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    This document provides an overview of nursing administration. It defines administration as caring for or managing human and material resources to achieve common goals. Hospital administration specifically refers to managing a hospital organization. Administration has several key purposes including assisting with goal formulation, providing quality nursing care, promoting human relations, and conducting research. Principles of administration include oneness of leadership, specialization, hierarchy, morale, bureaucracy, and centralization of authority. Administrative skills are divided into technical, human, and conceptual categories. The roles of a hospital administrator involve managing relationships with patients, the community, and the organization itself across various functional areas.

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    This document provides an overview of nursing administration. It defines administration as caring for or managing human and material resources to achieve common goals. Hospital administration specifically refers to managing a hospital organization. Administration has several key purposes including assisting with goal formulation, providing quality nursing care, promoting human relations, and conducting research. Principles of administration include oneness of leadership, specialization, hierarchy, morale, bureaucracy, and centralization of authority. Administrative skills are divided into technical, human, and conceptual categories. The roles of a hospital administrator involve managing relationships with patients, the community, and the organization itself across various functional areas.

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    NURSING

    ADMINISTRATION
    Prepared by:

    Dr. Celeste A. Dimaculangan


    UNIT I – INTRODUCTION TO
    ADMINISTRATION
    A. Definition
    1. Administration
    - word administer is derived from the Latin word ad +
    ministraire which means to
    care for or look after people to manage
    - the organization and direction of human and material
    resources to achieve desired ends.
    - art and science of guidance, leadership and control of
    the efforts of a group of individual towards common goal.
    2. Hospital Administration
    - management of the hospital as an organization. It is
    made up of medical and health services managers and assistant
    administrators.

    3. Management
    - operational part of administration
    - getting things done through other people
    B. Nature of Administration
    1. it is universal - business, health care setting
    2. it is holistic - financial, employees, legal
    3. it is continuous and on-going process
    4. it is goal oriented – based VMO
    5. it is social and human nature – help the
    community (foundation, charity work, hospital
    6. it is dynamic - powerful, productive
    C. Purpose of Administration
    1. assist in the formulation of objectives
    2. helps provide high quality nursing care
    3. promotes human relations
    4. helps maintain discipline in organization
    5. maintains and develops good standard
    6. helps in conducting research
    D. Principles of Administration
    *According to Finer:
    1. Principle of Oneness
    - oneness of leadership that gives form to the whole
    aggregate of people.
    2. Principle of Specialization
    3. Principle of hierarchy and regimentation
    - denote authority from top to bottom
    4. Principle of morale
    - spirit of active devotion to the person working together
    for a common purpose.
    5. Principle of bureaucracy
    - it is administration without purpose, ethos, oneness or
    morale. It is the organizational form of personality equal to
    the individual person called the “Hollowmen”
    6. Centralization of authority and clean cut responsibility
    *According to Henri Faijol
    1. division of work
    2. authority, responsibility and accountability
    3. discipline – observance of rules, regulations, norms,
    decorum
    4. unity of command – subordinates should be supervised by
    a single supervisor to whom he should be accountable
    5. unity of direction – one supervisor to give directions to
    his or her subordinates
    6. remuneration – fair payment to personnel
    7. centralization – some amount of greater and larger
    authority resting with top level managers
    8. scalar chain of command – from the top to the lowest rank in
    the hierarchy
    9. order – proper and systematic arrangement of staff,
    materials
    10. Esprit de corps – sense of belonging – spirit of working
    together
    E. Attributes of Hospital Administration
    1. successful past record of efficient and effective management
    2. professional par excellence, committed to task
    3. possess high degree of conceptual skills and creative mind
    4. ability to direct the subordinates in goal achievements
    5. possess mental robustness and adequate tactfulness
    6. demonstrate a code of ethics within organization
    7. can withstand the adverse criticism and be able to take
    appropriate measures.
    8. clear and realistic good setting. Keen in professional
    growth.
    F. Administrative Skills

    A. Technical B. Human C. Conceptual

    1. Managerial skill 1. Leadership skill 1. Planning and decision


    2. Marketing skill 2. Interpersonal skill making skills
    3. Business skill 3. Conflict management 2. Innovative skill
    4. Finance and budgeting skill 3. Research oriented
    skill 4. Negotiating skill
    G. Roles of Hospital Administrator
    1. Role towards patient
    - physical needs, educational needs, clinical needs
    - safety needs
    - emotional need, staff attitude, patient satisfaction
    2. Role towards Community
    - supporting community health needs
    - supporting primary health care
    - outreach services
    - community education
    - integration with other health care organization
    3. Role towards the Organization
    - patient care services(patient safety measures)
    - legal and statutory responsibility (constitutional role
    ethics)
    - public relation
    - marketing management (advertisement , payment mode,
    promotion, billing, incentives
    - management information system – medical
    records/inventory management, patient feedback system,
    billing and payment
    - staff management(wages,salary,training)
    - finance and budgeting – accounting, expenditure,
    distribution heads, recurrent capital
    - hospital safety
    - quality management
    - planning and decision making
    - logistics and supplies
    -material management – material planning, quality
    assessment, procurement, receipts, storage, distribution,
    inventory, transportation, quality assessment

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