Acute care is a level of health care in. which a patient is treated for a brief but. severe episode of illness,for conditions. that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute. care is generally provided in a hospital. by a variety of clinical personnel using.
Under the lean manufacturing system, seven wastes are identified: overproduction, inventory, motion, defects, over-processing, waiting, and transport. Overproduction. The most serious of the wastes, overproduction can cause all other types of wastes and results in excess inventory.
type of waste is high-level waste, which includes spent fuel and waste from reprocessing. The industry must store this waste for at least a thousand years before it is safe enough to disperse into the environment. High-level waste causes problems, but luckily, it only accounts for about 1% of all radioactive waste.