Cancer Hospital Stockpiles: Strategizing for an Efficient and Sufficient Inventory List of Essential Items

PURPOSE The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care systems worldwide, resulting in critical shortages of essential items and materials. The available guidelines are of little use for cancer hospitals in low-income and low-middle–income countries. They have been designed for community hospitals serving in a centralized health care network. This study aimed to draft and field test a framework to establish a list of essential supplies that should be stockpiled for subsequent waves of the COVID-19 virus by a tertiary care cancer hospital in a low-middle–income country. MATERIALS AND METHODS A model was formulated using the consumption trends during the peak month of the first wave of COVID-19 infection to compile a list of essential materials and supplies. Furthermore, costing analyses were conducted to determine the financial benefits of stockpiling. RESULTS A proposed list of items to stockpile, including personal protective equipment, radiology supplies, laboratory reagents, medication, and oxygen, was shared with the hospital administration. However, the hospital administration only accepted the proposals for stockpiling personal protective equipment and oxygen. CONCLUSION This paper provides a framework and strategies that cancer hospitals and health care systems can modify and use as per individual, institutional requirements and specifications for stockpiling essential items during the COVID-19 or other similar pandemics.

Management Practices in Hospital Administration: a study of the Challenges Faced by the Healthcare Organisation in South India

This paper accentuates the need for quality assurance and standardization norms for hospital administration which is the need of the hour. Lack of effective administration practices in the hospital and hospitality sector necessitate the need for a total quality management approach in the Healthcare Sector. Application of quality control systems is a vital aspect that hospitals in South India cannot disregard. It would lead the South in a new direction by ensuring quality and enhancing customer satisfaction. Hence, this paper makes an attempt to understand the hospital management practices in South India effectively. The research addresses Medical Tourism as a ‘cost effective’ private medical care initiative in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialised treatment. This process is being facilitated by the corporate sector involved in medical care as well as the tourism industry – both private and public. There is also a constant effort taken by corporate hospitals to support medical tourism to its fullest potential. India today has copious opportunities to compete with other developed nations and building a quality health care system of its own.

STRATEGIES TO ALLOW FAMILY VISITS TO ACUTE CARE UNITS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

During pandemics, hospital administration does not allow family members to visit their loved ones. There is a need to develop standards and processes that may be followed when a family member enters an ICU or ward to prevent cross infection. These rules should also be put in place during epidemics to ensure that family have safe access to their patients.

Barriers of Professional Autonomy among Arab-Speaking Countries during Covid-19 Pandemic

Objectives: The aims of the study are to determine barriers of nursing autonomy among Arab-Speaking countries during Covid-19 pandemic and to determine difference in professional autonomy levels among Arab-Speaking countries and work place. Methods: Data collected from December 12 2020 to March 15 2021 by Google form survey. Cross-sectional design was used in the present study .A purposive sample of 708 nurses who had met the study's inclusion criteria were targeted. Data were analyzed through the use of IBM-Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17, in which descriptive and inferential statistical measures were employed. Results: The results of the study showed no deference in professional autonomy among Arab speaking countries P =0.826 and work place (P=0.826). Most common barriers of professional autonomy are absence of law protecting professional duties(35.6%) which was perceived by of the study subjects, followed by the policy of health (30.4%),followed by hospital administration style (26.4%) and domination or physicians authority (29.9%). Conclusion: Most common barriers of professional autonomy are absence of law protecting professional duties, the policy of health care sector, domination of physician’s authority and hospital administration style. This result reflects highlights the importance of removing all obstacles to upgrade nurse’s professional autonomy in the covered Arab-speaking counties.

Understanding Complaints Made About Surgical Departments in a UK District General Hospital

BACKGROUND Patient complaints are increasingly recognised to provide a valuable insight into patients’ experience of healthcare. Being local and subjective, they can bring to light previously under-appreciated causes of patient dissatisfaction. The focus of surgical care is usually an intervention, and the nature of complaints made about surgical care may vary substantially from those in non-surgical specialties. This may have specific implications for quality improvement in surgical departments. This study aims to investigate the causes of patient dissatisfaction in surgical care. METHODS We retrospectively examined the content and frequency of patient complaints received by surgical departments at a UK district general hospital in the calendar year 2017. Second-hand reports of complaints, documented by members of the hospital’s complaints department, were collated from a prospectively maintained database and categorised by content. RESULTS 399 complaints were received over the study period. These related to the care of 327 different patients. One complaint was generated for every 111 patient encounters. 91% were made by the patient, and 8.8% by a family member. Complaints cited communication with hospital staff in 25% of cases, out-of-hospital delays in 24%, clinical issues in 22%, hospital administration in 16%, and in-hospital delays in 10%. Post-operative symptoms and complications accounted for only 2% of complaints. 26% of complaints resulted in the rescheduling of an operation or clinic appointment. 17% prompted internal action within the surgical department to investigate and learn from the incident. CONCLUSION The profile of complaints made about surgical departments is similar to that of non-surgical departments in other studies. Clinical issues represented only the third largest cause of complaints. More complaints implicated patient-staff communication, and around half implicated management-related issues. Improving staff communication training, clinical standards and hospital administration continue to represent opportunities to enhance patients’ overall experience of surgical care.

The challenges of formal volunteering in hospitals

The role and tasks performed by hospital volunteers (HV), their relationship with other stakeholders and the management of volunteers, are controversial topics, not widely explored in literature. Through an exploratory study, which incorporated the collection and analysis of qualitative data, involving 46 interviews with volunteers, staff and hospital administration from three hospitals in Portugal, we analyze hospital volunteers, as well as the tasks they perform, how these tasks are assigned, and how they relate to other stakeholders. As a result, we conclude that the job definition of HV is generic, open to different interpretations and that the assigned functions of HV are not known from all stakeholders. This problem can have negative repercussions in the relationship between volunteers and health professionals, potentially fostering conflict. Nevertheless, most respondents are satisfied with the current format of volunteer management.

Influence of Intercourse on the Quality of Adolescent Health

Bahar Bima Putra. 2021B0016. Department of Public Health. Faculty of Pharmacy, Health, Hospital Administration & Radiology. IIK STRADA INDONESIA. Kediri. 2021. Title "The Effect of Intercourse on the Quality of Adolescent Health". Advisor I Muhammad Ali Sodik, M. AThis article contains about the influence of relationships on the quality of adolescent health, adolescence is a time where an individual experiences a transition from one stage to the next and experiences changes in emotions, bodies, behavior patterns, and is also full of problems adolescents tend to have a curiosity that is big. Promiscuity is one of the causes of the decline in the quality of adolescent health, many diseases that occur and even some lead to death. Therefore, the role of parents is very influential in controlling adolescent promiscuity.