ED Nurse Location Assignment Tool | LKS-CHART

Nurse assignment is a daily task at the St. Michael's Hospital emergency department (ED). The task involves assigning scheduled nurses to work in various roles and locations within the ED. The objective of the task is to minimize the number of times that any individual nurse is repeatedly assigned to the same role or location within the same series of shifts, while ensuring that each role or location is assigned the number of personnel required, and each nurse is only assigned to roles or locations that they are qualified to fill. Repeat assignments are considered undesirable because nurses generally prefer variety in their assignments, and repetitions can be demoralizing as a result. Nurse assignment in the ED has traditionally been a manual task and is labour-intensive; on average, it took 1 to 1.5 hours to generate assignments for one day.

Nurse assignment is a daily task at the St. Michael's Hospital emergency department (ED). The task involves assigning scheduled nurses to work in various roles and locations within the ED. The objective of the task is to minimize the number of times that any individual nurse is repeatedly assigned to the same role or location within the same series of shifts, while ensuring that each role or location is assigned the number of personnel required, and each nurse is only assigned to roles or locations that they are qualified to fill. Repeat assignments are considered undesirable because nurses ge