4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Applied Sciences and Engineering:
Title:
A Priority Based Nurse Scheduling Algorithm for
Continuous Remote Patient Monitoring
Authors:
Paramita Sarkar, Uma Bhattacharya, Rituparna Chaki,
Ditipriya Sinha
Abstract: A
priority based nurse scheduling algorithm has been
proposed in this paper to support continuous care of
remote patients in a pervasive environment. The proposed
algorithms are designed to build shift patterns and
assign prioritized patients to proper graded nursed by
considering the constraints of the schedule in reduced
time. For a nurse scheduling problem in a dynamic
pervasive environment, the challenge lies in the demand
cost and the proper assignment of the nurses according
to the health risks of patients and the grades of the
nurses. This paper attempts to design an integer
programming model which will be used to formulate shift
patterns of the nurse scheduling problem. To manage the
overwhelming real-time health data, the proposed system
attempts to make decision based on priority among groups
of related features in a dynamic environment. The
proposed nurse scheduling algorithm has been implemented
on the real-life data of one week schedule of nurses
(EEDF Hospital, Kolkata, India). The Experimental
results (Turbo C) generates the feasible shift patterns
in minimum computation time.
Keywords: Pervasive,
Priority, Grade, Nurse Scheduling, Dynamicity, Remote
Patient, Cost, Objective Function
Pages:
046-053