General Principal of Hospital Practice and patient Care

Modern hospital treatment is based on team work, it is essential that the student should appreciate the technologist role and that the importance of co-operation with wards and other departments. The students should be attached to wards or the accident and emergency department for a definite training period. Hospital procedure: Hospital staffing and organization, records relating to patients and departmental statistic, professional attitude of the technologist to patient and other members of the staff, medico legal aspects, accident in the department, appointment organization, minimizing waiting time, out patient and follow up clinics, stock taking and stock keeping. Care of the patient: First contact with patients in the department, management of chair and stretcher patients, aids for this management for the unconscious patient, elementary hygiene, personal cleanliness, hygiene in relation to patient (for example clean linen and receptacles), nursing care, temperature, pulse and respiration, essential care of the patient who has a tracheotomy, essential care of the patient who has a colostomy, bedpans and urinals, simple application of a sterile dressing. First aid and infection control guidelines included.