Title :
A simulation model for analyzing the nurse workload in a university hospital ward
Author :
Alessandro Pepino;Adriano Torri;Annunziata Mazzitelli;Oscar Tamburis
Author_Institution :
University of Naples ?Federico II? - Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Technology - D.I.E.T.I., Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples (IT)
Abstract :
The aim of the present work is to propose a prototype simulation of a hospital ward which permits the study of the workload and task distribution among nursing and auxiliary personnel. In our study, we took both X a generic ward in a complex healthcare structure (University Hospital “Federico II” - Naples, Italy) and a case study of a hospital immunology department as reference models. Both analyses were carried out together with a team of expert head nurses and following a specific simulation model developed in the Simul8 environment, which allowed the calculation of patient assistance timing as well as the efficiency of personnel use depending on the patient autonomy.
Conference_Titel :
Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4305
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2015.7408260
