CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Hospital is a
building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying patients. It
usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
Hospital works take a succeeding step. Each step has a specified duration of
time and a mapped out work associated with it. The time stipulated to be
utilized is to enable you cover the work load elaborately or in details. The
issue of analyzing the work load and time involved in an Hospital category and
distributing the work load is time intervals. For maximum knowledge, impact is
a great concern to the professorate in the field. This is where comprehensive
medical duties schedule is always designed to suit the curriculum.
Medical duties schedule does not only involve all
capture of time duties to medical personnel, it also involve the careful
allocation other resources like labor force and space available. When all these
factors are not adequately taken care of, it lead to cases which hinder the
effective Hospital operation.
1.2 STATEMENT
OF PROBLEMS
The problem associated with the old manual system of
medical duties scheduling hindered effective table predication.
The problems which this project tends to answer are
1. There is
improper keeping of record of patients.
2. The existing
system waste a lot of time. This delay in effect of set back of the Hospital
operation.
3. The manual medical duties scheduling, causes
lot of problems or clashes. That is, duties clashes between Doctors and nurses,
also it makes medical duties scheduling unreliable.
1.3 AIM AND
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
This study is carried out with a view of producing a
computerized medical duties scheduling during manual medical duties scheduling.
The new system will also produce a comprehensive and authentic medical duties
schedule.
1. To create a
platform for proper keeping of data, this can be easily access at any point in
time.
2. To eliminate
the barrier of time wasting and ensure the proper functioning of the hospital.
3. To create a
reliable roster on how duties is been schedule accordingly, in other to avoid
clashes.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
Several departments in the University of Nigeria
teaching Hospitals Enugu have been for the past year even till date designing
their Duties schedule manually.
The primary aim of this project work is to;
1. Relief the
burden and obstacle in the production of effective medical duties schedule by
developing a computer program which will be timely, more accurate, more
reliable and more comprehensive.
2. To improve
the service delivery of hospital staff to the patients and to eliminate
self-appointment in the hospitals, thereby reducing the number of casualties.
3. To keep hospital staffs alert, so that they
will know when they are at duty, and eliminating ghost workers in the
hospitals.
4. The project
will be useful to hospitals owing to the fact that it is less stressful,
reliable and maintainable, it does not consume time and it is easily usable.
1.5 SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
The overall goal of this work is purely investigative
and prescriptive. The University of Nigeria teaching Hospital Enugu has been
selected as my case study.
This work is
limited to the study of medical duties scheduling system existing in university
of Nigeria teaching Hospital Enugu and designing a program for its
computerization. It will be able to collect staffs data and it is to be updated
monthly. Also, this project will be able to provide forum for chief medical
doctor to (CMD) to check their progress and how the hospital is been managed in
terms of scheduling duties.
1.6
LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
At the problem definition they were unable to
understand the working principle of the project but with the help of the
simpler aspect of the program to be handling first while the harder aspect
follows, it was successful. This project is limited in several ways, which
includes; the allocation of duties can only last for one month therefore it
must be updated monthly.
It was also
difficult to collect data from the hospital due to unavailability of personnel.
It was not easy in combining class assignments, class work, preparation of
final exams and the project writing at the same time.
1.7 DEFINITION
OF TERMS
HOSPITAL: According
to oxford advanced accuracy, Hospital is an institution providing medical
treatment and care for ill and injured people or a building where people who
are sick, injured or ill are given medical treatment and care.
COMPUTER: A computer is an electronic machine
or devices working under the control of stored programs (system software)
automatically accepting data as input, processing it and producing information
as output.
SYSTEM: system is a network of interrupted
procedures pried together to perform a specific task.
ONLINE: being
connected to network or available on computer network.
INTERNET: this is a
collection of gateways, networks, server, and computers using common set of
telecommunication protocol to link together.
E-MAIL: This is a
way of sending messages and data to all the staffs.
MEDICAL: It is connected with the way of
treating illness that does not involve cutting the body.
SCHEDULE: A plan that list all the work that
you have to do and when you must do each thing.
MANUAL: This is a physical way of carry out intervention.
DUTIES TIME INTERVAL: Duties time interval is the interval
from the start of duties to the close of duties each day.