ENMA 6010:
System Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
Current Semester Projects – Spring 2011
For the Spring
2011 offering of ENMA 6010, the primary project sponsor is the Marquette
University College of Nursing. Under the
guidance of this sponsor, teams will be conducting system modeling, simulation,
and analysis of patient discharge processes at different units in Aurora Sinai
Medical Center and Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center. These projects will be integrated with
sponsor efforts to improve three aspects of the patient discharge system:
The intent of this work is to
describe the process that occurs on the day of hospital discharge from the time
a registered nurse (RN) learns that a patient will be discharged to the time of
patient discharge from the hospital to their home, a skilled nursing facility,
a long term care facility, or a hospice facility. There are a number of steps that may vary from
patient to patient before a patient is discharged. The goal is to create a system model of
patient discharge on the day of discharge taking into consideration: (1)
preceding processes, (2) variations in the process, (3) barriers, (4)
interruptions, (5) time, and (6) differences by discharge destination. The knowledge gained from system modeling on
multiple units will be used to uncover commonalities and uniquenesses
in processes and process disruptions within and across units that inform the
development of effective and efficient discharge process.
The students will spend time
with RNs who will be discharging patients to understand the process and the
decisions that RNs must make. A focus
group will be conducted at the end of the mapping process to validate the
process with the nurses who participated.
Other stakeholders in the process are case managers, social workers, and
pharmacists.
Project teams for this
semester’s projects are:
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Team 1: St. Lukes 10T –
Alfaro, Ortega, Pogacar
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Team 2: St. Lukes 3EF – Germana, Mueller, Williams
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Team 3: Sinai 4C – Clavier, Lentsh,
Sinnarkar
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Team 4: Sinai 4S – Jacobs, Nunez, Schuller-Rach,
Zagnoon
Primary sponsor contacts at
the College of Nursing are:
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Kathy Bobay:
kathleen.bobay@marquette.edu
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Marianne
Weiss: Marianne.weiss@marquette.edu
In order to assist teams in
preparing deliverables for their projects, two case studies are provided
below. Note that time
and resource limitations may cause student deliverables to provide somewhat
less detail than what is provided in the case studies. Nevertheless, the case studies should provide
teams with an idea of what their deliverables should look like.
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Deliverable |
Waukesha Foundry |
Day Hospital |
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1. Project
Overview |
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2.
System Description |
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3. Context
Diagram |
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4. Data
Flow Diagram |
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5. State
Transition Diagram |
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6. Entity Relationship Diagram |
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7. Process
Flow Diagram |
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8. Arena Simulation |
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9.
IBIS Analysis |
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10. Final
Presentation |
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11. Causal
Loop Diagram |
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12. Final
Report |
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