CHAPTER 1 Operations management Short case: Dealing with variety – two examples The Bombay Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (TBSA) operates a service to transport home-cooked food from workers’ homes to office locations in downtown Bombay. Workers from residential districts must ride commuter trains some 30–40 km to work. Typically‚ they are conservative diners‚ and are also constrained by strong cultural taboos on food handling by caste‚ which discourage eating out. TBSA arranges for food
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aloud: Last week I brought my mother into the Pre-Admission Testing Area. We live almost 3 hours away and had to make a special trip for this appointment‚ which her oncologist‚ Dr. Paul Schneider‚ said was necessary to ensure a safe and successful surgery. When we arrived at the clinic‚ the waiting room was so full‚ it was five minutes before my mother and I could get two seats together. We sat there for a full half-hour before they sent us back to get her blood pressure reading. We then waited back
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Case study #1 A 44-year-old African American male had a partial colectomy to have a cancerous tumor removed. The patient did really well after surgery and was discharged from post op recovery to the surgical unit at a medical center. Approximately one hour after surgery‚ the patient complained of gas pain and shortness of breath. Providers failed to diagnose a pulmonary embolism that resulted in the loss of the patient’s life A colectomy is an invasive surgical procedure that predisposes the patient
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Lidocaine Today I am going to talk to you about surgery and what type of drug that will be used to help during a surgical procedure. There are many different drugs that will be used in a surgical procedure but the one that I will give information on today is called Lidocaine. Lidocaine can be used in several different ways. The routes of administration include; “direct IV (Skidmore pp.624)” (into the vein with injection)‚ “continuous IV (Skidmore pp.624)” (a constant flow of medication into
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BIOPURE Corporation. 1. Give your best estimate of the sizes of Biopure’s market‚ potential market‚ and what you recommend as the target market in the animal market? Do the same for the human blood market? Who are these people (or animals)? Since the definitions of these different markets can be vague‚ it may be useful to operationalize these concepts in terms of circles on a target which represent the likelihood of being a customer and when they should be targeted by the company. Thus‚ the “target
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herniation‚ and a scheduled surgery for an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-C5 and C6-C7. According to Sharon Lewis in “Medical Surgical Nursing”‚ the cause of a cervicalgia cervical herniation is “the result of natural degeneration with age or repeated stress and trauma to the spine.” (Lewis‚ 2011) The follow through process was observed from when the patient arrived in the pre-op holding area until the patient arrived at the PACU. The expected outcome of the surgery for the patient is for
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and psychological preparation of children before surgery or other procedures requiring anesthesia. The provider’s goal is to ensure that the child’s medical issues are clearly defined and that the physiologic impact and limitations imposed by each condition are well delineated. The primary care provider’s knowledge of the patient’s past medical history and the results of an appropriate physical and/or laboratory evaluation before anesthesia and surgery can provide valuable information to both the anesthesiologist
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Identify the correct code for a patient who underwent acne surgery. 10040 Acne surgery code 5. Identify the correct code for a patient who’s undergoing destruction of six benign hyperkeratotic lesions: 11055 6. Identify the correct code for a blepharoplasty of the upper eyelid: 15822-50 7. Identify the correct code for reconstruction of a nail bed with graft: 11762 8. Identify the correct code for a patient undergoing cervicoplasty surgery: 11055 9. Identify the correct code for a patient who
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day surgery. I had the opportunity again to work alongside Adriana. I was not sure what to expect‚ I had heard other stories from classmates of the surgeries themselves‚ but not much on what how the nursing process works for the operating room nurse. The role that the nurse has during the surgery is a purely supportive person for the surgeons and both the anesthesiologist and surgical techs. OR nurses‚ also has the responsibility of charting the equipment that has been use for the surgery‚ doing
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O.R. nurses are also called Perioperative Registered Nurses more accurately reflect their duties immediately before‚ during‚ and after surgery. Perioperative registered nurses are relied on their professional judgment and critical thinking skills. They may work closely with the surgical patient‚ family members‚ and other health care professionals. They make a plan‚ implement the interventions‚ and evaluate treatment of the patient. Roles and activities in the unit Perioperative registered nurses
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