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Perinatal Nurses: Key to Increasing African American Breast-Feeding Rates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Breast milk is the ideal source of nutrition for infants for at least the first 6 months of life. Despite women in the United States reaching national objectives for breast-feeding initiation (75%), racial disparities persist.
Robinson, Karen Marie
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A hybrid predictive and prescriptive modelling framework for long-term mental healthcare workforce planning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Over the past decade, there has been a severe staffing shortage in mental healthcare, exacerbated by increased demand for mental health services due to COVID-19. This demand is projected to increase over the next decade or so, necessitating proactive workforce planning to ensure sufficient staffing for ongoing service delivery.
arxiv  

A Greedy Double Swap Heuristic for Nurse Scheduling [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
One of the key challenges of nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is the number of constraints placed on preparing the timetable, both from the regulatory requirements as well as the patients' demand for the appropriate nursing care specialists. In addition, the preferences of the nursing staffs related to their work schedules add another dimension of ...
arxiv  

Meeting spiritual needs of the hospitalized patient [PDF]

open access: yes, 1963
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston ...
Galvin, Shirley
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A Flexible Mixed Integer Programming framework for Nurse Scheduling [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
In this paper, a nurse-scheduling model is developed using mixed integer programming model. It is deployed to a general care ward to replace and automate the current manual approach for scheduling. The developed model differs from other similar studies in that it optimizes both hospitals requirement as well as nurse preferences by allowing flexibility ...
arxiv  

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