This paper examines issues in building decision support models for budgeting nursing workforce requirements in a hospital. We determine regular-time, overtime, and agency workforce levels for various skill classes in a budget cycle. We introduce a family of eight models ranging from a...

The Dynamic Programming algorithm proposed by Rosenblatt and Kaspi (Rosenblatt, M. J., M. Kaspi. 1985. A dynamic programming algorithm for joint replenishment under general order cost functions. Management Sci. 31(March) 369--373.) for an optimum partition problem is shown to be incorrect. An...