The Miami Central Hotel has 420 rooms. Every day, the housekeepers clean any room that was occupied the night before. If a guest is checking out of the hotel, the housekeepers give the room a thorough cleaning to get it ready for the next guest. This takes 25 minutes. If a guest is staying another night, the housekeeper only “refreshes” the room, which takes 20 minutes. Each day, each housekeeper reports for her 6- hour shift, then prepares her cart. She pushes the cart to her floor and begins work. She usually has to restock the cart once per day; then she pushes it back to the storeroom at the end of the day and delivers dirty laundry, etc. Here is a timetable: 1) Arrive at work and stock cart (0.10 hrs). 2) Push cart to floor (0.10 hrs). 3) Take morning break (0.33 hrs). 4) Stop for lunch (0.50 hrs). 5) Restock cart (0.30 hrs). 6) Take afternoon break (0.33 hrs). 7) Push cart back to laundry and store items (0.33 hrs). Last night, the hotel was full (all 420 rooms were occupied). People are checking out of 200 rooms. Their rooms will need to be thoroughly cleaned. The other 200 rooms will need to be refreshed. a) How many minutes per day of actual room cleaning can each housekeeper do? b) Based on the given occupancy and the guests, checking out , the total number of minutes of room cleaning required by Miami Central Hotel today is _____ minutes (enter as a whole number) c) The number of housekeepers that are needed today to perform the room cleaning is ____ housekeeper (round response next whole number) d) The number of housekeepers that would be needed by the hotel for perfroming thorough cleaning of all rooms (assuming that all guests check out) is ____ housekeepers (round response to next whole number) Solution a) 1)Arrive at work and stock cart (0.10 hrs). 2) Push cart to floor (0.10 hrs). 3) Take morning break (0.33 hrs). 4) Stop for lunch (0.50 hrs). 5) Restock cart (0.30 hrs). 6) Take afternoon break (0.33 hrs). 7) Push cart back to laundry and store items (0.33 hrs) adding all thhis we will get 199 minutes taken by each housekeeper in all this its a 6 hours shift which means 360 minutes so actual cleaning per day id for 360-199 = 161 minutes b) 200*20 + 220*25 = 9500 minutes c)201 actual minute of ckeaning is done by one which means taking 20 minutes 10 rooms can be done and taking 25 minutes 8 rooms can be done. 200/8+ 220/10 = 25+22 = 47 housekeeper d)assuming all check outs of 420 rooms one housekeepr do 8 rooms 420/8 = 53.

1. This is a nursing informatics question...
What is “Meaningful Use”, why is it necessary and what impact does it have on informatics?
*Please give a detailed explanation and provide webpage urls if neccesary, thank you!
Solution
Meaningful Use refers to the use of electronic health record (EHR) technology that is certified
and used as per US government standards to maintain electronic health records of patients so that
these data can be exchanged between patients and the health care providers or between patients
and medical insurer providers when required.It is necessary because of the following reasons:
Meaningful Use is necessary for nursing practices as nurses understand patient,their needs and
their treatment profile better.Through use of meaningful use,data collected while dealing with
patients can be stored in a better way by making use of IT that can be communicated or shared
with appropriate personnel as and when required to carry out specific functions.
Meaningful Use has a positive impact on informatics.It creates an increased demand for IT.It
makes the use of IT in health care sectors more often as everything from dealing with a patient to
his treatment record can be accessed by health care experts from any part of the world.
Links are :
https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/746226_4
http://samples.jbpub.com/9781449691509/81982_CH14_Pass1.pdf
http://www.modernmedicine.com/modern-medicine/news/modernmedicine/modern-medicine-
feature-articles/informatics-how-nurses-will-tak?page=full