This paper studies a multi-criteria optimization problem which appears in the context of booking chemotherapy appointments. The main feature of the model under study is the requirement to book for each patient multiple appointments which should follow a pre-speci ed multi-day pattern. Each appointment involves several nurse activities which should also follow a pre-speci ed intra-day pattern. T...

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...

Previous studies have shown that missed nursing care is a significant problem in acute care hospitals. Other studies have demonstrated that teamwork is a critical element in assuring patient safety and quality of care. The purpose of this study was to determine if the level of nursing teamwork impacts the extent and nature of missed nursing care. A sample of 2 216 nursing staff members on 50 ac...

One of the challenges of the nurse scheduling problems (NSPs) is the great number of constraints, and another challenge is that psychological preference of chief nurse is usually difficult to clearly define. Typically, solutions to conquer the first challenge rely on operational research (OR) methods, and the objective functions are constructed manually to conquer the second challenge. However,...

A shift work schedule is extremely important to obtain the optimum result of allocation since it involves 24 hours continuous services. Every nurse could not avoid their services are very towards patients in hospital. The major objective study propose a cyclical scheduling Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Shah Alam hospital using Goal Programming. It help head spend less effort on building new sched...

BACKGROUND Twenty-four hour nursing care involves shift work including 12-h shifts. England is unusual in deploying a mix of shift patterns. International evidence on the effects of such shifts is growing. A secondary analysis of data collected in England exploring outcomes with 12-h shifts examined the association between shift length, job satisfaction, scheduling flexibility, care quality, pa...