A Short Summary: 9 Functions Of The Hospital
9 Functions of the Hospital:
1. To provide care for the sick and injured: This can be done by accommodating them according to their physical condition and financial status. When we talk of physical condition, we mean that some patients are seriously ill and require admission in Intensive Care Unit while others are not so seriously ill and can be' accommodated elsewhere (e.g. in deluxe room, single room with AC and without AC, semi-private room and general ward) according to their financial status. There may be some patients who may require isolation. In that case, they should be kept in isolated rooms, but the building should be kept always in a good state of repair, pleasing appearance and providing the patient every mental and physical comfort. …show more content…
Training of physicians, nurses and other personnel: They receive their training in both theory and practice in approved schools and colleges. Therefore, a hospital being a complex and specialized organization must employ highly trained personnel so that they may train others. Particularly in the branch of medical and paramedical education,different associations/councils play very important roles. They make surveys of hospitals and accord their approval. Only these approved hospitals can provide training in medicine, nursing, dietetics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, administration, medical social work, medical record library, X-ray and medical record technology, etc. Capable boys and girls should be attracted to such courses as a career which offers them fair remuneration, opportunities for self-development and reasonable …show more content…
However, a hospital is a unique institution as it includes all activities present in each of the above-mentioned groups. The difference between administrative work in hospitals and in other organizations can be attributed to the existence of the following conditions peculiar to hospitals:
1. The consumers of the services provided in a hospital (the patients) are physically or mentally ill and are rendered services within the four walls of the hospital. As compared with most other institutions of business, government and education, this is an unusual situation and presents quite different problems of management.
2. The customers of the hospital (the patients) have individual needs and require highly personalized and custom-made services, the diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive services provided by physicians, nurses and technicians, with the aid of expensive and specialized equipment’s and medication are needs of each individual
1. To provide care for the sick and injured: This can be done by accommodating them according to their physical condition and financial status. When we talk of physical condition, we mean that some patients are seriously ill and require admission in Intensive Care Unit while others are not so seriously ill and can be' accommodated elsewhere (e.g. in deluxe room, single room with AC and without AC, semi-private room and general ward) according to their financial status. There may be some patients who may require isolation. In that case, they should be kept in isolated rooms, but the building should be kept always in a good state of repair, pleasing appearance and providing the patient every mental and physical comfort. …show more content…
Training of physicians, nurses and other personnel: They receive their training in both theory and practice in approved schools and colleges. Therefore, a hospital being a complex and specialized organization must employ highly trained personnel so that they may train others. Particularly in the branch of medical and paramedical education,different associations/councils play very important roles. They make surveys of hospitals and accord their approval. Only these approved hospitals can provide training in medicine, nursing, dietetics, pharmacy, physiotherapy, administration, medical social work, medical record library, X-ray and medical record technology, etc. Capable boys and girls should be attracted to such courses as a career which offers them fair remuneration, opportunities for self-development and reasonable …show more content…
However, a hospital is a unique institution as it includes all activities present in each of the above-mentioned groups. The difference between administrative work in hospitals and in other organizations can be attributed to the existence of the following conditions peculiar to hospitals:
1. The consumers of the services provided in a hospital (the patients) are physically or mentally ill and are rendered services within the four walls of the hospital. As compared with most other institutions of business, government and education, this is an unusual situation and presents quite different problems of management.
2. The customers of the hospital (the patients) have individual needs and require highly personalized and custom-made services, the diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive services provided by physicians, nurses and technicians, with the aid of expensive and specialized equipment’s and medication are needs of each individual