• SOLUTION OF NURSE SCHEDULING PROBLEM IN HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING

Abstract

Hospital’s key primary mission is to ensure continuous ward care service with appropriate number of nursing staffs and theright mix of nursing skills. The planning and scheduling is done to avoid additional non essential cost for hospital. Nurses’ preferencesare taken into considerations such as the number of night shift and consecutive rest days. To present a mathematical modelling technique by means of linear programming as an efficient tool to solve problems related to optimization in healthcare. Hospital must bestaffed 24 hours a day by a limited number of nurses. This paper illustrates how a linear programming solves the nurses schedulingproblems. This paper illustrates how linear programming has been effectively used in Nurses scheduling at a multi-specialty Hospital in Bhopal