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Nurse Scheduling Using Mathematical Programming

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  • Holmes E. Miller

    (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York)

  • William P. Pierskalla

    (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)

  • Gustave J. Rath

    (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)

Abstract

This paper formulates the nurse-scheduling problem as one of selecting a configuration of nurse schedules that minimize an objective function that balances the trade-off between staffing coverage and schedule preferences of individual nurses, subject to certain feasibility constraints on the nurse schedules. The problem is solved by a cyclic coordinate descent algorithm. We present results pertaining to a six-month application to a particular hospital unit and draw comparisons between the algorithm and hospital-generated schedules.

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  • Holmes E. Miller & William P. Pierskalla & Gustave J. Rath, 1976. "Nurse Scheduling Using Mathematical Programming," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(5), pages 857-870, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:24:y:1976:i:5:p:857-870
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.24.5.857
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