APPLICATION: CREATING A FLOWCHART

 APPLICATION: CREATING A FLOWCHART
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Posted: April 24, 2018
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INTRODUCTION
Hospitals, like any other institution in the society, has employees and clients who interact on a daily basis. The medical staff gets to share their expertise in giving service to the patients. Every process in the hospital requires logical steps that are guided to ensure compliance with professional ethical regulations and efficiency of the facility in assisting the sick to get well. This paper looks at the algorithmic steps that are taken at the hospital when a patient enters the hospital to the time they leave for recuperation.

Step 1: Reception

Proper registration is supposed to take place at the hospital once a new patient checks in. This process is conducted at the front desk by the hospital admission staff, who provide information regarding the geography of the area to the patient. This direction is meant to help the patients to get the right direction to the sections of the hospital that are relevant to their conditions. The patient will be formally registered with the hospital, and if the patient has regularly been treated at the facility, his or her files shall be prepared for the doctor’s review.

Registration and admission is done digitally, through the hospital intranet-served system, which lets people with access codes review the patient’s history at will. The hospital policy allows the admission staff to issue receipts with a unique access number for each patient in a way that is encoded for privacy reasons.

In order to admit a patient, the admission staff need to determine if the patient is a regular or a new one. In either case, personal information is crucial, including patient history, which may be given by the patient or caregiver.

Step 2: Evaluation of condition of the patient and diagnosis

The reception nurses will evaluate the state of the patient; whether they need emergency treatment, otherwise, they will be directed to proceed with standard hospital procedure, such as queuing for a service, if necessary. However, whenever an emergency is encountered, the patients are sent to the emergency rooms where quicker and more delicate attention can be given to them.  The hospital holds a policy to measure the blood group, count, pressure, and sugar levels, and BMI for every patient at the time of admission. This information is stored in the hospital database, as fed from the universal digital health kiosk. This information is mandatory before any person can be put under any sort of medication.

For the regular patients who have reported for emergencies, their files containing their medical history shall be supplied to the attending practitioners; the doctors and nurses for evaluation of and stabilization shall be conducted in the swiftest manner possible. The nurses shall provide the necessary support to the patient, such as putting them on the drip, preparation for surgery if one is due, or injecting them with tranquilizers if need be.

While the stabilization process continues for the people with emergencies, the laboratory staff should be allowed access to assess and give their opinion about any diagnosis that may help to avoid deterioration of the condition. This process should allow the doctors to understand any possible medical concerns that may hinder or counter recovery of the patient. Relatives could be contacted, if the patient is unconscious to give any history of allergies. This part is especially important for patients who have been brought to the hospital for the first time, and no medical records are traceable (Huser, Rasmussen, Oberg, & Starren, 2011).

On the other hand, those patients whose cases are regular and need normal medical attention; i.e. with no emergencies will be directed to the laboratory for tests after they are allowed access to the doctor for examination. If they are first-time patients, they will be registered a medical file opened for them.  The examination by the doctor will help to narrow down on the disease, so that it is less costly and for the patient, and saves time in carrying out only mandatory diagnoses at the laboratory.

The lab technician should prepare the reports in an appropriate manner that is by the accepted standards. They should be uploaded to the patient’s file and a hard copy given to the patient containing the results along with a reference number for his or her file for the doctor’s access digitally. The code is more convenient than the supply of a physical file since it eliminates the chances of misread or misinterpretation of the results since every detail is clear; both in appearance and jargon. Also, it is accessible instantly across two places that are a distance apart. For instance, in the case of emergencies, the medical report can be accessed by the doctors and nurses almost as soon as they are supplied. For practical purposes, every person knows their national ident