Operations Management

This fact sheet helps answer a lot of questions of why the wait times in the emergency room waiting room has increased. It also gives a bullet list of how to decrease wait times as well.

At his or her turn, each patient is seen by a doctor and then exits the process, either with a prescription or with admission to the hospital. Currently, 50 people per hour arrive at the ER, 10% of whom are admitted to the hospital. On average, 30 people are waiting to be registered and 40 are registered and waiting to see a doctor. The registration process takes, on average, 2 minutes per patient. Among patients who receive prescriptions, average time spent with a doctor is 5 minutes. Among those admitted to the hospital, average time is 30 minutes. On average, how long does a patient stay in the ER? On average, how many patients are being examined by doctors? On average, how many patients are in the ER? Waiting Waiting Doctor check-in to be Registration to see a Hospital Prescription registered doctor 30 p 1.67 p 40 p 2.5 p 3.75 p 50 p/h 50 p/h 50 p/h 5 p/h 45 p/h 36 min 2 min 48 min 30 min 5 min

An attempt was made to reduce the wait time by initiating a triage system which aimed to reduce wait time from when a patient completes the form to the time it takes to be seen by Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner

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Emergency nurses often care for a variety of patients with minor injuries to critical illnesses. It is emergency nurses that frequently see patients before physicians. This sequence makes it especially important for emergency nurses to be able to rapidly assess and treat patients. Emergency nurses are expected to be knowledgeable in a multitude of areas and skilled at several tasks. It is experience that typically

From all 81 samples 48(59.3%) one were male and 33(40.7%) one were female. 20(24.7%) sample were in the 20-39 age group, 34(42%) one were in 40-59 age group and 27(33.3%) one were older than 60 years old. Also 25.9% weren’t being able to read and write and 33.3% had heart disease and 43.2% had diabetes. The distribution between two groups of Hemodialysis and peritoneal patients was already equal. (Table 1)

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Emergency rooms locally and nationwide are inundated with patients. Due to extended wait times, patients often suffer permanent damage or even die awaiting treatment. More often, others leave without being seen by a healthcare provider. The current problem of extended wait times prevents ER 's from delivering quality patient care in a time efficient manner. Wait times and overcrowding often results in negative and/or poor patient outcomes. It is this nurse 's belief that evaluation of triage tools and implementation of the most effective tool could serve to decrease patient wait times and reduce negative patient outcomes. Triage is often the first point of contact between the nurse and the patient. The triage assessment conducted by the nurse often determines the level of care the patient will receive. The triage assessment tool must be accurate in determining prioritization of care as well as

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Supply chain management is the coordination of the processes and functions within a business, adopted by most companies in the UK in the late 1990’s. It deals with the internal and external factors that, when dealt with correctly and systematically, can determine a businesses success or failure. A supply chain is the network of activities that delivers a finished product service to the customer. By definition, supply chain management (SCM) is “the management of the flows of materials from suppliers to customers in order to reduce overall cost and increase responsiveness to the customers” (Reid & Sanders). SCM entails the co-ordination of the movement of good through the

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- “The level production strategy keeps the production level at a fixed rate (usually to meet average demand) and uses inventories to absorb variations in demand”.

a) Both are true b) Both are false c) True and false respectively d) False and true respectively.