Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Middletown Hospital is a 200-bed‚ not-for-profit-general hospital that has an emergency department with 20 emergency beds. The emergency department handles on an average 100 patients per day. The hospital’s CEO has authorized the Six Sigma Team (SST) to address complaints received from patients seeking treatment between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. The complaints are centered on waiting times and poor service. During this time the data indicates that approximately
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Microbial load on unwashed hands There are grave consequences when people do not wash their hands or wash them improperly. It is known that hands are the main media for contaminants getting to people‚ whether the infections are airborne‚ oral or tactile. Infectious diseases that are commonly spread through hand to hand contact include the common cold‚ and several gastrointestinal disorders such as diarrhoea (WaterAid‚ 2006). Human hands usually harbour microorganisms
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Employee Fraud and Purchasing Department There is a phenomenon in middle/small size companies in China that purchasing agents of the companies collaborate with vendors to create fake receipts‚ in order to receive more reimbursement from the company. This also happened in the hospital I used to work for‚ where the purchasing agent had to buy food from different vendors for everyday dinning purpose. The fraud got exposed when one day a vendor called us and revealed the fact that
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Police Department Roles and Functions CJA/214 September 20‚ 2012 Scott Mann Roles and Functions The Police Department must serve many roles and purposes so they also must take care of any issues that arise‚ dealing with the law or public safety. For this reason they have different specialized concentrations of officers designed to carry out certain functions. This also varies according to jurisdiction where there are state‚ local and even federal jurisdictions. This also affects what are
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Orange County Fire Authority is one of the biggest departments in southern California. It was founded as Orange County Fire Department in 1980 and declared bankruptcy in December 1994. Then three months later in March 1995‚ it reopened as Orange County Fire Authority with a new Fire Chief. It now has seventy-one fire stations‚ four helicopters‚ a wildland unit‚ and a hazmat unit. It has over one thousand full-time firefighters‚ two hundred reserve firefighters‚ covering twenty-three cities‚ and protecting
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Related Literature The paper presents a short literature review comparing online evaluations with paper. The Eco nomics department at University of Belgrade‚ Serbia conducted a small pilot in a course of 800students in May of 2006. Half the students received paper evaluations in class and half were directed to complete an identical online evaluation. The paper evaluation received a 92.5% response rate and the online received a 52% response rate after an incentive was introduced. They found tha
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<< THIS CAN BE USED FOR JOB APPLICATIONS / INTERVIEWS >> when they ask what do you expect a finance department do - OTHERWISE can be used for Financial Accounting assignments :)! Hope it helpsThe Finance DepartmentThe finance department of a business manages money for thebusiness/company. The department records the financial transactions ofa business and helps it plan for the future financially. Activities of the finance departmentRecording all the financial maters of a business/companyBusinesses
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Electronic payment systems overview of basic concepts credit-card based systems (MOTO‚ SSL‚ SET) electronic cash systems (DigiCash) micropayment schemes (PayWord‚ probabilistic schemes) Overview of basic concepts brief history of money traditional forms of payment – cash – payment through bank – payment cards Overview of basic concepts electronic payment systems – security requirements – basic classification © Levente Buttyán 2 1 A brief history of money barter
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Performance-Based Compensation posted by Pat Wootton on December 3‚ 2011 In our parents’ day‚ salary was generally based on seniority; every employee in a comparable position earned the same‚ with annual increments and cost-of-living raises. Seniority was rewarded‚ youthful enthusiasm perhaps not. The obvious drawback to this system was a tendency for long-standing employees to become comfortable with their guaranteed salary and become less motivated. Additionally‚ there
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Reading a modernist novel entails bearing in mind a whole new world of ideas‚ a quite different perspective of giving life to those ideas than other written works and certainly a new aspect of accepting those ideas as a reader. It is not easy to pinpoint modernism’s roots and it is also difficult to say exactly what it expresses. However‚ one thing that is clearly proved in a modernist novel is the fact that there is a change in the understanding of the human self and the interaction between characters
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