Scheduling Nurse Shifts Using Goal Programming Based on Nurse Preferences: A Case Study in an Emergency Department

A two-stage heuristic approach for nurse scheduling problem: A case study in an emergency department

A 0-1 goal programming model for nurse scheduling

In this study, a computerized nurse-scheduling model is developed. The model is approached through a 0-1 linear goal program. It is adapted to Riyadh Al-Kharj hospital Program (in Saudi Arabia) to improve the current manual-made schedules. The developed model accounts both for hospital objectives and nurses’ preferences, in addition to considering some recommended policies that are displayed in...

A Simulation-Based Approach for Optimal Nurse Scheduling in an Emergency Department

The purpose of this study was to determine an effective nurse schedule for the Emergency Department (ED) of York Hospital (York, PA). The goal was to minimize the patients’ average waiting time, subject to various requirements from the hospital and the nurses. An ARENA simulation model was built to model the ED’s current staffing plan and to evaluate alternative schedules proposed by a custom-b...

Nurse rostering using fuzzy logic: A case study

In this paper, we used the fuzzy set theory for modeling flexible constraints and uncertain data in nurse scheduling problems and proposed a fuzzy linear model for nurse rostering problems. The developed model can produce rosters that satisfy hospital objectives, ward requirements and staff preferences by satisfying their requests as much as possible. Fuzzy sets are used for modeling demands of...

Nurse Scheduling using Constraint Logic Programming

The nurse scheduling problem consists of assigning working shifts to each nurse on each day of a certain period of time. A typical problem comprises 600 to 800 assignments that have to take into account several requirements such as minimal allocation of a station, legal regulations and wishes of the personnel. This planning is a di cult and time-consuming expert task and is still done manually....

Maximizing the nurses’ preferences in nurse scheduling problem: mathematical modeling and a meta-heuristic algorithm

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) has received a great amount of attention in recent years. In the NSP, the goal is to assign shifts to the nurses in order to satisfy the hospital’s demand during the planning horizon by considering different objective functions. In this research, we focus on maximizing the nurses’ preferences for working shifts and weekends off by considering several important...