There's a good reason it's called the Nurse Scheduling Problem, not the Barrista Scheduling Problem :-) When my twins were in NICU, it hit me what a challenge

There's a good reason it's called the Nurse Scheduling Problem, not the Barrista Scheduling Problem :-) When my twins were in NICU, it hit me what a challenge it must be to schedule nurses in such a unit. Accross the three shifts in a day, the nurse/patient ratio is a little over one. I think for about 30 NICU babies you had about 75 nurses, so this is an interesting planning problem.