RFP Journal of Hospital Administration

Attrition rate in Human Resource department of hospitals has been a factor of great strain. Though questions regarding their recruitment and retention has widely been discussed the organizational factors affecting their attrition gives in fresh new perspective. The diagnostic solutions through changes made based on root cause analysis of employee’s own concerns has been looked up. Forty nurses, which was approximately about one-fourth of the total members in the entire department have been crossexamined qualitatively and quantitatively to arrive at the results. The case study believes that Retention of high-quality nurses would automatically improve the morale of physicians, patients and their families.

Keywords:Nurse attrition; Hospital administration; Motivation; Organization development and diagnosis

The present study assess the effectiveness of the video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding Prevention of malnutrition among the mothers of pre-schooler. Objectives: To assess the effect of video assisted teaching on knowledge of prevention of malnutrition among the mothers of preschooler children. Methodology: Research Design-quasi experimental (one group pre-test and post-test design), sampling technique-Convenient sampling, Research SettingSlum area of city. Results: Findings of the study found that mothers of pre-schooler children have adequate knowledge about prevention of the malnutrition among the pre-schooler children. In pre-test after receiving the video teaching on prevention of malnutrition the mother had higher knowledge scored in the post test, then pre-test. the ‘paired t’ use to find the effect of structured teaching program on prevention of malnutrition the mothers of pre-schooler children in selected slum areas revealed that the video assisted teaching is effective in increasing the knowledge of the mothers.

Keywords: Malnutrition; pre schooler; Slum area; Physical assessment; Nutritional assessment; Health status etc.

Palliative care is a multiple team approach to provide care for patient. Palliative care not only to care for patient in a holistic approach, it cares patient’s family also. The expert team select a particular model or approach to provide care to patient.

Keywords: Palliative care; Models of palliative care, Multiple care approach.

Handling and preservation of dead bodies has to be done with utmost care to maintain the dignity of the person. Failure to stand upto these expectations is not only unacceptable on Humanitarian aspects but may raise a lot of concerns about the service in the mortuary facility of a hospital. The errors which can occur at the Mortuary are the exchange of dead bodies, mutilation by rodents and decomposition due to improper temperature maintenance. The authors in this article aim to describe the broad Standard Operatives Procedures regarding body preservation and handling in a Mortuary Setup for deaths occurring in Hospital, bodies brought by police and death occurring of outside the hospital. All these can be avoided if proper guidelines are laid and followed for dead body handling and preservation. Hospital policy makers and administrators need to lay down the proper guidelines and sincere attention for effective implementation of the guidelines for smooth functioning of the mortuary.

Keywords: Mortuary Management; Dead Body preservation; Medicolegal Cases; Forensic Medicine.

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrinal problem leading to improper, anovulatory menstrual cycle, moreover some individuals may begin to develop cysts. Other changes observed are weight gain, fatigue as well as feeling of low energy levels. These could partially be due to loss of sleep, infertility and skin problems. The current study aims to study the effect of PCOS on the functional capacity as predicted by aerobic capacity. Further the results will increase awareness about the capacity to undergo physical tasks and therefore the cardiovascular health. Twenty-six women participated in the current cross-sectional study, who were in the age group of 18–40 years, with body mass index between 18.5–24.9. The participants were divided into two groups those diagnosed with PCOS and those without it. The study infers that the women with diagnosis of PCOS brought no disparity in VO2max. This examination likewise signified that the PCOS diagnosis is not related with aerobic exercise capacity and it is anticipated that endurance exercise performance and the deduced effort required amid exercise do not have any distinction between both the groups.

Keywords: PCOS; VO2max; BMI; Pulse Rate; Blood Pressure.

A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses (or) procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as medical coding. Job satisfaction is the extent to which an employee feels self-motivated, content and satisfied with his/her job. India stands the second largest pool of medical coders after the US with an estimated Rs.15,000 – Rs.16,000. The US is believed to have over 2,50,000 coders. From the past few years, the nurses are more aspiring to join in a profession of medical coding. Therefore, the study aims to assess the level of job satisfaction among medical coding staff at Health care, Vijayawada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted including convenient sampling technique among 30 medical coders. The data were collected by self administered questionnaire scale related to sociodemographic data and job satisfaction and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The results revealed that, there was moderate level of job satisfaction and there is association between levels of job satisfaction with selected demographic variables of medical coders. Conclusion: In this study medical coders are moderately satisfied with their jobs, the above findings of the study provides evidence that there are many factors which can affect the job satisfaction level which will in-turn affect the quality of productivity of the organization.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Medical coders; Health care; Coding staff; Employer self motivation.

“A comparative study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme and video assisted teaching programme on knowledge regarding biomedical waste management among B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students at Govt. Nursing College Kabirdham (C.G.)” In this study the sample size was 36 students (structured teaching programme group 18 students, video assisted teaching programme group 18). The sampling technique used was probability simple random (lottery method) sampling technique. The research design adopted for the study was two groups pretest and posttest quasi experimental research design. The tool developed was structured knowledge questionnaire consist of two section. (A) Socio demographic data and section (B) structured knowledge questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the obtained data. Results shows that there is no significant association between pretest knowledge of B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students with selected socio demographic variables at the level of p < 0.05. Finding related to the structured teaching programme the posttest mean score 25.16, standard deviation + 3.25 and video assisted teaching programme the posttest mean score 24.44, standard deviation +3.91. Between the structured teaching programme and video assisted teaching programme the posttest mean differences 0.72 and ‘t” test value is 0.60 degree of freedom 34 at the level of p < 0.05. Which shows that there is significant difference between level of knowledge through structured teaching programme and video assisted teaching programme regarding biomedical waste management among B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students.

Keywords: Biomedical Waste Management; lottery method; Video-assisted.