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Inpatient Department Overview and Roles

The document discusses inpatient care in a hospital setting. It defines inpatients as patients who are admitted to the hospital and require close monitoring during medical procedures and recovery. It highlights the importance of inpatient care in providing accommodation, curative, promotive and rehabilitative services to dependent patients away from their family environments. It also describes the functions of inpatient care including high quality medical and nursing services, necessary equipment and drugs, and a substitute home environment for patients.

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Inpatient Department Overview and Roles

The document discusses inpatient care in a hospital setting. It defines inpatients as patients who are admitted to the hospital and require close monitoring during medical procedures and recovery. It highlights the importance of inpatient care in providing accommodation, curative, promotive and rehabilitative services to dependent patients away from their family environments. It also describes the functions of inpatient care including high quality medical and nursing services, necessary equipment and drugs, and a substitute home environment for patients.

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  • Inpatient Department Introduction
  • Definitions and Importance
  • Functions of Inpatient Departments
  • Conveniences in IP Services
  • Vertical and Horizontal Circulation in Wards
  • Outline of Ward Floor Plans
  • Conclusion
  • References

In patient department

Swetha.s

Introduction
Inpatient and outpatient are common terms in the medical field that can be used to describe a variety of care or facilities available to patients. Some medical facilities, like hospitals, may offer both types of care, depending upon the needs of the persons involved.

DEFINITION Inpatient" means that the procedure requires the patient to be admitted to the hospital, primarily so that he or she can be closely monitored during the procedure and afterwards, during recovery.

IMPORTANCE
[Link] and care of patients at a point in an illness when dependence on others is its most. [Link] care provided to the patients are not only curative but also promotive and rehabilative services. [Link] care is to be provided in such a way that the patient feels at home inspite of pain, distress and being away from his family environment.

functions
[Link] possible quality of medical and nursing care of the patient. [Link] provide necessary equipment, essential drugs and other required for patient cure and care process. [Link] most desirable environment substitutes as temporary home for the patient.

[Link] facility to meet the needs of the visitors and attendants. [Link] highest degree of job satisfaction for the nursing and medical staff and to provide them with an opportunity for training and research.

Convenience of description in IP service.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Can be divided into Wards and rooms. Nursing station. Dietary service. Sanitary facilities and other requirements.

[Link] and rooms intensive care intermediate and isolation wards.

2. Nursing stations Janitors closet Dirty utility room Ward pantry

Requirement of nurses
1 nurse for 4 beds in standard wards. 1 nurse per bed in ICU. Nursing hierarchy. Nursing superintendent. Nursing supervisors. Unit nursing officers. Ward in charge. Ward clerk.

3. Dietary service.
Diets are an important part of medical care. It is assuming increasing importance as communicable diseases give way to stress diseases . A centralized dietary services is a must in all hospitals. Dietician. Canteen/cafeteria.

[Link] facilities and other requirements


1. Rooms have attached toilet facilities. 2. lighting. 3. Night lights. 4. Types of lights. 5. Call bells. 6. light and power sockets. [Link].

In patient dept in vertical circulation


Ward block
Other depts Other depts Other depts
Multi store block

Low block Low block

Low block

Arrangement of wards for horizontal circulation


1 or 2 floors

wards

Future wards

1 or 2 floors

wards

wards

1 or 2 floors

Other Depts

Other depts

out-patients dept administration

OUTLINE FLOOR PLANS FOR WARD FLOORS

conclusion
It is nerve centre of a hospital services is the inpatient ward, it provided to patients ,who have been admitted in the hospital, either for observation, investigation or treatment or a combination of all these.

References.
THE HOSPITAL ADMINSTRATOR- MA GEORGE. HOSPITAL PLANNING AND ADMINSTRATION-H M C MACAULAY.

In patient department Swetha.s
• Inpatient and outpatient are common terms in the medical field that can be used to describe a variety of care or facilit
DEFINITION Inpatient" means that the procedure requires the patient t
IMPORTANCE 1.Accomodation and care of patients at a point in an illness when dependence on others is its most. 2.The care
functions 1.Highest possible quality of medical and nursing care of the patient. 2.To provide necessary equipment, essenti
4.Provide facility to meet the needs of the visitors and attendants. 5.Provide highest degree of job satisfaction for the
Convenience of description in IP service. • Can be divided into 1. Wards and rooms. 2. Nursing station. 3. Dietary servic
1.Wards and rooms  intensive care  intermediate and  isolation wards.
2. Nursing stations Janitors closet Dirty utility room Ward pantry
Requirement of nurses • 1 nurse for 4 beds in standard wards. • 1 nurse per bed in ICU. Nursing hierarchy. Nursing s

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