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Optimisation nursing employees in a hospital emergency department by using linear programming

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  • Arash Apornak
  • Sadigh Raissi
  • Abbas Keramati
  • Kaveh Khalili-Damghani

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The aim of this research is to determine the nurses' optimal number in the hospital emergency department of Tehran. The research populations are the clients to the hospital emergency department and their nurses in three months of November, December and January of 2018. The data collection tool is a checklist that its validity is confirmed by experts that after observation, time measurement and calculation of patient entry during one day and also the nursing servicing time to all types of emergency patients using from linear and software programming, the number of optimal nurses in the various shift of hospital is determined. Based on the results from the hospital centre of Tehran there is a need for 28 nurses minimally.

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  • Arash Apornak & Sadigh Raissi & Abbas Keramati & Kaveh Khalili-Damghani, 2020. "Optimisation nursing employees in a hospital emergency department by using linear programming," International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(3), pages 184-195.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcph:v:13:y:2020:i:3:p:184-195
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