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...

-Solving the nurse scheduling problem properly has a great impact on nurses' working conditions which are strongly related to the level of quality of health care and recruiting of qualified personnel. In this paper, a multi-objective approach is shown to be a very flexible tool for modeling this problem. Hence, it could be used in several specific contexts. Three different solution techniques a...

A deficiency of the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) beds or nurses may cause delays in operating rooms (ORs) and increase number cancellations. Some disruptions like COVID-19 pandemic this deficiency. This paper investigates two integrated OR PACU scheduling problems; one with few beds, other nurses. For each problem, a mathematical model matheuristic are proposed for minimising To best our kno...

This paper proposes effective genetic operators for cooperative genetic algorithm (GA) to solve a nurse scheduling problem. A clinical director of a medical department makes a duty schedule of all nurses of the department every month. Such the scheduling is very complex task. It takes one or two weeks to create the nurse schedule even by a veteran director. In conventional ways using the cooper...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES to describe current survivorship care from the perspectives of oncology nurses. DESIGN descriptive. SETTING e-mail invitation to Web-based survey. SAMPLE 399 Oncology Nursing Society members providing care for patients initially treated more than one year previously. METHODS an online survey was used to evaluate current aspects of survivorship care. MAIN RESEARCH VA...

BACKGROUND The dramatic increase in need for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) intravitreal therapy in the treatment of retinal disease and the absence of an equivalent increase in ophthalmologists to undertake such intravitreal injections created a patient-safety risk. Timing of intravitreal therapy (IVT) is critical to prevent vision loss and local clinics lacked capacity to...

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...

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...