2015 Volume 25 Issue 2 Pages 186-193
The present authors have studied a simulation to estimate the necessary working hours for nurses’work in a hospital ward, and have published papers about the studies. The authors described the features of nurses’ works, significance of analysis of working hours of each nurse, and concept of necessary working hours. They presented a method of a simulation to estimate the necessary working hours, examples of analysis of the working hours shown by the simulation, examples of overloaded works. They also presented that simulation method is possible to evaluate a remedy plan for the overload. They concluded that the method is useful.
