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 ...

BACKGROUND This pragmatic randomised, controlled trial investigated annual review of patients with sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS). Clinical outcomes and costs were compared for consultant clinic review versus specialist nurse home visit. METHOD One hundred and seventy-four patients were randomised to annual review by consultant clinic appointment or by specialist nurse home visit. SAHS ...

Nurse scheduling is a topic widely studied due to its overall effect on patient care and hospital performance. This research focuses formulating Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) workforce model as nurse rostering problem. The incorporates multiple objectives of individual preference qualification. approached by categorizing nurses into different hierarchical levels based their qualifications pos...

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...

This paper describes a decision support methodologies for nurse rostering problem in a modern hospital environment. In particular, it is very important to efficiently utilise time and effort, to evenly balance the workload among people and to attempt to satisfy personnel preference. We presented a complete model to formulate all the complex real-world constraints, solution approach and Hybrid a...

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem widely tackled in the literature. Recently, a new variant of this problem was proposed, called nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction (NSPBPS). This paper further investigates this variant of the NSP as we propose a new algorithm to solve the problem and obtain a better balance of overall preferen...

BACKGROUND Recently, primary care in the United Kingdom has undergone substantial changes in skill mix. Non-medical prescribing was introduced to improve patient access to medicines, make better use of different health practitioners' skills and increase patient choice. There is little evidence about value-based patient preferences for 'prescribing nurse' in a general practice setting. OBJECTI...

Hospital wards must be staffed 24 hours a day by a limited number of nurses. With a well documented shortage of nurses in many countries, effective rostering of nurse shifts is crucial. Recent research on nurse rostering has focused on creating flexible rosters that are attractive to nurses, with the joint aims of improving the quality of care and increasing staff retention. To achieve this, so...

One of the challenges of the nurse scheduling problems (NSPs) is the great number of constraints, and another challenge is that psychological preference of chief nurse is usually difficult to clearly define. Typically, solutions to conquer the first challenge rely on operational research (OR) methods, and the objective functions are constructed manually to conquer the second challenge. However,...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a nurse rostering system using a redundant modeling approach. Nurse rostering is defined as a process of generating timetables for specifying the work shifts of nurses over a given period of time. This process is difficult because the human roster planner has to ensure that every rostering decision made complies with a mixture of hard hospit...