Nurse-Centric Scheduling in Home Care
PhD candidate: Asal Karimpour
Nurses play a crucial role in the home care sector by delivering care to clients. Dissatisfaction among nurses can lead to higher turnover rates, staff shortages, and increased workloads for the remaining staff. This also raises operational costs for providers, such as expenses for training new nurses and losing clients. Planners face various challenges in decision-making which require a thorough investigation of all aspects of the problem to enhance nurses’ job satisfaction and reduce turnover. This aligns with the main focus of our research: sustainable planning for home care organizations to avoid nurse turnover and ensure operational efficiency. In this research path, we will focus on the importance of more precise planning for nurses through scheduling and routing schemes to help them achieve a better work-life balance and attain greater job satisfaction. Additionally, our efforts will aim to improve the economic and operational performance of home care agencies. In this project, we also use operations research tools for mathematical modeling and solution methods.
