initial Contact, Pre employment,
Active employment, temporarily unavailable, Archive and Do Not Use
categories.
AvaPA allows searching for Nurses via all names and references
across active and inactive entries. Fuzzy searches allow matching
at the starting letters (auto complete) and the phonetic value of
entered search names.
Secondary Agency Nurses: AvaPA can also track Nurses Employed via
another agency. Full invoicing and
charging calculations are supported for such
subcontracting.
Customer Information
In addition to the traditional company name, departments or
clients can be created within each Company with multiple
addresses. Default Address options are provided and these can be
easily extended by any (Supervisor) User. Examples are:
- Main Address, Phone Number, Fax, Email
- Invoice Address, Phone Number, Fax, Email
- Mobile Number
- Alt Mobile Number
- Additional or alternate Contact Address(s)

Default employment frameworks are provided and these can be
easily extended by a (Supervisor) User.
In the management overview reports the information that can be
stored for each department includes:
Site locations and departments can be grouped into initial
contact, pre employment, active, temporarily unavailable, archive
and do not use categories. AvaPA allows searching for departments
and locations via all names and references across active and
inactive entries. Fuzzy searches allow matching at the starting
letters (auto complete) and the phonetic value of entered search
names.
When searching - individual shifts can be searched by
department reference, AvaPA booking reference, invoice number,
customer or department name and date. Filtering can also be carried
out for the user who created or edited
any booking.