Passing an object (medication) from a Staff to a Patient

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Lenny C asked Feb 25, '21 Ben Wilson edited Feb 28, '21

Passing an object (medication) from a Staff to a Patient

Hi,

I would like to have an MD pass medication to a patient. It seems that the only way for "Load"/"Unload" to work is for the "Create Object" event to be in the same stack of processflow events as the person taking the medication.

I have made a workaround where the MD passes the object to a queue, where it is destroyed, and instantaneously a new object is created in the patient flow.

Is there a proper way to do this? File attached:

passmedication.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.3

flexsim 20.1.3 healthcare staff patient patient activity

passmedication.fsm (72.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2021-02-25T13:38:18Z

David Chan answered Feb 25, '21 Ben Wilson edited Feb 28, '21

There are many ways to model this. If the visual of the medicine is not important, you can just put in a delay to represent the passing of the medicine to the patient. I have done a model in using HC module. Please check.

passmedication_1_DC.fsm

David

passmedication-1-dc.fsm (61.4 KiB)

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Lenny C commented · Feb 26, 2021 at 06:44 AM

Thanks David! The process flow helped! Moving the object to a patient as destination andsplitting the tokens seems to be very elegant. Thanks again.

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Tee Hiett commented · Feb 26, 2021 at 10:40 PM

@david.chan Nice demo Thanks. What does the Question Mark do in the "Process Medicine" Activity patient.Staff?

Thanks,

Tee

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Tee Hiett commented · Feb 27, 2021 at 03:32 PM

It's allowing the code to return a null if the label Staff doesn't exist on the patient, without generating an exception.

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Tee Hiett Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Feb 27, 2021 at 04:43 PM

Thanks, @jason.lightfoot

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