Process flowchart
Create a process flowchart that maps patient movement through your prototyped ER, applying human-factors principles.
Patient-flow process flowchart using standard symbols, annotated with one human-factors principle, and verified against the Wednesday floor plan.
- 1Do thisCreate a process flowchart that maps patient movement through your prototyped ER, applying human-factors principles.
- 2Use this resource
- 3Submit thisLab report: Patient-flow process flowchart using standard symbols, annotated with one human-factors principle, and verified against the Wednesday floor plan.
- 4Submit it here
- 1CMSD website. Go to clevelandmetroschools.org and click the Clever button.
- 2Clever. Clever opens. Sign in if it asks.
- 3Microsoft (district) login. Use your district Microsoft account (the one for school).
- 4Schoology. Open Schoology, then your class, then Assignments, and find the file named below.
The file to submit is named: Biotechnology for Health (Biomedical Innovations) › Design brief, floor plan logic, staffing, process flow, safety, and human factors. › Lab reportOpen Schoology
- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning — make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure — the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities — you open it through Schoology.
Minute-by-minute · 80-minute block
💡 Big idea: A flowchart is a verification tool: it lets you check whether the physical layout you designed actually works for the people who must move through it.
- 0-10Review standard flowchart symbols: process, decision, start/end, and connector
- 10-25List every patient-facing decision point in your ER layout
- 25-50Draw the flowchart using correct symbols, tracing the full patient path
- 50-65Apply one human-factors principle: annotate where you changed a step to reduce error or confusion
- 65-75Verify the flowchart matches your floor plan; fix any mismatches
- 75-80Submit the process flowchart
- • Yesterday you built the physical layout. Today you trace the patient path through it and verify that it actually works.
- • A process flowchart using standard symbols is a rigorous way to expose hidden decision points and error traps.
- • You will also apply one human-factors principle -- a research-backed rule about how people move and decide under stress.
- • Flowcharting is a core Lab SOP skill that appears in the WebXam 072125 Lab SOPs strand.
- 1List the decision points a patient encounters in your design.
- 2Draw the flowchart with standard symbols for steps and decisions.
- 3Apply one human-factors principle to reduce error or confusion.
- 4Verify the flow matches your floor plan.
- 5Submit the process flowchart.
- • Your flowchart uses correct symbols and matches the floor plan.
- • You applied at least one human-factors principle.
- • The standard flowchart symbols for process steps, decisions, and terminal points.
- • What a human-factors principle is and how applying one to a flow reduces error or confusion.
- • How to verify that a patient-flow flowchart matches the corresponding floor plan.
Your PLTW work today
Design brief, floor plan logic, staffing, process flow, safety, and human factors. · Process flowchart
Day 4 of this lesson. Open this exact section in myPLTW (reached through Schoology), then do the work below.
Do this: Open Problem 1 in your myPLTW course shell and locate the process-flow or human-factors activity to review the flowchart format and symbol key.
Mark the flowchart activity complete in your tracker after submitting your completed diagram.
The floor-plan model is done; by end of today your patient-flow process flowchart with correct symbols and one applied human-factors principle should be submitted.
Process flowchart using correct symbols, annotated with one applied human-factors principle, and verified against the floor plan.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment — this page only gives direction. Submit producibles on Schoology.
Today's PLTW tracker
Check things off as you work, then submit. This tells Mr. Mendoza how you're doing so he can help the class. It does not replace turning in your producible on Schoology.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
Design brief, floor plan logic, staffing, process flow, safety, and human factors. · Process flowchart
Open Problem 1 in your myPLTW course shell and locate the process-flow or human-factors activity to review the flowchart format and symbol key.
The floor-plan model is done; by end of today your patient-flow process flowchart with correct symbols and one applied human-factors principle should be submitted.
This is how Mr. Mendoza sees the class keeping pace with PLTW. Be honest, it only helps if it is accurate.
🎯 Create a process flowchart that maps patient movement through your prototyped ER, applying human-factors principles.
- List the decision points a patient encounters in your design.
- Draw the flowchart with standard symbols for steps and decisions.
- Apply one human-factors principle to reduce error or confusion.
- Verify the flow matches your floor plan.
- Submit the process flowchart.
Lab report: Patient-flow process flowchart using standard symbols, annotated with one human-factors principle, and verified against the Wednesday floor plan.
Submit on SchoologyUpload by 11:29 PM for full credit.
| Task | Who |
|---|---|
| List the decision points a patient encounters in your design. | _______ |
| Draw the flowchart with standard symbols for steps and decisions. | _______ |
| Apply one human-factors principle to reduce error or confusion. | _______ |
| Verify the flow matches your floor plan. | _______ |
| Submit the process flowchart. | _______ |
Working solo? Put your own name in "Who" for every row.
- Your flowchart uses correct symbols and matches the floor plan.
- You applied at least one human-factors principle.
Teacher-posted resources
Classroom documents for this lesson. Ones marked “Open the file” open right here; the rest are posted in Schoology. Use the label on each card to choose the right move.
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Prototype planning and project management by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/1.1_Emergency-Room; keywords:gantt, project management. Score 142. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Use this if you were absent, got stuck, or need another pass before you submit the lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Prototype planning and project management by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/00_Problem-Overview; keywords:gantt, design. Score 134. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Prototype planning and project management by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/1.1_Emergency-Room; keywords:design. Score 134. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
How to get there: open the CMSD website, click Clever, sign in with your Microsoft (district) account, then open Schoology from Clever.
Lab & supplies
WebXam practice
Cumulative WebXam review
A quick mixed-review pulling questions from earlier units plus today, so the WebXam material stays fresh.
Where this leads — careers
What today's skills lead to. These are real health-science careers this course builds toward. Tap one to see, on the US Department of Labor's O*NET site, what the job actually involves, what it pays, and how fast it is growing.
What to do if you were absent
Today is individual PLTW work, so do exactly what we did in class, from home: complete the same PLTW target above, then submit your Lab report.
Open Schoology (CMSD) and keep goingHow to get there: open the CMSD website, click Clever, sign in with your Microsoft (district) account, then open Schoology from Clever.
Class still runs. Complete the online activity above (it's self-guided). Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
NGSS Engineering Design- CompleteEvery required part of the artifact is present, nothing left blank.
- AccurateThe science and the data are correct and match the evidence.
- Scientific reasoningYou explain your claim with evidence and reasoning (CER), not just an answer.
- Professional communicationClear, organized, labeled, and written the way a clinician or scientist would.
- SubmittedTurned in the right way (Schoology for routine work) and confirmed.
Drop your Thu, Feb 11, 2027 · Process flowchart here. Use a clear file name (your initials + project). Routine work still goes to Schoology (via the CMSD portal).
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