2290. A VRP approach to schedule nursing care professionals to training positions in practical education during their apprenticeship
Invited abstract in session FA-12: Scheduling in Healthcare II, stream Health Care Management.
Friday, 8:45-10:15Room: H10
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Corinna Oppitz
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| University of Augsburg | |
| 2. | Sebastian Kraul
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| Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | |
| 3. | Jens Brunner
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| Department of Technology, Management, and Economics, Technical University of Denmark |
Abstract
Due to the demographic change, the need for medical care and care in general will rise in Germany. On the other hand, the gap between the demand and the supply of health care professionals is predicted to increase. This underlines the importance of making the care professions more attractive, especially for future trainees. To address these challenges, the vocational educations for nurses, paediatric nurses and geriatric nurses were reformed and are currently joined in one generalist vocational education. This vocational education covers nursing care for people of all ages in various fields of care. Although this makes the planning of practical education challenging, as institutions of various fields of care and their capacities need to be respected, it is frequently done manually. We develop a model to generate a schedule, which assigns trainees to training positions in the different fields of care as stated in the training and examination regulations. In order to use and determine the capacities of the involved institutions as best as possible, the objective is to minimize the number of training positions needed. We model the problem as a heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with time windows. Due to the complexity and the size of the problem, a tailored column generation approach is developed. We discuss our model and present preliminary computational results on artificially generated data.
Keywords
- Health Care
Status: accepted
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