You’ve been recruited by the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to act as the head triage nurse for a large city’s hurricane response team. One of your main duties is to decide which nurses will cover which facilities in the overall relief effort. Because most nursing duties will have to change during this shift in personnel, you decide to divide the group based on years of experience. Your nurse’s aide carries out a brief survey of all the personnel available (100 nurses) and gives you a list of the number of years of experience for each (see Table 2-8). Find the quartiles of this distribution, and assign a role to each nurse. For example, the nurses with the least amount of experience should be assigned to the rescue team, and the ones with the most experience should be assigned to the intensive care unit (ICU).

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Number of Years' Experience 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rescue Team Number Number of of Years' Nurses Experience 15 12 10 13 9 15 8 18 8 20 9 25 6 32 5 35 5 36 5 40 Coordinated Hurricane Response Stadium Hospital Number of Nurses 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 ICU