A study on nurse day-off scheduling under the consideration of binary preference

For most hospitals in Taiwan, the works of nurse shift and day-off scheduling were made by hand. It would spend several hours and could not consider various constraints very well. The scheduling problem usually puzzles the leader of nurses. Thus, the purpose of this study was to construct two mathematical models that increase the efficiency of nurse shift and day-off scheduling and then improves the quality of nursing and leisure life of nurse. We cite Hsia’s model (2009) to find out an optimal shift scheduling table and then established a day-off scheduling model to search for an optimal day-off scheduling assignment. Through this way, this paper can integrate the nurse shift and day-off scheduling models to create the optimal results. They can also improve the qualities of nurse shift and day-off scheduling tasks and save the time tremendously.