Assessment of the Nurse Medication Administration Workflow Process

Pseudocode 1

MAP computer simulation model high-level pseudocode.

Setup procedure

 Initialize variables

 Draw floor layout of units

 Generate RN agents and patients for each unit

 Create RN characteristics

Simulate procedure

 (RN, RN.task) = pick from the front of priority queue

 if RN.task = 0 then go-to-next-room

  next-task = ask RN to do-task RN.task

 add (RN, next-task, duration-of next-task) to priority

 queue until no more patients left

do-task [task] function

 if task is a conditional

  result = run conditional

  next-task = pick based on result and workflow

 else

  next-task = pick based on workflow

 return next-task