Hospital organisation

1. ORGANISATION OF HOSPITAL
Mrs. Rupinder Kaur
Lecturer (MSN)
ACN.

2. INTRODUCTION
• It varies from hospital to hospital.
• The governing body of a hospital usually called
the board of trustees or directors is
responsible for the policies of the institution .
• Directly under the governing body is the head
of the hospital, the administrator or director
to whom authority and responsibility for
management is delegated.

3. • Administrator/ director
• Business professional
Management care

4. Business management
• Administration
• Accounting
• Maintenance
• Engineering
• Housekeeping
• purchasing

5. Professional care
• It is delegated to different departments:
• Medical
• Nursing
• Paramedical
• Pathology
• Pharmacy
• Radiology
• Rehabilitation

6. Medical deptt.
• Various clinical services:
• Medicine, surgery, gynaecology, obstetrics,
pediatrics, eye , ENT, dental, orthopaedics,
neurology, urology, cardiology, psychiatry,
skin, V.D, plastic surgery, nuclear medicine,
etc.
• Medical superintendent is a doc. Who has
control over all the medical departments.

7. Nursing deptt.
• Nursing service and nursing education.
• Safe , comprehensive, effective, and well
organized care by Nursing Superintendents,
Assistant Nursing Superintendents, head
nurses, staff nurses.
• All these above are registered nurses.
• Others- Auxiliary personnel.

8. Nursing education
• To prepare professional nurses
• To uplift standards of nursing by in-service
education
• Principal, director of nursing education.
• Professors, tutors, clinical instructors.

9. Paramedical deptt.
• Pathology: responsible for making tests and
studies on blood, sputum, faeces, body fluids
and tissues. Laboratories:
• Bacteriology . Blood Bank
• Biochemistry
• Hematology . Histopathology
• Parasitological
• serology

10. Pharmacy deptt.
• For selecting , purchasing, compounding,
storing, and dispensing all drugs and
medications.

11. Physical medicine/ rehabilitation
• Treats pts who have functional disabilities.
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Vocational training

12. Radiology deptt
• X-ray
• Radium, radioactive cobalt, and other
radioactive therapy.
• Radioactive isotopes therapy
• Radioactive isotopes tracers or uptake studies.

13. Dietary department
• Food service according to need of patient and
doctor prescription.

14. Non professional services
• Admitting deptt
• Personnel deptt: - recruitment, Interviews,
promotion, termination, inservice training
prog., incentives , safety & health prog.,
recreation.
• Purchasing deptt.
• Medical records
• Accounts office

15. • Housekeeping: to keep hospital clean
• Laundry
• Mechanical deptt : electricity, water air
• Maintenance deptt: carpenter, painter,
welders, gardeners etc.
• Central supply department: to furnish &
prepare other depts with supplies eg.
Syringes, needle, trays etc.

16. • Social service: assist to obtain financial aid for
patients. It is a link between patient &
community agencies.
• Pastoral care : meets the spiritual needs of the
patients

17. Others
• OT- part of surgical deptt.
• OPD- out patient Deptt.
• Emergency deptt.
• Intensive care
• Immediate care
• Ambulatory care, etc.