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    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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    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
    1.Accomodation and care of patients at a point in an illness when dependence on others is its most. 2.The care provided to the patients are not only curative but also promotive and rehabilative services. 3.The 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
    1.Highest possible quality of medical and nursing care of the patient. 2.To provide necessary equipment, essential drugs and other required for patient cure and care process. 3.Furnish most desirable environment substitutes as temporary home for the patient.

    4.Provide facility to meet the needs of the visitors and attendants. 5.Provide 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.

    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 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.

    4.Sanitary 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. 7.ventilation.

    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.

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