AST LECT Flashcards
The discipline of laboratory can be viewed as a
bridging endeavor linking the
basic medical,
biologic and physical science with medical
practice.
The activities in clinical laboratories are
divided into four categories:
- Administration
- Patient care service
- Research
- Teaching
_____ is among the
hospital services that produce some of
the revenue needed to offset hospital
costs for which patients are not billed.
The clinical laboratory
____ also conducts
thousands of tests on blood, tissues and
various body fluids.
The laboratory department
PERFORMS COMPLEX ANALYSES AND
EXAMINATIONS SUCH AS THE FOLLOWING:
• To confirm clinical impression or establish diagnosis • To rule out a diagnosis • To monitor therapy (management guide) • To establish prognosis • To screen for or detect disease
The efficient operation of a clinical laboratory
and the effective delivery of medical
laboratory services to the clinicians ad their
patient require a complex inter-digitations of:
a) Expertise in medical, scientific and technical areas b) Resources in the form of personnel, laboratory and data processing equipment, supplies and facilitates c) Skills in organization, management and communication
What is management?
Working with and through people to
accomplish a common mission is usually
the core of the short descriptions that
have been proposed.
FIVE INGREDIENTS AND/OR CONDITIONS
NECESSARY FOR MANAGEMENT TO
SUCCEED WHICH INCLUDES:
Mission Authority Resources Responsibility Accountability
goal that the organization sub-unit expects
to accomplish
Mission
needed to direct the team toward the
goal
Authority
includes people, equipment, supplies
and money
Resources
for achieving the goals assigned
Responsibility
for using the resources established
Accountability
____ is working with and through
people to accomplish a common mission
Management
is a distinct process consisting of
planning, organizing, actuating (leading) and
controlling, which are performed to determine
and accomplish the objectives by the use of
people and resources.
Management
is the effective motivation of men
and the efficient utilization of resources for the
attainment of a pre-determined objective.
Management
NATURE OF MANAGEMENT
Management is both an art and science.
MANAGEMENT is an art because
it results in the accomplishment of
objective by the use of human efforts. It requires skill
and careful study of its application.
MANAGEMENT is a science
because it is a systematic body of
knowledge. It gathers and analyzers facts and
formulates general law or principles from these facts.
As an art and science,
management seeks to integrate
into a unified, coordinated whole of all the essential
factors that make up an organization.
The functions of management refer to those
distinctive activities that must be carried
out by the manager if the objectives of an
organization are to be achieved. These
functions of management may be grouped
into
planning, organizing, directing and
controlling.
Is a mental effort by which executives anticipate the
possible causes or factors that may effect or change
the activities and objectives of a particular
organization.
PLANNING
It controls the nature and direction of change and
determines what measures or actions are necessary
to accomplish predetermined goals.
PLANNING
In ___, efforts should include several possible
alternative sources of action that may be taken
under varying conditions. From these alternatives,
the best course of action under the circumstances
will be considered.
PLANNING
Is the grouping together of men and
establishing relationships among them,
defining the authority and responsibility to
the personnel, who are to perform the
work in order to use maximum advantage
of the laboratory’s material resources in
the attainment of a common objective.
ORGANIZING
Refers to the way of getting all personnel
in an organization to accomplish what
management desires.
DIRECTING
It is telling what each man should do and
making him like doing it.
DIRECTING
It involves both motivation and
communication.
DIRECTING
Means checking the work accomplished against plans or standards, and making adjustments or corrections when new developments or unforeseen circumstances necessitate.
CONTROLLING
The bases for controlling
standard quantity,
standard time
standard cost.
Three aspects are involved IN CONTROLOLING namely:
- Planned performance
- Measure of actual performance
- Corrective measures
AS A LEADER OF ORGANIZATIONS,
MANAGERS ARE REQUIRED TO PLAY
BASIC ROLES SUCH AS:
- As a PERSON
- As a SERVANT
- As a REPRESENTATIVE
• The manager is first and foremost a person. Like
other people, have similar fears, dreams, hoes,
difficulties, potentials, expectations and
weaknesses as well.
• There seemed to be “natural leaders” with inborn
skills however, without an understanding of the
management process, they soon fail when put in
situations that require exacting attention to detail.
- As a PERSON
• Managers must become a supporter of their staff and provide the means for the staff to meet the needs of their patient and customers. • This is necessary for the organization to function well.
- As a SERVANT
• They too may quickly run into trouble when
required to interact with or direct a group of
people. The ability to deal with both people
and things is essential to management.
Indeed, managers are made not born.
- As a SERVANT
• The manager is paid representative
of the owners of the people he
supervise and presenting their
concerns to the owners.
AS A REPRESENTATIVE
A _____is an individual whose job is to guide the
organization to attain its objectives. He performs
the function of planning, organizing, directing and
controlling the work of his subordinates. The term
manager is commonly confused with director,
administrator and supervisor.
manager
A __directs the affair of an organization by
establishing goals and priorities that determine the
direction the organization will take. The director
might not directly supervise or manager in a
technical sense his role is primarily one of broad
policy making.
director
An ___ administers or runs an
organization within the framework of the
various directives and policies given to him.
administrator
A ____ oversees the activities of others to
get them to accomplish specific tasks or to
perform scheduled activities most efficiently.
supervisor
A ____ takes charge of the management or
oversees the functioning of an activity to
achieve a set of goals or purposes. His strength
is in his ability to use all of his resources to get
things done properly. In reality, everyone who
has responsibility for a section, an office, a
laboratory, any activity- functions as a manager.
manager
