240. Automatized nurse rostering at St. Olav’s Hospital
Invited abstract in session HF-4: Innovation 3, stream Sessions.
Thursday, 15:30-17:00Room: St Olavs, Kunnskapssenteret KA12
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Simen T. Vadseth
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| St. Olavs hospital | |
| 2. | Thomas Bovim
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| St. Olav's Hospital |
Abstract
Nurse rostering is a time consuming process, and nurse leaders typically spend weeks and months preparing a roster for their unit. In St. Olav’s Hospital, there is about 300 nurse rosters assembled each year, representing a massive workload for the leaders. Furthermore, striving to achieve staff satisfaction while respecting the organization’s needs for staffing around the clock is a challenging task when performing the planning. Through an innovation project at St. Olav’s Hospital we have developed and piloted an optimization based tool for automatized nurse rostering. The tool shows promising potentials for generating nurse rosters fast – typically within a day for large units. We will present the fundamentals of the optimization model, revealing how we take into account both the employee and the organizational perspectives to create high quality rosters. We will also report on feedback from the pilot studies performed at the Emergency Department and in the Medical Clinic.
Keywords
- Workforce planning and scheduling
Status: accepted
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