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1) Do a force field analysis (FFA) on the driving and restraining forces that influence your ability to do well in a specific academic course. One driving force may be "your desire to learn." One restraining force may be "your need to devote time to other work."
2) Using the following data, prepare a run chart, scatter chart, and control chart. A late surgery is defined as any surgical operation that was started more than 30 minutes after its scheduled time (Table 14-4).
Table 14-4 Number of Late Surgeries |
Month |
Number of Surgeries |
Number of Late Surgeries |
January |
435 |
112 |
February |
401 |
129 |
March |
572 |
186 |
April |
409 |
103 |
May |
577 |
89 |
June |
329 |
67 |
July |
467 |
156 |
August |
301 |
94 |
September |
235 |
89 |
October |
325 |
127 |
November |
378 |
156 |
December |
444 |
124 |
Total |
4873 |
1432 |
3) The ambulatory health service at a university is experiencing an increased number of student complaints concerning the services it offers in its walk-in urgent care clinic.
The Basis of Complaint
Type 1 The quality of service received
Type 2 Waiting time was too long
Type 3 Follow-up care was not available
Type 4 Clinic was hard to find in the building
Type 5 The medical care/treatment took too long
Type 6 They could not find my medical record
Using these data, select a complaint for analysis. Your analysis must include a fish bone chart as well as other types of charts and techniques you deem necessary to appropriately analyze this data (Table 14-5). What do you recommend and why?
Table 14-5 Number of Student Complaints by Complaint Type |
Complaint Type |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
Total Visits |
September |
34 |
38 |
16 |
45 |
13 |
103 |
824 |
October |
23 |
24 |
7 |
40 |
9 |
56 |
956 |
November |
14 |
50 |
11 |
20 |
26 |
34 |
1167 |
December |
67 |
40 |
12 |
17 |
34 |
9 |
1034 |
January |
13 |
31 |
10 |
12 |
15 |
45 |
645 |
February |
20 |
60 |
4 |
12 |
9 |
6 |
1645 |
March |
23 |
97 |
18 |
23 |
4 |
3 |
1432 |
April |
43 |
31 |
3 |
14 |
13 |
0 |
745 |
May |
4 |
25 |
0 |
12 |
16 |
1 |
456 |
Total |
241 |
396 |
81 |
196 |
139 |
257 |
8904 |