This document defines and discusses various types of administration including public administration, hospital administration, management, and nursing administration. It provides definitions of administration from several authors focusing on organizing human and material resources to accomplish common goals. The document also defines the roles and responsibilities of a nurse administrator which include overall responsibility for nursing care, establishing procedures, developing staff, budgeting, communicating, scheduling, supervising, analyzing treatment, troubleshooting, consulting, and team building.
6. Public administration…
Public administration consist of getting
the work of Government done by
coordinating efforts of people, so that
they can work together to accomplish
their set tasks.
7. Hospital administration
Hospital administration encompasses
organizing and supporting the patient's
total medical care during an episode of
illness in the hospital, and is
responsible for integrating the various
functions and services.
8. Management
Management may be defined as the art of
securing maximum result with a minimum
of effort so as to secure maximum
prosperity and happiness for both employer
and employee and gave the public the best
possible service.
-John Mee F 1963.
10. Nursing Administration
Nursing service is an enabling process
for achieving the laid down goals and
objective of an institution that is
related to nursing.
11. Nursing services where nurses act as an
administrator forms plans and policies,
rules and regulation to render high
quality of nursing care in which
physical,psychological,spiritual and
psychosocial needs of the patients are
met and to render high quality of
nursing care.
12. Definition
Nurse administrator is that person who is charged
with the financial decision making, staff
administration and policy making as concerns
nurses in an establishment.
Nurse manager is an administrative position,
within the medical profession and whose holder is
charged with planning, organizing, staffing,
directing & controlling.
13. RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSE ADMINISTRATOR
Nurse administrators can interact directly with
patients but often are assigned to a more managerial role.
1. Overall responsibility for nursing patient care.
2. Establishing and documenting administrative procedure
for the nursing team.
3. Providing the development of nursing staff.
4. Budgeting & maintaining practice & standard guidelines.
14. 5. Communication between practice & nursing staff.
6. Scheduling & Supervising.
7. Analyzing nursing treatment & diagnosis decisions.
8. Troubleshooting and patient consultation.
9. Team building exercises & employee counseling.