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The data of community health system is given below:
Time required for one patient \(=1.25\) hours
Number of nurses in the team \(=12\)
a) Calculate the capacity of the nurse team over the course of a 9-hour work day as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \text { Capacity for one hour } &=\frac{\text { Number of nurse }}{\text { Time required by one paitent }} \\ &=\frac{12}{1.25} \\ &=9.6 \\ \text { Capacity for } 9 \text { hour } & \text { = Capacity for one hour } \times \text { Availabe time } \\ &=9.6 \times 9 \\ &=86.4 \sim 86 \end{aligned} $$
b) Calculate the utilization of the nurse team, if the demand for the nurses is 60 patients per day as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \text { Utilization } &=\frac{\text { Demand }}{\text { Capacity }} \times 100 \\ &=\frac{60}{86} \times 100 \\ &=69.7 \% \sim 70 \% \end{aligned} $$
Therefore, the utilization of the nurse team, if the demand for the nurses is 60 patients per day is \begin{tabular}{|l|} \hline 70 percent \\ \hline \end{tabular}
c) Calculate the cycle time, if the demand for the nurses is 60 patients per day as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \text { Flow rate } &=\frac{\text { Demand }}{\text { Available time (minutes) }} \\ &=\frac{60}{9 \times 60} \\ &=0.11 \text { patients per minute } \end{aligned} $$
$$ \begin{aligned} \text { Cycle time } &=\frac{1}{\text { Flow rate }} \\ &=\frac{1}{0.11} \\ &=9.09-9 \text { minutes per paitent } \end{aligned} $$
Therefore, the cycle time, if the demand for the nurses is 60 patients per day is 9 minutes per patient