Healthcare Administration and Conflict Resolution

This assignment examines the crucial role of health advisory boards in addressing internal conflicts within healthcare settings. It delves into the responsibilities and functions of hospital governance, emphasizing their focus on business operations, ethical conduct, and patient care. The author outlines key duties of a health care administrative leader, including resource management, policy implementation, and conflict prevention. Additionally, the assignment highlights the importance of maintaining public trust, ensuring patient well-being, and promoting equitable and sustainable healthcare delivery.

Running head: DISCUSSION
Role of health advisory board in resolving internal conflicts
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1DISCUSSION
Hospital governance exercises authority, influences, directs and controls the delivery of
healthcare services. Their principal duties are to focus on business functions like patient
admissions, finance, personnel, operations and facilities. They develop and implement policies
that help to focus and differentiate all responsibilities among the management, and medical staff
(Tsai et al., 2015).
The board promotes detection, prevention, and resolution of actions, which do not
conform to any legal or business standards. They are responsible for creating incentives that
promote employee compliance. Board members have ethical obligations to excuse themselves
from any action related to financial matters (Latimer, 2015). They are entitled with the
responsibility of maintaining public trust by ensuring absence of personal gains from official
actions. Moreover, their role is to safeguard confidential medical information.
As a health care administrative leader, I will try to maintain an inventory of the medical
equipments that are used in the hospital setting. I will understand the emotional aspects of patient
care, based on their specific needs, such as patients in stretchers or wheelchairs. Handling
hospital resources for maximizing output will be one of my fundamental roles. I will work
towards coordinating doctors, patient advocates and insurance companies, direct the flow of
funds from third-party investors, and implement new policies in the hospitals (Jagosh et al.,
2012).
Furthermore, I will try to prevent negligence and malpractice at work, ensure informed
consent has been taken from patients and will promote public relations with the government.
Thus, my future role as a hospital administrator will assist me to provide services in an equitable
and sustainable manner.

2DISCUSSION
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