The head nurse is generally responsible for creating work schedules for nurses in a nursing unit. However, since versatile constraints, shift requirements, and leave requests are imposed in the problem, the generated schedule usually incurs complaints or criticisms from nurses on its impartiality. This study investigates a complex real nurse scheduling problem and constructs an optimization mod...

The retention and recruitment of care providers are ongoing concerns in healthcare globally. Examining intention to leave (ITL) as a measure retention, the existing literature has focused on nurses working hospitals, with less attention paid other areas practice. purpose this study was gain better understanding unique factors influencing ITL among three categories home care: registered practica...

This text provides a comprehensive framework for providing culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions. We begin with a synthesis of transcultural theories, models, and research studies. It is our intent to provide transcultural knowledge that can be useful in nursing care. The text actually began in 1989 as a collegial effort by novice trans...

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Nicolas Kieffer, Laurent Poirel, Lucinda J. Bessa, Ana Barbosa-Vasconcelos, Paulo Martins da Costa, Patrice Nordmann “Emerging Antibiotic Resistance” Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; ICBAS, Abel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; CIIMAR, Interdisci...

This paper tackles a Nurse Scheduling Problem which consists of generating work schedules for a set of nurses while considering their shift preferences and other requirements. The objective is to maximize the satisfaction of nurses’ preferences and minimize the violation of soft constraints. This paper presents a new deterministic heuristic algorithm, called MAPA (multi-assignment problem-based...

This study focuses on the home health care routing problem (HHCRP) in scenario of high population density areas where many elders live closely together. considers two main objectives. The first is to reduce travel and wait times for nurses or elders. second concerns socially related objectives scheduling problems, such as ‘quality life’ empowerment, by considering assumptions acquaintanceship m...

Scheduling in primary care is challenging because of the diversity of patient cases (acute versus chronic), mix of appointments (pre-scheduled versus same-day), and uncertain time spent with providers and nonprovider staff (nurses/medical assistants). In this paper, we present an empirically driven stochastic integer programming model that schedules and sequences patient appointments during a w...