AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine if Jordanian nurses' job stressors are different in various practice areas in hospitals, particularly in stressful or non-stressful clinical areas of work. BACKGROUND Nursing is a stressful profession. Nurses' job stressors have been studied in Jordan, but none compared job stressors in different clinical areas. There is a need to identify nurses' job stressors ...

Aim This article describes the development and testing of an Excel-based scheduling solution for the flexible allocation and reallocation of nurses to cover sudden, unplanned absences among permanent nursing staff. Method A quasi-experimental, one group, pre- and post-test study design was used ( Box 1 ) with total sampling. Participants (n=17) were selected purposefully by including all ward m...

To the best of our knowledge, this paper describes the first ant colony optimization (ACO) approach applied to nurse scheduling, analyzing a dynamic regional problem which is currently under discussion at the Vienna hospital compound. Each day, pool nurses have to be assigned for the following days to public hospitals while taking into account a variety of soft and hard constraints regarding wo...

<p>Complex problems that usually occur in every hospital, one of which is scheduling with so many aspects, for example: the number nurses, distribution nurse shifts, time off or leave and others. With manual method still used compiling nurse's work schedule, it makes difficult an irregular regular schedule. In solving problem, graph coloring can be used. This problem solved by coloring. O...

This paper constructs a two-stage mathematical programming model to solve the nurse scheduling problem in order to assign nurses to shifts over a scheduling period so that certain constraints (organizational and personal) are satisfied. In the first stage, the nurse optimal vacation schedules are solved by a self-schedule programming that can check for any violation of government regulations, h...

The oncology clinics use different nursing care delivery models to provide chemotherapy treatment to cancer patients. Functional and primary care delivery models are the most commonly used methods in the clinics. In functional care delivery model, patients are scheduled for a chemotherapy appointment without considering availabilities of individual nurses, and nurses are assigned to patients ac...

The home care nurses routing and scheduling problem consists in determining the sequences of visits performed by home care nurses to patients. Very often public medical clinics are responsible for this planning. The problem shows similarities with the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) but it also includes additional constraints related to medical restrictions and to the continui...

In this article we present an approach designed to solve a real world problem: the Anesthesiology Nurse Scheduling Problem (ANSP) at a public French hospital. The anesthesiology nurses are one of the most shared resources in the hospital and we attempt to find a fair/balanced schedule for them, taking into account a set of constraints and the nurses’ stated preferences, concerning the different...