Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cyclical Scheduling
Exploring nurse scheduling with cyclical scheduling methods
Abstract
The main focus of this paper is to explore the use of cyclical scheduling methods in nurse scheduling through literature review. Cyclical scheduling can be effectively used to schedule work shifts in hospitals and other situations in terms of time saving because computer software and mathematical programming is not needed. Additionally, scheduling is one of the main topics in this course, and as a result, this practice will facilitate the understanding of scheduling processes. As an example, a cyclical method is used to cover a 7-week, three work shifts (day, evening, night) schedule …show more content…
A hospital needs to increase its number of staff to guarantee its service, and control its budget at the same time. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment projections for 2010-2020, the number of employed nurses is projected to grow to 712,000, or a 26% increase. Staffing and scheduling are time-consuming and frustrating tasks, and thus we have several methods such as centralized scheduling, unit scheduling, and self-scheduling. These methods all have their own distinct advantages and disadvantages, but we will focus on cyclical …show more content…
The staffing requirements for weekends had also been reduced to meet the personnel constraints.
(3) Determine each RN must cover the number of each evening-shifts each week. In this case, RN must work on 3 weekdays (Monday through Friday) and 2 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) of evening shift each week during each 6-week period. This makes a total of 19 evening-shifts, which fulfills our original 2/3rd-of-all-shifts constraint.
(4) Begin the schedule by scheduling only one nurse of her 12 days off for the 6-week period. Then use ‘X’ to sign the specific days off. (See Table 1)
(5) Schedule the evening-shifts by using the calculation from Step 2 as a reference. (See Table 2) There is 11 Day shifts (42 Days-12 Days off-19 off-shifts = 11 Day shifts) remain to be scheduled. (See Table 3)
After completing the first nurse 's schedule, RN 2’s schedule can be started a week later than RN 1, and then RN 3’s follows RN 2 's. Similar, the day-night nurses with a 5-week schedule could also be done by this
Abstract
The main focus of this paper is to explore the use of cyclical scheduling methods in nurse scheduling through literature review. Cyclical scheduling can be effectively used to schedule work shifts in hospitals and other situations in terms of time saving because computer software and mathematical programming is not needed. Additionally, scheduling is one of the main topics in this course, and as a result, this practice will facilitate the understanding of scheduling processes. As an example, a cyclical method is used to cover a 7-week, three work shifts (day, evening, night) schedule …show more content…
A hospital needs to increase its number of staff to guarantee its service, and control its budget at the same time. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment projections for 2010-2020, the number of employed nurses is projected to grow to 712,000, or a 26% increase. Staffing and scheduling are time-consuming and frustrating tasks, and thus we have several methods such as centralized scheduling, unit scheduling, and self-scheduling. These methods all have their own distinct advantages and disadvantages, but we will focus on cyclical …show more content…
The staffing requirements for weekends had also been reduced to meet the personnel constraints.
(3) Determine each RN must cover the number of each evening-shifts each week. In this case, RN must work on 3 weekdays (Monday through Friday) and 2 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) of evening shift each week during each 6-week period. This makes a total of 19 evening-shifts, which fulfills our original 2/3rd-of-all-shifts constraint.
(4) Begin the schedule by scheduling only one nurse of her 12 days off for the 6-week period. Then use ‘X’ to sign the specific days off. (See Table 1)
(5) Schedule the evening-shifts by using the calculation from Step 2 as a reference. (See Table 2) There is 11 Day shifts (42 Days-12 Days off-19 off-shifts = 11 Day shifts) remain to be scheduled. (See Table 3)
After completing the first nurse 's schedule, RN 2’s schedule can be started a week later than RN 1, and then RN 3’s follows RN 2 's. Similar, the day-night nurses with a 5-week schedule could also be done by this