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Consider this argument. The clinic's second nurse should be posted to the dressing room and not to the registration counter. Patients waiting for a dressing sit for an hour or more while one nurse works through them, and several have left without being treated. At the counter the wait is seldom longer than ten minutes, and a clerk can be trained in a fortnight to do what is done there. Nobody but a nurse may change a dressing. Which of the following is the conclusion of the argument?

Competition practiceLogical / Critical
  • AThe clinic's second nurse should be posted to the dressing room rather than to the registration counter
  • BPatients waiting for a dressing sometimes leave the clinic without being treated
  • CA clerk can be trained in a fortnight to do the work of the registration counter
  • DOnly a nurse is permitted to change a dressing

Step-by-Step Solution

The posting is proposed in the first sentence and defended in the rest: the dressing room has the long wait and the patients who give up, the counter has a short wait and work a trained clerk could take over, and only a nurse can do the dressing work. Each of those is a reason for the posting, which makes the posting itself the conclusion.
Answer: A) The clinic's second nurse should be posted to the dressing room rather than to the registration counter

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