Hospitals need to repeatedly produce duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good scheduling of nurses has impact on the quality of health care, the recruitment of nurses, the development of budgets and other nursing functions. The nurse rostering problem (NRP) has been the subject of much study. This paper presents a brief overview, in the form of a bibliographic survey, of the many models and...

The efficient management of nursing personnel is of vital importance in a hospital’s environment comprising a vast share of the hospital’s operational costs. In the nurse scheduling problem (NSP), the target is to allocate shifts to the nurses in order to satisfy the hospital’s demand during the planning horizon by considering different objective functions. This paper presents a multi-objective...

The work environment is one of the significant factors causing work-related stress. Supervising stress crucial as it associated with arousal diseases, low productivity, and occupational calamities. This article aims to explore concept its determinant in nursing understand this phenomenon. We used qualitative research methodology examine antecedents among nurses public sector hospitals. Ten semi...

background and objectives: in this paper, a real life nurse scheduling model is described based on the conditions in iranian hospitals such as monthly shift rotation, consecutive morning and evening shifts and consecutive evening and night shift.   methods: the developed model considers both hospital constraints and nurses’ preferences. hospital constraints include assigning adequate qualified ...

Hyperheuristics can be defined to be heuristics which choose between heuristics in order to solve a given optimisation problem. A number of hyperheuristics have been developed over the past few years. Here we propose a new hyperheuristic framework within which heuristics compete against one another. The rules for competition are motivated by the principles of reinforcement learning. We analyse ...

The paper "Working in Canada or the United States: Perceptions of Canadian Nurses Living in a Border Community" by Cameron, Armstrong-Stassen, Rajacich and Freeman sheds new light on the recruitment and retention factors that influence the reasons nurses select certain work environments. In a border city where Canadian nurses have a choice between working in the United States or Canada, the res...

This paper tackles the nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction which consists of generating an assignment of shifts to nurses over a given time horizon and ensuring that the satisfaction of nurses’ personal preferences for shifts is as even as possible in order to ensure fairness. We propose a heuristic algorithm based on successive resolutions of the bottleneck assignmen...

Medical treatments planning and surgical operations scheduling are substantial elements of hospital management. Operations theatre scheduling deals with assignment of limited hospital resources (rooms, doctors, nurses, etc.) to jobs (patient treatments, surgery, etc.) over the time in order to perform tasks according to their needs and priorities, and to optimize usage of hospital resources [7]...

Extended work shifts of twelve hours or longer are common and even popular with hospital staff nurses, but little is known about how such extended hours affect the care that patients receive or the well-being of nurses. Survey data from nurses in four states showed that more than 80 percent of the nurses were satisfied with scheduling practices at their hospital. However, as the proportion of h...