Hospital Equipment Loan System

exercise, only the following items need be recorded, although in

practice there would be many more.

Description of Item

Number in

Stock

Cost of

Replacement

Wheelchair - Junior 2 £275

Wheelchair - Small 2 £295

Wheelchair - Medium 3 £320

Wheelchair - Large 2 £350

Crutch - Junior 4 £75

Crutch - Adult 6 £95

Elbow Crutch - Junior 2 £85

Elbow Crutch - Adult 4 £105

Neck Collar - Junior 3 £17.50

Neck Collar - Adult 5 £23.75

2. A suitable Item Code is to be devised which identifies each piece of

equipment individually, while also indicating what type of equipment

it is.

3. The data which is recorded should be sufficient to find the following

information for any individual piece of equipment:

whether it is available, being repaired or out on loan

if on loan, to whom and at what address or ward number

if on loan, when is it due to be returned or the loan renewed

if being repaired, when was it sent for repair

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4. It may be necessary to produce a hard copy of this information for

any piece of equipment.

5. Equipment is lent out for a 6-week period in the first place, but this

loan can be renewed for periods of 6 weeks.

6. A patient may have more than one piece of equipment on loan at a

particular time (e.g. 2 crutches and a wheelchair).

7. At any one time, about half the equipment will be out on loan and 1

or 2 pieces will be in for repair.

8. Names and addresses of patients are to be invented. Ward numbers

are W1 - W10.

9. At the end of each week, a full report of the location of all equipment

is to be produced. If equipment is due for return or renewal during

the following week, that patient will be contacted. There is a standard

letter for this purpose.

20.4 Test Plan The test plan should cover all parts of the system, including checking

that the number in stock cannot become negative, and that any one

piece of equipment is not logged as being in two places at once.

20.5 Requirements for the

Practical Exercise

Candidates are expected to design and implement an appropriate

computing system and provide sufficient documentation to

demonstrate the following practical skill.

Design

Implement / Test

Candidates are expected to produce brief documentation including

some or all of the following, as appropriate.

Design

definition of data requirements;

user interface design including output, forms and reports;

method of data entry, including validation;

record structure, file organisation and processing;

security and integrity of data;

system design.

Implementation / testing

hard copy output to prove the correct working of the system;

hard copy of solution, e.g. annotated program listing, spreadsheet

showing formulae.

This documentation is to be brought to the examination and handed

in with the candidates' answer script for Unit 3. A Cover Sheet,

signed by the teacher and the candidate, authenticating the work of

the candidate, must be attached to the documentation (see

Appendix B).