South Roads Hospital nurses and supervisors believe that high absenteeism among nurse aides in the past...
South Roads Hospital nurses and supervisors believe that high absenteeism among nurse aides in the past month has been a problem and it affects quality of service to their patients. You have been assigned to investigate this problem, using one of the methods you learned. Selecting samples of 100 aides files you have the following data:
Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Number of Aides Absent 5 8 11 15 4 2 7 1 4 6 14 19 3 5 8
17) In which of the following ranges you can find the Upper Control Limit of your control chart? Keep 4 decimals in all calculations.
A. 0.1427
B. 0.1536
C. 0.1677
D. Not computable with information available
18) In which of the following ranges you can find the Lower Control Limit of your control chart?
A. Does not exit (or 0) to under 0.0030
B. 0.0030 to under 0.0040
C. 0.0040 to under 0.05
D. Above 0.05
19) Investigation of the above data shows that:
A. Absenteeism is not a problem, it is in state of statistical control
B. Absenteeism is out of statistical control because you found one day out of the control limits
C. Absenteeism is out of statistical control because you found two days out of the control limits
D. Absenteeism is out of statistical control because you found three days out of the control limits
Homework Answers
17) In which of the following ranges you can find the Upper Control Limit of your control chart? Keep 4 decimals in all calculations.
B. 0.1536
18) In which of the following ranges you can find the Lower Control Limit of your control chart?
A. Does not exit (or 0) to under 0.0030
19) Investigation of the above data shows that:
B. Absenteeism is out of statistical control because you found one day out of the control limits
The calculations are:
| Sample size | 100 |
| Number of samples | 15 |
| Proportion defective | |
| Upper Control Limit, UCL | 0.1535 |
| Center | 0.0747 |
| Lower Control Limit, LCL | 0.0000 |
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