Hospitals need to repeatedly produce duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good scheduling of nurses has impact on the quality of health care, the recruitment of nurses, the development of budgets and other nursing functions. The nurse rostering problem (NRP) has been the subject of much study. This paper presents a brief overview, in the form of a bibliographic survey, of the many models and...

Team efforts by nurse educators and nurse administrators resulted in modification of the orientation process to better accommodate part-time nurses. Use of the Performance Base Development System (PBDS) was initiated and scheduling flexibility was introduced as a "Med-Plus" program. Over 30 nurses have had acceptable assessments and became valuable members of the staff. Not all problems involvi...

Scheduling in the drilling operation of the printed circuit board industry deeply annoys the production management staff on the shop floor due to its high complexity of permutations or combination of jobs, machines, and resource constraints. In this research, two multi-objective genetic algorithms are proposed to deal with such a complicated real-world case. Real-world instances are applied as ...

Quality assurance in nuclear medicine refers collectively to all aspects of a nuclear medicine service. It would include patient scheduling, radiopharmaceutical preparation and dispensing, radiation protection of patients, staff and general public, preventive maintenance and the care of instruments, methodology, data interpretation and records keeping, and many other small things which contribu...

As we move from a standards approach to patient care to one based on quality and outcomes, so the need to identify and reassess processes and practices in patient care, is critical. Healthcare organisations need to look at re-evaluating and redesigning staffing and scheduling of the workforce, with a focus on what the evidence now tells us provides the safest practices to support positive outco...

In 2007, total health-care spending in the United States reached US $2.3 trillion, and continues to rise at the fastest rate in US history. The design and implementation of better planning and scheduling systems is an important area to study in order to reduce high costs and improve access to services in the health-care system. Surgery scheduling, in particular, is an area with significant pote...

background and objectives: operating room (or) scheduling is key to optimal operating room productivity. the significant uncertainty associated with surgery duration renders scheduling of surgical operation a challenging task. this paper proposes a novel computational stochastic model to optimize scheduling of surgeries with uncertain durations. the model considers various surgical operation co...

This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It is motivated by BT’s workforce scheduling problem, in which multiple service providers have to serve multiple service buyers. The service providers and buyers all attempt to maximize their own utility. The overall probl...

A s revenues have decreased, health care systems have instituted intensive cost reduction programs, such as the use of pharmaceutical practice guidelines, to attempt to maintain profitability. After implementing such initiatives, some health care systems are having difficulty in further decreasing costs without sacrificing customer (patient) service. The next generation of process improvement e...

Purpose – In this paper the contribution of a global IT service provider's Human Resources Information System (HRIS) to staff retention in emerging markets is discussed. This includes a comparison of the relevant issues and implications. Despite the differences between the developing countries investigated, the author of this paper concludes that a global HRIS is the best solution for minimaliz...