TY - GEN
T1 - A goal programming model for nurse scheduling at emergency department
AU - Al-Hinai, Nasr
AU - Al-Yazidy, Noor
AU - Al-Hooti, Anfal
AU - Al-Shereiqi, Ekhlas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IEOM Society International.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The nurse scheduling problem is among the most widely studied problem in literature. Nurse scheduling is concerned about allocating nurses to conduct specific tasks. The various objectives and constraints of this problem that changes from country to country and from hospital to hospital makes it very hard to solve. Furthermore, lack of resources makes this scheduling task very challenging. Many hospitals are still executing nurses scheduling manually, which is indeed a cumbersome and time consuming task. This, however, may lead to high chances and risks of not fulfilling all rules set by the hospital. Therefore, this article presents a goal programming framework model to scheduling nurses working at the emergency department with the objective to increase fairness in shifts distribution. The experimental results highlights the importance of developing heuristic or meta-heuristic approaches to solve such NP-hard problem.
AB - The nurse scheduling problem is among the most widely studied problem in literature. Nurse scheduling is concerned about allocating nurses to conduct specific tasks. The various objectives and constraints of this problem that changes from country to country and from hospital to hospital makes it very hard to solve. Furthermore, lack of resources makes this scheduling task very challenging. Many hospitals are still executing nurses scheduling manually, which is indeed a cumbersome and time consuming task. This, however, may lead to high chances and risks of not fulfilling all rules set by the hospital. Therefore, this article presents a goal programming framework model to scheduling nurses working at the emergency department with the objective to increase fairness in shifts distribution. The experimental results highlights the importance of developing heuristic or meta-heuristic approaches to solve such NP-hard problem.
KW - Emergency Department
KW - Goal Programming
KW - Multi-objective Optimization
KW - Nurse Scheduling Problem
KW - Scheduling Fairness
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051485084
SN - 9781532359446
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
SP - 99
EP - 103
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018
PB - IEOM Society
T2 - 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2018
Y2 - 6 March 2018 through 8 March 2018
ER -