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Patients use a self-serve kiosk to confirm their arrival at an outpatient clinic. They then proceed to the receptionist to update any personal information. After that, a nurse will record the patient's vital signs. A physician will then consult with the patient and prescribe appropriate treatments. The patient will then visit the checkout station to settle payment and schedule the next appointment, if needed. Processing times and other information on the process are presented in the table below:

Resource Process Processing time (minutes per patient) Number of workers Wage rate ($per hour)
Self-service Check in 1 n/a n/a
Receptionist Update information 5 2 15
Nurse Record vital signs 10 3 30
Physician Treat patient 30 5 100
Checkout Collect payment 10 2 15

Required:
What is the labor content?

Sagot :

The labor content will be  55 minutes per patient.

What is labor?

In an economy, labor is related to the tangible, intellectual, and psychological effort required to generate goods and services.

The utilization of labor is done in four processes which include-

  1. information update
  2. recording vital signs
  3. treating the patient
  4. payment collection

The calculation of labor content is based on the above-mentioned process time done by workers.

Labor content =5+10+30+10

                        =55  minutes

Therefore, labor content will be 55 minutes per patient.

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