No: 025-0701 Title: A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Nurse Scheduling in an Operating suite Elham Torabi Department of Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems 534 Carl H. Lindner College of Business University of Cincinnati 2925 Campus Green Dr. Cincinnati OH 45221 [email protected], (513) 288-2546 Gino J. Lim Department of Industrial Engineering University of Houston E211 Eng...

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 explores Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers in a health service region of Western Australia. Reported benefits of home visits include improvement in maternal and child health and better parenting skills leading to positive maternal-child interaction. Despite CCH nurses' support for home visits factors such as costs, lack of resources and st...

Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP) or the Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world and is known to be NP-hard.The problem is to decide which members of a team of nurses should be on duty at any time, during a rostering period of, typically, one month.It is very important to efficiently utilize time and effort, ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate whether rotating shift work increases occupational stress in nurses. METHODS This study measured shift work scheduling and occupational stress by using the Effort-Reward Imbalance model with self-reported questionnaires in a sample of 654 female nurses. RESULTS Overcommitment risk was higher in nurses who worked rotating shifts than in those ...

THIS QUALITATIVE STUDY used a purposive sample of perioperative nurses age 50 or older to describe the experience of being an older perioperative nurse. Three themes were identified from data analysis: growing old in the OR, inter-personal and organizational concerns, and worries about the future. THESE OLDER PERIOPERATIVE NURSES still are challenged and energized by being in the OR, although t...

The internal migration of nurses within Canada has had limited study. This paper reports the results of a survey of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses who had migrated between the provinces and territories in Canada. Factors contributing to internal nurse mobility included seeking full-time work, opportunities for career advancement and flexible scheduling options. Few nurses recei...

The purpose of this study was to explore how educational opportunities may affect nurses' decision to move within Canada. Thematic analysis of qualitative data obtained from 35 registered nurses and 35 licensed practical nurses highlighted educational opportunities available in Canada and how these influence nurses' decision to move across the country for work. The results indicate that Canadia...

The main challenge of Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP)is designing a nurse schedule that satisfies nurses preferences at minimal cost violating the soft constraints. This makes NSP an NP-hard problem with no perfect solution yet. In this study, two meta-heuristics procedures: Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Tabu Search (TS) memory was applied for development automatic hospital scheduling system (GATS_...