This paper addresses a nurse scheduling problem that is present in hospital. In order to accommodate the rising cost of sustaining and maintaining hospital, there demand analyse manpower by not compromising needs patients. Therefore, this study aims apply mathematical method find optimal number nurses be assigned for duties each day shift An integer linear programming model developed represent ...

Challenged by rising costs, higher registered nurse vacancy rates and declining staff morale, a Nursing Productivity Committee was formed to analyze productive and nonproductive hours and seek improvements in our staffing models and scheduling processes. The changes implemented led to lower nurse to patient ratios, better control of labor costs, elimination of agency staff, greater staff satisf...

Nurse scheduling is a complex scheduling problem and involves generating a schedule for each nurse that consists of shift duties and days off within a short-term planning period. In real world applications, multiple sources of uncertainties are needed to be treated in providing higher quality schedules. This paper presents a seminal research on the application of fuzzy set theory to the nurse s...

Nurse rostering problems represent a subclass of scheduling problems that are hard to solve. The goal is finding high quality shift and resource assignments, satisfying the needs and requirements of employees as well as the employers in healthcare institutions. In this paper, a real case of a nurse rostering problem is introduced. Memetic Algorithms utilizing different type of promising genetic...

Team efforts by nurse educators and nurse administrators resulted in modification of the orientation process to better accommodate part-time nurses. Use of the Performance Base Development System (PBDS) was initiated and scheduling flexibility was introduced as a "Med-Plus" program. Over 30 nurses have had acceptable assessments and became valuable members of the staff. Not all problems involvi...

This paper describes a decision support methodologies for nurse rostering problem in a modern hospital environment. In particular, it is very important to efficiently utilise time and effort, to evenly balance the workload among people and to attempt to satisfy personnel preference. We presented a complete model to formulate all the complex real-world constraints, solution approach and Hybrid a...

The aim of this special issue of Queueing Systems is to highlight the role of queueing theory in sustaining and improving the quality of care in our health care system. On one hand, it aims at showing the possible impact of queueing theory on optimisation in health care. On the other hand, it aims at drawing health care to the attention of queueing theorists to further increase the number of co...

The nurse rostering problem consists in generating a configuration of daily schedules for a set of nurses satisfying a set of constraints. The problem is known to be computationally challenging as it must consider different requirements such as minimal area or floor allocations, different skills, working regulations, as well as personnel wishes. The literature presents several successful work d...