Nurse Scheduling Problem

In order to reduce cost and to optimize the use of resources, hospitals are prompted to regroup facilities and human resources, especially in the surgical suite. This work focuses on nurse scheduling problem in an Albanian public hospital, where the anaesthesiology nurses constitute one of the most shared resources. They work in a cross way over surgical specialities and assume various activities. The assignment of working shifts to nurses over a period of several days is a difficult and time-consuming task, which is usually handled manually by the head nurses. The principle of sharing resources within larger surgical suite, in order to reduce the costs, makes more complex the nurses scheduling problem. This reinforces the need of computer-aided tools for this particularly complicated task. It will be computed by Lingo Modeling Language and Optimizer [1]