Nurse · House Supervisor · Systems thinker
I'm Kal McManus—a critical care nurse and House Supervisor building practical digital tools for clinical operations, compliance, education, and patient safety.
Interactive portfolio
07 connected solutionsLeadership rounding
Leadership rounds can be inconsistent, patient concerns may not reach the right owner, and communication behaviors are difficult to measure across roles and shifts.
How it responds — Connects leadership presence, role-based AIDET behaviors, and HCAHPS insight in one repeatable rounding workflow.
Clinical scheduling
Fragmented schedules and outdated contact lists can delay staff from identifying who is covering a service when a timely clinical response is needed.
How it responds — Creates a shared operational picture for hospitalist, CT, laboratory, and respiratory therapy on-call coverage.
Attendance fairness
Attendance exceptions, staffing adjustments, and protected leave decisions can become inconsistent when they are managed through separate spreadsheets and informal conversations.
How it responds — Makes attendance exceptions, staffing adjustments, FMLA cases, and counseling thresholds visible and consistently applied.
Compliance command center
Paper logs and disconnected readiness checks make exceptions easy to miss, evidence difficult to retrieve, and survey preparation unnecessarily reactive.
How it responds — Unifies environmental monitoring, scheduled collections, exception follow-up, survey evidence, and crash-cart expiration intelligence.
Employee compliance
Immunizations, screenings, credentials, and exposure follow-up are often tracked in separate files, increasing the risk of missed expirations and incomplete survey evidence.
How it responds — Connects health requirements, expirations, exposure follow-up, and survey evidence using fictional demonstration records.
Clinical inventory
Manual supply counts and disconnected order lists make shortages difficult to anticipate, create avoidable rework, and reduce confidence that essential items are available when needed.
How it responds — Connects room-level counts, par thresholds, order recommendations, receiving, and usage trends in one mobile-ready workflow using fictional demonstration data.
Employee health management
Immunizations, fit testing, surveillance, exposures, work restrictions, and leave cases become difficult to coordinate when records and compliance rules live in disconnected systems.
How it responds — Brings employee health records, compliance requirements, clinical surveillance, exposure management, reports, and leadership visibility into one evaluation-ready workspace using simulated data.
Systems perspective
Bedside insight“When I approach a problem, I see it as a system—not an isolated event.”
My role requires me to see beyond a single task, unit, or shift and understand how people, processes, technology, policy, and patient safety connect across the hospital. I anticipate how a solution may affect downstream workflows, staff behavior, communication, compliance, and patient outcomes before it is implemented.
That whole-system perspective shapes every tool I build.