Scheduling and planning for allocating resources to the activities so that the activities can be done in the best manner and resources allocated appropriately is one of the most important problems of management and operation research. The hospitals are one of the organizations that face with this problem in allocating nurses to the shifts in the most appropriate time period so precisely that the defections could not be eliminated and the goals are achieved. Therefore, the present study was aimed to develop a model for nurse scheduling through goal programing technique. The proposed model includes different purposes as its goals and strives to achieve them. This model can be used for solving similar problems in the urgency units in hospitals. This problem has been solved by Lingo 8 and finally its results have been compared with the results of manual methods.
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