Problems In Hospital Administration

5. Nurses and certain other personnel must accept direction from both the matron and the physicians under whom they work closely every day. The human relations problems in such situations of dual authority are much more frequent, delicate, varied and complex than in organizations where this situation does not exist.

6. Handicapped by low wages, rigid discipline and some apprehension of exposure to disease, hospital personnel are expected to maintain a very high level of efficiency, as their functioning affects the lives of patients.

7. Another way in which the responsibilities and activities of the hospital administrator differ from his counterpart in other fields is in the amount and variety of training programmes that the hospital has to

Just as administration in hospitals differs from that in most other fields, similarly, public relations aspects and problems of hospitals are more pervasive, delicate and volatile. The human elements-the consumers (patients), producers of care and services (doctors, nurses and other personnel), the variety of community health agencies, the other competing hospitals, the people in the community (relatives and friends of the patients) - and the conditions and environment in which they are brought together (the hospital), present public relations problems of a sort and variety vastly different from those of most other

Hospital waste management is another peculiar condition to administrative work in hospital and has become a burning issue these days for hospital administrators, as increased awareness of health and its related problems amongst the general public has led to the demand for comprehensive health care facilities which in turn require frequent visits to hospitals by the patients to undergo various tests. This results in the escalating amount of hospital waste generation in the environment. This hospital waste is not like domestic waste, but a potentially hazardous waste. Its unscientific disposal can pose serious problems to the public in general, and the hospital administrator in particular, as it results in increased morbidity due to chemical and radioactive toxicity in the environment and transmission of various diseases. The conventional waste disposal method does not work at all. Hence the hospital administrator faces another peculiar problem what is not faced by a chief executive of a business organization or a hotel in disposing of the waste of their institutions.This distinctiveness of hospital administrations, call for a high degree of professionalcompetence to do justice to the job. It is, therefore, obvious that hospital administration should be entrusted to those who have the necessary training and the right kind of attitude to perform this vital