intimidating to the typical medical student. You can provide assistance by seeing patients in triage and writing two-hour notes on the patients on Labor and Delivery (L and D). Be sure to present the patients to the intern or upper level residents. When presenting‚ always end with an assessment of what you think is happening with the patient and what you would like to do. Patients in triage will either require a triage (SOAP) note or an admission H and P depending on what needs to be done. Take notes when
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UHS Walk-In Clinic Case Analysis 1. Draw a process flow diagram of the post-triage system. Compare waiting times for the pre-triage and the post-triage systems. Is the new system an improvement over the old? See Flow Chart attached. No‚ it did not improve the process. The new triage did not meet the intended goals of off-loading patients to NPs and the overall throughput time did not change. 2. Analyze the available MD and NP capacity. How effective is the clinic in matching supply and
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Katie Preparation for Disaster Glendale Community College Preparation for Disaster Disasters across the world have devastated large populations and cost billions of dollars worldwide. From the tsunami in 2006 to Hurricane Katrina‚ the world has seen its share of the wrath of natural disasters. Populations have also experienced manmade disasters such as 9/11 and the oil spills in Louisiana. What are people doing as a population to protect‚ prevent‚ and empower oneself from these catastrophes
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Several existing problems precipitated the creation of the triage system implemented by Kathryn Angell in an effort to deliver improved medical care. The main problem was a lack of coordination in service delivery. This lack of coordination caused excessive wait times on the order of anywhere from 23 to 40 minutes to see a nurse‚ 40 to 50 minutes to see a doctor‚ and as long as 55 minutes to get a prescription filled. The practice of all nurses being involved initially in seeing all patients caused
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1. A manufacturer’s average work-in-process inventory for a certain part is 1‚000 units. The workstation produces this part at the rate of 200 units per day. What is the average time a unit spends at this workstation? 2. The Wilcox Student Health Center has just implemented a new computer system and service process to \improve e±ciency." As pharmacy manager‚ you are con- cerned about waiting time and its potential impact on college students who \get no respect." All prescriptions (Rxs) go
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Chapter 3: Process flow measures 3.1 Objective The objective of this chapter is to identify key operational measures that may be used to study process flows. They are linked together using Little’s law. We then present a series of examples that show how process flow analysis may be used to study performance. The objective is to study current performance as well as identify target areas for improvement. We also link the operational measures of performance to financial measures. In a class of
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the ER? (b) On average‚ how many patients are being examined by doctors? (c) On average‚ how many patients are there in the ER? Assume the process to be stable; that is‚ average inflow rate equals average outflow rate. Problem 2 (exercise 3.5) A triage system has been proposed for the ER described
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ILM LEVEL 3 Award in first line management M3.01 Solving Problems and Making Decisions by Donna Sullivan Hull Training 2012 Table of Contents Context of assignment 2 The description of the problem 3 Analysis of the problem 4 Resolution of the problem 5 Implementation and communication of the solution 6 Appendix 7 Background: I work for the City Health Care Partnership within the Primary Care Medical Services‚ I work for 4 different GP practices as the Data Quality
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Anything‚ but normal would describe my eldest son Donald‚ or as he prefers Donny or Don. His timing was impeccable when he came into this world two weeks early on opening deer hunting weekend. By the way‚ nothing stops an opener in a family of avid hunters‚ not even a baby. His dad was there to see him into the world for about a day. Back then‚ it was common practice for a 7-day hospital stay after a C-section‚ talk of postpartum blues‚ I cried the whole time. When I look back‚ I see a sweet‚ happy-go-lucky
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Triage Study Prompt 1. Survivor guilt‚ trauma and acknowledging culpability all add to peoples suffering in Triage. Discuss. These three themes play am important role in Mark’s life after he returns from Kurdistan‚ especially in regards to the death of his best friend‚ which he denies for most of the novel. Suffering severely from post-traumatic stress disorder and the physical injuries he sustained from a bomb explosion‚ Mark has become a shadow of the man he once was‚ which in turn causes
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