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Six Sigma - ANSWERA quality process that focuses on developing and delivering near perfect products and services. Quality - ANSWERThe consistent delivery of products and services according to accepted standards. Productivity - ANSWERThe ratio of quality and quantity of output to the amount of input, such as labor hours required to generate the output. Process - ANSWERA course of action to achieve a result. A Quality Management System - ANSWERProvides a method to effectively, efficien...

Since Sterile Processing (SP) technicians do not handle money, ethics considerations do not apply to them. - ANSWERTrue or false False SP technicians practice resource management when they control costs and reduce waste - ANSWERTrue or false True SP technicians must be able to identify approximately 100 surgical instruments in order to be proficient in their job - ANSWERTrue or false False Sp technician's must be able to adapt to change - ANSWERTrue or false True ...

The department checks patient care equipment for safety and functionality - ANSWERBiomedical clinical engineering Invasive and minimally invasive procedures occur in ______ within the healthcare facility - ANSWERProcedure areas Manufacturers sometimes loan equipment to facilities at no cost if the facility agrees to purchase disposable equipment components from the manufacturer - ANSWERTRUE Equipment leasing is usually done on a short-term basis - ANSWERFalse Both biomedical and ...

Leader - ANSWERPerson who influences and guides others towrad the achievement of goals Skill set - ANSWERSkills required to accomplish a specific task or function Management - ANSWERProcess of using what one has (resources) to accomplish goals and objectives Unity of command - ANSWEROrganizing principle that suggests each employee should only have one supervisor Confidentiality - ANSWERThe right of a patient to have personal and identifiable medical informationkept private Confl...

Risk Management - ANSWERThis department is responsible for ensuring the facility is in compliance with regulatory groups. When planning an in service session it is important to: - ANSWERSchedule a time and place and determine the format Well-planned training sessions: - ANSWERAre not always successful Topics usually discussed during orientation include: - ANSWERConduct requirements Auditory learners learn best: - ANSWERWhen they can hear and repeat the information. Employees are m...

Skill Set - ANSWERThe skills required to accomplish a specific task or function. Span of Control - ANSWERThe number of employees one person can effectively supervise decreases as the complexity of their job duties increases Discrimination - ANSWERUnfavorable or unfair treatment on the basis of an individual's race, religion, gender, national origin, disability, age, and in some states and communities, sexual orientation. Mission Statement - ANSWERSuccessful team leaders and their tea...

Soiled instruments and other items are received in the: - ANSWERDecontamination The first step in the sterilization process is: - ANSWERCleaning Central sterilization techs must wear proper attire called: - ANSWERPPE Instruments sets and other required items needed for all scheduled procedures for a day are usually pulled: - ANSWERThe day or evening before they are used The use of analytical skills to solve problems and make decisions is apart of which knowledge and skill set? - ANSW...

Skill Set - ANSWERThe skills required to accomplish a specific task or function (pg 5) Unity of Command - ANSWERAn organizing principle that suggests each employee should have one supervisor. (pg 7) Delegation - ANSWERThe process of assigning authority to subordinates to do work that a manager at a higher organizational level would otherwise do Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) - ANSWERA federal act that requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment to all individuals...

The department checks patient care equipment for safety and functionality - ANSWERBiomedical clinical engineering This service is performed on equipment to maintain its proper operating condition - ANSWERPreventive Maintenance (PM) Manufacturers sometimes loan equipment to facilities at no cost if the facility agrees to purchase disposable equipment components from the manufacturer - ANSWERTRUE Equipment leasing is usually done on a short-term basis - ANSWERFalse Both biomedical ...

testing that assesses the performance of a steam sterilizer in the environment in which it will be used before the equipment is approved for routine use in the healthcare facility - ANSWERqualification while some sterilization failures result from mechanical failures over which the technician has no control, many process failures can be avoided by - ANSWERdeveloping good work practices the process of protecting a sterile item from any event that will contaminate it - ANSWERsterility mainte...

What is a possible goal of an indifference-zone normal means selection technique? - ANSWERFind the normal population having the largest mean, especially if the largest mean is ≫ the second-largest. TRUE or FALSE? The Bechhofer procedure for selecting the normal population with the largest mean specifies the appropriate number of observations to take from each competing population, and simply selects the competitor having the largest sample mean. - ANSWERTrue TRUE or FALSE? Sometimes a si...

Probability Experiment (Trial) - ANSWERany process with a result determined by chance Outcome - ANSWERindividual result possible from a probability experiment Sample Space - ANSWERset of all possible outcomes for a probability experiment Event - ANSWERsubset of outcomes from the sample space Sample Space Example - ANSWER-roll a six sided die {1,2,3,4,5,6} -{}- set notation Notation of Sample Space - ANSWER-"S" capital Denote an Event with - ANSWER-a letter such as A,B,C...

Accuracy - ANSWERHow closely a computed value agrees with the true value Precision - ANSWERHow closely individual values from different numerical analyses of same problem agree with each other True error - ANSWERDifference between the true value and the approximation Relative error - ANSWERTrue error divided by the true value Tolerance - ANSWERUsually want to know if true error is lower than pre-specified tolerance - computation is repeated until true error less than tolerance - when...

Flipping a fair coin is said to randomly generate heads and tails with equal probability. Explain what random means in this context. - ANSWERIn the long run, a fair coin will generate 50% heads and 50% tails, approximately. But for each flip, the outcome cannot be predicted. A friend says "I flipped five heads in a row! The next one has to be tails!" Explain why this thinking is incorrect. - ANSWERThere is no law of averages for the short run. The first five flips do not affect the sixt...

1-norm - ANSWERSimilar to rectilinear distance; measures the straight-line length of a vector from the origin. If z=(z1,z2,...,zm) is a vector in an m-dimensional space, then it's 1-norm is square root(|

In logistic regression, the relationship between the probability of success and the predicting variables is nonlinear. - ANSWERTRUE: The equation that links the predictors to the probability is:

TRUE or FALSE? In Arena, variables are global. - ANSWERtrue TRUE or FALSE? In Arena, you can use the SEIZE - DELAY - RELEASE module series instead of a single PROCESS module. - ANSWERtrue TRUE or FALSE? (Almost) every simulation language utilizes a future events list to process events in order by time. - ANSWERtrue TRUE or FALSE? In Arena, variables are global - ANSWERtrue TRUE or FALSE? In Arena, you can use the SEIZE - DELAY - RELEASE module series instead of a single PROCESS modul...

Is the following statement true or false? If false, explain briefly. The alpha level depends on the sample size. A) The statement is false because the alpha level is set independently and does not depend on the sample size. B) The statement is false because the alpha level depends on the p-value, not the sample size. C) The statement is false because the alpha level depends on the test statistic, not the sample size. D) The statement is true. - ANSWERA) The statement is false because the a...

Harry Markowitz (one of the big wheels in simulation language development) won his Nobel Prize for portfolio theory in 1990, though the work that earned him the award was conducted much earlier in the 1950s. Who won the 1990 Prize with him? You are allowed to look this one up. - ANSWERMerton Miller and William Sharpe Which of the following times could be regarded as events? - ANSWERCustomers arrive, Justin forgets a lyric, Justin sings wrong note, Customers depart TRUE or FALSE? Customer w...

If f(x, y) = cxy for all 0 < x < 1 and 1 < y < 2, where c is whatever value makes this thing integrate to 1, then X and Y are independent random variables - ANSWERTRUE. (Because f(x, y) = a(x)b(y) factors nicely, and there are no funny limits.) In our Arena Call Center example, it was possible for entities to be left in the system when it shut down at 7:00 p.m. (even though we stopped allowing customers to enter the system at 6:00 p.m.). - ANSWERTRUE — because of the small chanc...