942 The hospital administrator at St Charles General must ap

9-42 The hospital administrator at St. Charles General
must appoint head nurses to four newly established
departments: urology, cardiology, orthopedics, and
obstetrics. In anticipation of this staffing problem,
she had hired four nurses: Hawkins, Condriac, Bardot, and Hoolihan. Believing in the quantitative
analysis approach to problem solving, the adminis-
trator has interviewed each nurse, considered his or
her background, personality, and talents, and devel-
oped a cost scale ranging from 0 to 100 to be used in
the assignment. A 0 for Nurse Bardot being assigned
to the cardiology unit implies that she would be per-
fectly suited to that task. A value close to 100, on the
other hand, would imply that she is not at all suited
to head that unit. The accompanying table gives the
complete set of cost figures that the hospital admin-
istrator felt represented all possible assignments.
Which nurse should be assigned to which unit?

What is the solution?

NURSE UROLOGY CARDIOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OBSTETRICS
Hawkins   28 18 15 75
Condriac   32 48 23 38
Bardot 51 36 24 36
Hoolihan   25 38 55 1

Solution

Hawkins will head Cardiology

Condriac wil head Urology

ON the cost scale nurse Bardot will cost the hospital 24 if he/she heads the orthopedics department , and this cost is the least for bardot against the remaining departments(if she/he\' assigned to them)

=>Bardot will head orthopedics

Likewise Hoolihan will head the obstetrics as he/she\'ll cost just 1 for this department

on the cost scale

=> Hoolihan will head Obstetrics