Higher acuity levels in COVID-19 patients and increased infection prevention and control
routines have increased the work demands on nurses. To understand and quantify these …

Variations in clinical practice are common. However, some variations may cause undesired
consequences. Careful consideration of their causes and effects is necessary to assure the …

Nursing is a high musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk job with high workload demands. This
study combines Digital Human Modelling (DHM) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to …

Background Nurses play a critical role in delivering healthcare services, and their perception
of the quality of those services is critical to better patient care. This study aimed to capture …

Abstract This study uses Digital Human Modelling (DHM) and Discrete Event Simulation
(DES) to examine how caring for COVID-19-positive (C+) patients affects nurses' workload …

Patient-bed assignments with greater distances between patient beds lead to increased
nurse workload and decreased care quality. Quantifying this effect is a challenge. A nurse …

The intra-hospital transfer of critically ill patients are associated with complications at up to
70%. Numerous issues can be avoided with optimal pre-transport planning and …

The aim of this paper is to enhance readers' understanding of research design strategies,
past and present, for studying nursing workloads. Future research directions are also …

We consider the problem of system-level balanced scheduling in a pediatric hospital setting.
A hospital clinic has a queue for patients needing care. After being seen in clinic, many …

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate ways in which healthcare organisations can
successfully maintain operational resilience within intricate and varied engagements during …