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Q: Identify the issue, show the application of text material to the company issue, discuss 3 alternatives for resolution and the most appropriate alternative as recommendation
The Emergency Room (ER) at Northwest General (A) case: Menn Kostich is the new department director for emer- forecasting method to use. Jenns assistant provided her gency services at Northwest General Hospital. One of with information on patient arrivals in the by hour hmergency is to ensure proper staffing in the and day of the ER October. room (ER) by scheduli week for the previous month, shifts. This been nurses to appro- october was considered a typical month for the ER and ER. The former has a the Jenn was in the chart) that she had an forecasts, director did not base nurse schedules the information (shown where to begin. but used the same fixed schedule week requested and wondered after week. jenn had recently received her degree in operations Case Questions management. She knew that schedules needed to be 1. What is your opinion of the level at which the data based on forecasts of demand. She needed to start by are being collected? What are some of the advan- analyzing historical data in order to determine the best stages of collecting data at this level?