Does 'after Hours' do 'serious' or is it just for fun? - should I have posted this in another category like 'Health' ? - oh well never mind I will post it here anyways.
You are given a magic wand and made yourself boss of your local HSE General Hospital A&E department and you have been given tasks to get waiting times down , reduce the number of trolleys in the corridors (maybe even eliminate them from the corridors totally) and just get the department running efficiently with the same amount of staff - how are you going to do it? - or how would you achieve it?
You are also tasked with sorting out abusive patients (like drunks etc) what are you going to do with them? (they are being a nuisance to the staff and to other patients in the waiting room) are you going to treat them or are you going to chuck them out of the department.
You are going to have to organise patients as part of your efficiency situation. Are you going to see to patients in the order they come into the department or are you going to prioritise older and vulnerable patients over other patients and get them out of the department first and home (or find them a bed on the ward if possible) - or are you going to treat them on the basis of severity of what they have come into the department for?
You have some patients that are in the department. You have already assessed them (triage etc , checked their blood pressure and bloods and their affliction / wound whatever) and you deem that they really do not need to be in the department and that their own local GP can see to their needs. are you going to treat them or send them home?
You have ambulances building up outside your department with patients in the back of them - are you going to offload / free up the ambulances first over everone else thats waiting or just treat everyone in order of when they come in or severity?
