The impact of incorporating nurse-specific characteristics in a cyclical scheduling approach

The impact of incorporating nurse-specific characteristics in a cyclical scheduling approach

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Article ID: iaor200971692
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 60
Issue: 12
Start Page Number: 1683
End Page Number: 1698
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: ,
Keywords: scheduling
Abstract:

Nursing staff in various hospitals in Belgium are principally cyclically scheduled. The employed cyclic schedules embody, however, only a weak reflection of the ultimate nurse rosters constructed for a specific month. In this paper, we investigate the benefits of integrating nurse-specific characteristics in the cyclic scheduling approach. Moreover, we analyse to what extent these characteristics should be incorporated and compare this approach with a general and more robust cyclical scheduling approach and the flexible acyclical rostering of nursing personnel.

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