Nurse Scheduling Using Mathematical Programming

Holmes E. Miller, William P. Pierskalla and Gustave J. Rath
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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

Operations Research, 1976, vol. 24, issue 5, 857-870

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.

Date: 1976
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