Towards Safer Hospitals : a Managerial Approach.
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Towards Safer Hospitals :
A Managerial Approach.
Dr. Mohamed Naguib Rateb
Visiting Professor at the Egyptian Military Medical Academy
King Khaled University – Jizan Community College ;
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
While hospitals are constructed, equipped, and operated for the benefit and welfare of human beings; they expose people to Many Risks. Health services organizations are known to be dangerous places, hospitals are the most complicated form of these organizations. The risks in the hospital environment has tremendously escalated and multiplied during the 20th Century; mainly due to unplanned and / or indiscriminate acquisition and operation of the very modern and up-to-date equipment. As this will continue in the foreseeable future; thus it would be predicted that hospitals will increasingly be more and more hazardous, risky and even unsafe workplaces for both providers of hospital care and the recipients of such care.
Though it is a seldom achieved objective even in the most sophisticated western hospitals; however, hospital safety is a legal, professional, technical, ethical, and moral obligation to hospital management.
This article tries to deal with this real managerial challenge through speculating, defining and analyzing the possible threats to hospital safety; then recommending a practical managerial approach that, when implemented, would make the hospitals less risky and more or less safer institutions.
Towards Safer Hospitals:
A Managerial Approach.
Dr. Mohamed Naguib Rateb
Visiting Professor at the Egyptian Military Medical Academy
King Khaled University – Jizan Community College;
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
I – INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND:
Hospitals, all over the world, are being as integral parts of human communities. Every civil community, nowadays, has its comprehensive hospital system of Governmental, or Non- Governmental, charity or...
A Managerial Approach.
Dr. Mohamed Naguib Rateb
Visiting Professor at the Egyptian Military Medical Academy
King Khaled University – Jizan Community College ;
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
While hospitals are constructed, equipped, and operated for the benefit and welfare of human beings; they expose people to Many Risks. Health services organizations are known to be dangerous places, hospitals are the most complicated form of these organizations. The risks in the hospital environment has tremendously escalated and multiplied during the 20th Century; mainly due to unplanned and / or indiscriminate acquisition and operation of the very modern and up-to-date equipment. As this will continue in the foreseeable future; thus it would be predicted that hospitals will increasingly be more and more hazardous, risky and even unsafe workplaces for both providers of hospital care and the recipients of such care.
Though it is a seldom achieved objective even in the most sophisticated western hospitals; however, hospital safety is a legal, professional, technical, ethical, and moral obligation to hospital management.
This article tries to deal with this real managerial challenge through speculating, defining and analyzing the possible threats to hospital safety; then recommending a practical managerial approach that, when implemented, would make the hospitals less risky and more or less safer institutions.
Towards Safer Hospitals:
A Managerial Approach.
Dr. Mohamed Naguib Rateb
Visiting Professor at the Egyptian Military Medical Academy
King Khaled University – Jizan Community College;
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
I – INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND:
Hospitals, all over the world, are being as integral parts of human communities. Every civil community, nowadays, has its comprehensive hospital system of Governmental, or Non- Governmental, charity or...