2. All students of hospital administration
must be knowledgeable of the
surgery department.
•Objectives
•Physical and personnel requirements
•How it should function
3. Learning Objectives
• Define objectives of surgery
department
• Discuss physical requirements in
relation to objectives
• Discuss personnel requirements in
relation to objectives
4. Learning Objectives
• Explain importance of manual of
policies and procedures
• Discuss competencies required of
department chairman
• Discuss present trends in
management of surgery
department
5. Learning Objectives
• Define objectives of the clinical
department (Surgery, ENT, IM, OB-
GYN, OPHTHA, etc.)
• Discuss physical requirements in
relation to objectives
• Discuss personnel requirements in
relation to objectives
6. Learning Objectives
• Explain importance of manual of
policies and procedures
• Discuss competencies required of
department chairman
• Discuss present trends in
management of the clinical
department (Surgery, ENT, OB-
GYN, IM, etc)
8. Department of Surgery
Goal
To provide proper medical service to
all patients with surgical diseases
who seek consultation and
treatment in the hospital.
9. Department of Surgery
Main Objectives
1. To examine all patients with a
possible surgical diseases and
afterwhich, to make a
rational and accurate
diagnosis.
14. Department of Surgery
Physical Requirements
1. Operating rooms
2. Surgical patient beds
3. Consultation rooms in
3.1 Outpatient department
3.2 Emergency room
15. Department of Surgery
Physical Requirements
•Location within the hospital
•Quantity
•Size
•Design
•Equipment
dependent on
16. Department of Surgery
Physical Requirements
General Determining Factors:
•Government regulations
•usual and anticipated increase in patient
load
•needs and expectations of the community
•allowance for expansion
•cost-benefit considerations
19. Department of Surgery
The Operating Room
Place where
diagnostic and therapeutic
surgical procedures
are performed
20. The Operating Room
Siting
Most important consideration:
Accessibility to patients of surgery
department
Not far from the emergency
trauma unit
21. The Operating Room
Number of Rooms
Most important consideration:
Cost-benefit analysis
usual patient load of surgical
department
to
investment in spaces
22. The Operating Room
Number of Operating Rooms
Several department ORs
vs
One operating room complex?
One complex is better
cost-benefit wise!
23. The Operating Room
Design
one that will best achieve
• effectiveness and efficiency
• sterility standards and requirements
•traffic flow
•from outside to inside
•from dirty to clean zones to sterile areas
30. Department of Surgery
Personnel Requirements
At least
• Surgeons
• Nurses
• Nursing Aides
Adequate in number and in competency
31. Department of Surgery
Personnel Requirements
General Determining Factors:
•Government regulations
•usual and anticipated increase in patient
load
•needs and expectations of the community
•cost-benefit considerations
32. Department of Surgery
Personnel Requirements
For training objective
- trainors
For research objective
- researchers
Adequate in number and in competency
38. Department of Surgery
The Chairperson
Qualifications: Must
•Be a surgeon
•Know administration or management
•Know andragogy
•Know how to do research
consider objectives, activities, personnel
40. Department of Surgery
Manual of Policies and Procedures
Importance
•Guide for present and future staff
•Promotes effectiveness and efficiency
Should be reviewed and revised periodically
44. Department of Surgery
The Trends
Objectives NOT limited to service.
Training and research are usually
included because they contribute
to perpetuation and
quality of service.
45. Department of Surgery
The Trends
All training programs must be accredited
by the Specialty Board or
Organization.
Accredited training programs attract
trainees more than
non-accredited ones.
46. Department of Surgery
The Trends
ONLY board certified surgeons are
accepted for active and permanent
staff in the hospitals.
Medicolegal reasons
47. Department of Surgery
The Trends
Operating room complex is the trend and
this is being managed by an
operating room management team.