The City of Toronto Long-Term Care Homes and Services (LTCH&S) division is one the largest providers long-term care in Canadian province Ontario, providing to 2,640 residents at 10 homes across Toronto. Our collaboration with LTCH&S was initiated facilitate increasingly challenging task scheduling nursing staff reduce high absenteeism rate observed among part-time nurses. We developed a...

The main goal of health institutions is to provide the services needed by society at desired quality with lowest possible cost. Considering total number employees in institutions, nurse assignment and scheduling have an essential role increasing efficiency improving service due one-to-one interaction nurses patients. This study proposes a model based on nurses’ skill levels incorporated into de...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine oncology nurses awareness of drug interactions. METHODS This descriptive study was conducted with nurses working in the oncology clinics who are a member of Oncology Nursing Association of Turkey. A total of 115 nurses (response rate %20) were responded to the online survey that consists of 28 questions. RESULTS The mean age of the nurses was...

This paper addresses a nurse scheduling problem that is present in hospital. In order to accommodate the rising cost of sustaining and maintaining hospital, there demand analyse manpower by not compromising needs patients. Therefore, this study aims apply mathematical method find optimal number nurses be assigned for duties each day shift An integer linear programming model developed represent ...

In most Japanese hospitals, different nurses handle the pre-assigned nursing cares in different ways, which directly affect the quality of nursing cares. Thus, it is necessary to quantitatively elucidate the nurses' action rules for nursing instruction in high-quality care provision and evaluation of staffing levels. Keeping track of times of relative effectiveness in meeting and connecting wit...

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 qualifie...

BACKGROUND Nurses are essential to the health care delivery system especially to meet the health related millennium development goals. However, despite the significant shortage of nurses in Ethiopia, research in the country regarding nurses' intent to stay in their profession is lacking. This study assessed intent to stay in the nursing profession and associated factors among nurses working in ...

This paper addresses the problem of developing cyclic schedules for nurses while taking into account the quality of individual rosters. In this context, quality is gauged by the absence of certain undesirable shift patterns. The problem is formulated as an integer program (IP) and then decomposed using Lagrangian relaxation. Two approaches were explored, the first based on the relaxation of the...

This paper presents a new methodology to solve the cyclic preference scheduling problem for hourly workers. The focus is on nurse rostering but is applicable to any organization in which the midterm scheduling decision must take into account a complex of legal, institutional, and preferential constraints. The objective is to strike a balance between satisfying individual preferences and minimiz...