O ver the past decade, an emerging body of literature established a link between nurses’ working conditions and their ability to provide safe care. Nurses who are not at their best are both prone to making errors themselves, and less able to serve as effective ‘‘safety nets’’ for their patients, intercepting errors made by physicians and others. Excessive nurse workloads predict an increased ra...

The majority of nurses surveyed used the library on a regular but limited basis to obtain information needed in caring for or making decisions about their patients. A minority indicated that the libraries in their own institutions totally met their information needs. In fact, only 4% depended on the library to stay abreast of new information and developments in the field. Many of the nurses had...

BackgroundSocial jetlag in nurses is a long-standing challenge for nursing management. It has been attributed to the effects of shift work that disrupts nurses’ circadian rhythms, may be detrimental their health, and can lead rapid turnover.AimWe aimed identify association between social jetlag, affect, depression, quality life early career nurses.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, 201 at th...

Nurse Rostering Problems (NRPs) consist of generating rosters where required shifts are assigned to nurses over a scheduling period satisfying a number of constraints. In [25], we have shown how soft global constraints can be used to model NRPs in a concise and elegant way. In this paper we go one step further by proposing new neighborhood heuristics for VNS/LDS+CP. Experiments show that, despi...

Workforce scheduling has become increasingly important for both the public sector and private companies. Good rosters have many benefits for an organization, such as lower costs, more effective utilization of resources and fairer workloads and distribution of shifts. This paper presents a successful way to roster nurses in an intensive-care unit in a Finnish hospital. The rosters are generated ...

This study deals with an unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem additional resources (UPMR). That is one of the important sub-problems in scheduling. UPMR consists a set jobs on machines. In addition to that, number or more are needed. very and its importance comes from wealth applications; they applicable engineering scientific situations manufacturing systems such as industrial robots,...

UNLABELLED The average age of nurses is projected to be 50 years in 2010 [17]. Because nurses are older, a work injury prevention program should change how nurses lift patients. The purpose of this evidence-based practice improvement project was to examine a new lifting intervention. METHOD An evidence-based process was used to implement an effective lifting intervention, including a back sch...

Nurse rostering is a complex problem which affects the everyday activities and health care tasks in modern hospitals. The Nurse Rostering Problem is a subclass of the personnel scheduling problems, and most of its instances are NP-hard. The goal is to find a quality assignment of shift categories to available nurses. Even though solving the Nurse Rostering Problem has been a field of interest o...

Thromboembolic disorders and their associated long-term complications place a burden on patients, healthcare systems and society. Non-vitamin K antagonist (VKA) oral anticoagulants (OACs), including rivaroxaban, dabigatran, apixaban and edoxaban, are effective for the prevention of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and for the treatment and secondary prevention of venous ...