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Creating Capacity To Accommodate Additional Cardiac Catheterization Procedures, Kristin Anthony

Operations Transformation

Patient access to diagnostic outpatient (OP) cardiac catheterization is limited by a perceived lack of capacity. Outpatient cardiac cath pts flow through the ACU for pre/post procedure care. Current schedule limits pts that may be scheduled through the ACU to two OP procedures/day. Cardiologists request the ability to schedule beyond the two procedures/day allowed. Significant variation in pre/postoperative care orders exist amongst cardiologists resulting in variability in length of stay. Cardiac procedures are booked either as 60/90/120 minutes – Epic case averaging technology is not active in the cath lab. As a result, the case minutes in the cath lab …

Improvement In Patient Compliance For Gynecological Care, Tracee Williams

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

This quality improvement project implemented the patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) pathway in a gynecology clinic setting. PIFU has potential to lead to decreased no-show appointments and increased patient autonomy in outpatient healthcare practices. Barriers that influence compliance with plans of care include lower socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, and unmet social needs such as food insecurity, healthcare travel and cost, and child/adult care needs. In addition to higher rates of no-show appointments, individuals facing these barriers have increased comorbidities. Prior to implementing the PIFU model, patients between the ages of 18 and 42 completed a patient satisfaction survey to better …

Examining Reported Versus Actual Attendance In College Basketball Non-Conference Games: Do Scheduling Elements Make A Difference?, Nels Popp, Stephen Shapiro, Jason Simmons, Ryan Dastrup

Journal of Applied Sport Management

This study examines factors impacting sport attendance at non-conference NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games. Non-conference college basketball games are relatively unique because athletic department personnel control many of the scheduling variables related to event popularity, including opponent, game day, and start time. As such, it is valuable for administrators to know which elements might maximize event revenue. The current study is also unique because it examines both reported attendance (tickets disseminated) and actual attendance (tickets scanned at the venue). A total of 48 schools provided ticket scan rate data for their non-conference home basketball games over three seasons …

Conflict With Administrators: Scheduling Conflicts With Administration, Constance Cleveland, Deepa Raghavan, Dipra Debnath, Jay Maixner, Ranya Krayem, Vikash Mehan, Zane Mustafa, Ayman Salem

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Administrators: Medical School Scheduling Conflicts, Ciara White, Cornelius Lau, Hani Nasr, Kimera Harris, Lisa Doan, Kenan Abou Chaer, Astha Saini

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Administrators: No Scheduling Accommodations Made For Physicians By Administration, Malik Al-Jamal, Edward Abarado, Kendall Brothers, Laura Geneseo, Marla Adam, Nolan Tews, Sahalia Rashid

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Administrators: Employee Scheduling Conflict, Abigail Limary, Anne Patterson, Christian Freitag, Daniel Gealer, Katelyn Toloff, Ryan Katz, Mariam Raheem

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Administrators: Double-Booking Patients And Long Wait Times, Saleh Al-Juburi, Alexa Kalaj, Amrutha Kotlure, Hannah Lee, Juwan Taylor, Salvatore Serra, Mariam Raheem

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Administrators: Patient Scheduling, Anastasia Goldbaum, Austin Kim, Cole Sabinash, Gabrielle Cowen, Kassim Salami, Simran Brar, Sahalia Rashid

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Patient: Empathize With Patient: Long Waiting Time., Anah Nicolai, Gabriella Gonzales, Leane Kuo, Mitchell Wu, Tannia M. Rodriguez, Sahalia Rashid, Rahul Vyas

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Patient: Late Physician And Patient Wait Time, Anisha Patel, Annelise Gordon, Jonathan Toma, Maximilian Wehner, Rohit Goru, Amanah Fatima

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Patient: Long Wait Time At Doctor Office, Alexander Minos, Carline Dugue, Ethan Mathew, Katherine Sommers, Lauren Fleckenstein, Peter Zakaria, Sahalia Rashid, Rahul Vyas

Patient Education Projects

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Conflict With Peer: Scheduling Conflicts, Saleh Al-Juburi, Alexa Kalaj, Amrutha Kotlure, Hannah Lee, Juwan Taylor, Salvatore Serra, Mariam Raheem

Patient Education Projects

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Organizational Methods Of Reducing Burnout: The Impact Of Self-Rostering On Work-Life-Integration, Cory Authement

MSN Capstone Projects

With burnout being at an all-time high, organizations must find new ways to prioritize staff wellbeing and promote work-life balance. According to the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) turnover in emergency departments ranges from 15-30% within the first year of nursing, and 43% within the first three years (Roncallo et al., 2020). These turnover rates cost a 300-bed facility approximately four million dollars in annual expenditure (Hesse, 2016). This level of loss and expenditure is unsustainable for the future of nursing and diverts resources away from our patients.

In recent studies, it was shown that burnout leads to difficulties for nurses …

Utilization Of Integer Programming For Scheduling Maintenance At Nuclear Power Plants, Timothy Gallacher

Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis develops a thought that naturally explores three specific motifs for solving the complexities of scheduling maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants (NPP). The first chapter of this paper will develop the initial thought around creating a schedule for a given work week, including all the various constraints inherent to this problem. Such constraints include but are not limited to personnel availability, allowable component out-of-service time, and the Plant Risk Assessment. The objective function being to minimize the total cost of worker’s compensation for that given week.

The second chapter addresses the question of whether this simple schedule can be …

Multitasking Scheduling With Shared Processing, Bin Fu, Yumei Huo, Hairong Zhao

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has raised a lot of interest in the service industries. Hall et al. (Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2016) proposed a shared processing multitasking scheduling model which allows a team to continue to work on the primary tasks while processing the routinely scheduled activities as they occur. With a team being modeled as a single machine, the processing sharing of the machine is achieved by allocating a fraction of the processing capacity to routine jobs and the remaining fraction, which we denote as sharing ratio, to the primary jobs. In this paper, we generalize this model …

2nd Annual Girls Build Summer Academy: Logistics And Scheduling, Matteo Cade Cuccaro

Construction Management

This paper discusses the logistics and scheduling involved for Cal Poly construction management department’s second annual Girls Build Summer Academy. The week-long academy was hosted to introduce construction related activities to 19 high school-aged girls so they could learn more about the careers available within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, while learning skills to build individual and team projects. To achieve this goal, a full schedule was developed for each day of the camp, allowing for a variety of activities, including listening to guest speakers, completing building projects, and training to safely use tools. There were many challenges that …

Adding An Admission Nurse To Help Alleviate Staff's Workload Stress, Zharmaine Zafra

Nursing Research & Professional Development Conference

Background: Getting a lot of admissions during shift change challenges and stresses nurses because they feel they cannot not give adequate care to patients.

Local Problem: Clinical nurses on a surgical unit at a large, urban, Level 1 trauma center, expressed concern about heavy workload during admissions. Heavy workload during admission affects the stress level of the staff which could negatively impact the quality of care provided to all the patients.

Method: To reduce the workload stress of the nurses, the unit implemented an admission nurse role. Prior to implementation, a unit RN surveyed the nurses about how an admissions …

Improving Opportunities For Students By Creating Pathways For Taking Art, Denise Hingst

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

According to research, art education has gone through a decline, causing a lack of opportunities for students to experience the development of creativity in the general classroom. These opportunities for students in the schools in this study become even harder at the secondary level. With these small schools, it falls on the leadership of the administration to solve the scheduling dilemma for all the students. A school improvement plan is put into place to help increase the pathways for taking art by extending the day at one of the schools and changing the schedules to better help both schools work …

Dynamic Scheduling With Uncertain Job Types, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Jingui Xie, Zhichao Zheng, Han Zhou

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Uncertain job types can arise as a result of predictive or diagnostic inaccuracy in healthcare or repair service systems and unknown preferences in matching service systems. In this paper, we study systems with multiple types of jobs, in which type information is imperfect and will be updated dynamically. Each job has a prior probability of belonging to a certain type which may be predicted by data, models, or experts. A job can only be processed by the right machine, and a job assigned to the wrong machine must be rescheduled. More information is learned from the mismatch, and job type …

Heuristics For Lagrangian Relaxation Formulations For The Unit Commitment Problem, Stephen Opeyemi Fatokun

Doctoral Dissertations

The expansion of distributed energy resources (DER), demand response (DR), and virtual bidding in many power systems and energy markets are creating new challenges for unit commitment (UC) and economic dispatch (ED) techniques. Instead of a small number of traditionally large generators, the power system resource mix is moving to one with a high percentage of a large number of small units. These can increase the number of similar or identical units, leading to chattering (switching back and forth among committed units between iterations). This research investigates alternative and scalable ways of increasing the high penetration of these resources.

First, …

A Data-Driven Approach For Scheduling Bus Services Subject To Demand Constraints, Brahmanage Janaka Chathuranga Thilakarathna, Thivya Kandappu, Baihua Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Passenger satisfaction is extremely important for the success of a public transportation system. Many studies have shown that passenger satisfaction strongly depends on the time they have to wait at the bus stop (waiting time) to get on a bus. To be specific, user satisfaction drops faster as the waiting time increases. Therefore, service providers want to provide a bus to the waiting passengers within a threshold to keep them satisfied. It is a two-pronged problem: (a) to satisfy more passengers the transport planner may increase the frequency of the buses, and (b) in turn, the increased frequency may impact …

Streaming Approximation Scheme For Minimizing Total Completion Time On Parallel Machines Subject To Varying Processing Capacity, Bin Fu, Yumei Huo, Hairong Zhao

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We study the problem of minimizing total completion time on parallel machines subject to varying processing capacity. In this paper, we develop an approximation scheme for the problem under the data stream model where the input data is massive and cannot fit into memory and thus can only be scanned a few times. Our algorithm can compute an approximate value of the optimal total completion time in one pass and output the schedule with the approximate value in two passes.

Standardizing Hands-On Building Activities In Commercial Construction Management And Recommendations For Semester Conversion Adaptations, Lauren T. Mcclurg

Construction Management

CM 313 Commercial Construction Management at Cal Poly is an integrated lab course and one of the main hands-on learning experiences construction management students participate in. It is currently administered in the quarter system and as the university transitions to the semester calendar, the lab needs to be converted in order to accommodate this change. The main purpose of this project was to document existing practices and improve the process and experience for students, instructional students assistants, Simpson Strong Tie coordinator, and other professors of CM 313. This project included creating a builders guide to help the student assistants by …

An Efficient Task-Parallel Platform For Interactive Applications, Kyle Singer

McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The performance growth of individual processor cores has been slowed by physical limitations that are difficult to overcome; as such, the trend has been for processor manufacturers to instead increase the number of processing cores in a single chip. As a result, programmers must write parallel code to gain performance. While prior work on task-parallel platforms has simplified the process of writing throughput-oriented scientific applications, they have paid little attention to the types of workloads seen in modern interactive applications such as web services.

Interactive applications are programs which interact with users or other programs using input/output (I/O) operations and …

Strategic Use Of Wellness Ambassadors To Increase Attendance Of Initial Mental Health Appointments, Kaitlyn Blair, Mirna Law, Bettina Bernstein

Research Day

Background

Many adults and children with mental health conditions in the US do not receive treatment, and in Philadelphia alone, there were 174 suicide deaths in 2017. The shortage of mental health professionals and long wait times are significant barriers to accessing mental health care. Executive function difficulties can make it challenging for individuals to maintain a schedule for mental health appointments. A study found that reminder phone calls result in an increased rate of mental health appointment keeping. The goal of this project is to increase attendance of first mental health appointments by patients referred to mental health services …

The Block: A Catalyst For Ongoing Innovation, Loretta Konjarski, John Weldon, Susan Ashley, Traci Freeman, Jai Shanata, Meghan Yamanishi, Erin Lotz, Christian Gilde, Alice Ganzel

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

This paper will contribute to our understanding of the Block, its pedagogical rationale and value, and explain why, apart from pandemic conditions, these might constitute a compelling alternative to traditional academic calendars. Current research highlights the need for further research on the nature of the Block, driven by an increased global focus on student outcomes and retention in Higher Education. This paper offers five case studies from institutions that have adopted a version of the Block at some time over the last 50 years. The authors seek to define the features that comprise block courses whereas the nature and functionality …

Tips To Make The Most Of Early Registration, Anna Roussel, Office Of Communications & Marketing

Press Releases

Early Registration (ER) is a key step in becoming a Ouachita Tiger. If you’re new to Ouachita ­­– or just new to this experience – here are some helpful tips to make the most of ER.

Research On Modeling And Scheduling Of Virtual Power Plant With Dual Demand Response, Qiang Chen, Yi Wang, Kangshun Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Virtual power plant technology provides an effective means to aggregate distributed power and user side resources to participate in power scheduling. Most of the existing research focus on the scheduling optimization of distributed energy instead of the demand response of user side. The user side resources are divided into contracted reliable response load and non-contracted random response load, and the load response is regulated through price adjustment mechanism to adapt to the change of distributed. A virtual power plant optimal scheduling model with dual demands response is constructed, in which the maximizing overall profit of the power grid is …

S23rs Sgr No. 18 (Ods Priority Scheduling), Brett Robertson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request the University Registrar to recognize and continue to implement priority scheduling for all students registered with Disability Services