The efficient management of nursing personnel is of vital importance in a hospital’s environment comprising a vast share of the hospital’s operational costs. In the nurse scheduling problem (NSP), the target is to allocate shifts to the nurses in order to satisfy the hospital’s demand during the planning horizon by considering different objective functions. This paper presents a multi-objective...

OBJECTIVE 1) To assess work-related quality of life (WRQOL) among medical residents at a university hospital in northeast Thailand. 2) To determine the strength of the association between personal and working condition components and WRQOL among medical residents. MATERIAL AND METHOD A descriptive study was used to describe the WRQOL among medical residents. The study population comprised of ...

O ver the past decade, an emerging body of literature established a link between nurses’ working conditions and their ability to provide safe care. Nurses who are not at their best are both prone to making errors themselves, and less able to serve as effective ‘‘safety nets’’ for their patients, intercepting errors made by physicians and others. Excessive nurse workloads predict an increased ra...

abstract background: while critical care nurses are vulnerable to burnout because of the complex nature of patients’ health problems, working in critical care areas has become even more complicated by shift working schedules. this study aimed to determine the relationship between fixed and rotating shifts and burnout in a sample of critical care nurses working in critical care areas. materials ...

BACKGROUND Twenty-four hour nursing care involves shift work including 12-h shifts. England is unusual in deploying a mix of shift patterns. International evidence on the effects of such shifts is growing. A secondary analysis of data collected in England exploring outcomes with 12-h shifts examined the association between shift length, job satisfaction, scheduling flexibility, care quality, pa...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between stress and sleep quality among nurses who work on different hospital departments during morning, afternoon and night shifts. This study was performed in a hospital in Campinas, Sao Paulo. Data collection was performed using the Bianchi Stress Scale modified (BSSm) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Study participants were...

Previous studies have shown conflicting data as to whether it is possible to sequentially shift spatial attention among visual working memory (VWM) representations. The present study investigated this issue by asynchronously presenting attentional cues during the retention interval of a change detection task. In particular, we focused on two types of sequential attention shifts: (1) orienting a...

Transient spatial attention has been shown to alter different stimulus properties, such as perceived contrast and speed of motion. Interestingly, recent studies seem to suggest that involuntary shifts of spatial attention can also occur on the basis of the contents of Working Memory (WM). According to the biased competition model of visual attention, stimuli in the visual field that match those...