introduction: most of iran’s health budget goes to hospitals as the largest care providing unit in the community. more than 60% of hospital resources are allocated for staffing. one of the problems facing hospitals especially in critical and sensitive parts such as in emergency room is appropriate staffing. this research was designed to investigate and improve nursing staffing and human resourc...

hospital committees play an important role in programming, organization and coordinating hospital activities. this study was conducted to evaluate hospital committees’ situation in kashan educational hospitals.  hospital committees’ meeting reports and face-to-face interview were used to data collection. there were 402 meeting reports with average 7 members attendance at the each meeting.  1292...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

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...