Incremental changes in the workforce to accommodate changes in demand.

Health Care Management Science
Jonathan F Bard, Hadi W Purnomo

Abstract

In many service organizations, rosters must be constructed weekly or monthly as demand and available personnel change. Once the permanent workforce is fixed, it may not be possible to alter its composition easily, implying that expensive contract labor may be the only option to cover shortages. With respect to nursing resources, this means calling in part-timers, casuals, or agency nurses on a daily basis, or hiring travelers for up to several months at a time. This paper addresses the latter option and presents two models that can be used to solve what we call the nurse addition problem. The first was originally developed to solve the midterm preference scheduling problem and is based on a pattern-view formulation. The second is derived from a shift-view formulation and is solved with a branch-and-price algorithm. In either case, the objective is to hire up to some predetermined number of nurses and assign them midterm schedules that minimize the maximum amount of uncovered shifts per day in the planning horizon. Each roster selected for a new nurse must satisfy a set of hard constraints related to the total working hours, workstretches, time between shifts, and weekend requirements, and a set of soft constraints related

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Jul 25, 2000·Health Care Management Science·H BeaulieuP Michelon
Oct 22, 2002·JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association·Edward O'Neil, Jean Ann Seago
Dec 29, 2005·Health Care Management Science·Jonathan F Bard, Hadi W Purnomo

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Jun 27, 2009·Annals of Emergency Medicine·Marian J VermeulenMichael J Schull
Jul 22, 2018·Health Care Management Science·Tristan BeckerBrigitte Werners

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