Functioning and Objectives of Public Hospitals in Australia

This presentation discusses the functioning and objectives of public hospitals in Australia, including the theoretical underpinning, evaluation of nursing professionals, funding, target population, and recommendations for improvement.

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT:
COMMUNITY ORGANISATION
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INTRODUCTION
 The healthcare system of Australia is
composed of numerous hierarchies of
roles and responsibilities in public
hospitals
 It is the public hospitals that offer care
starting from critical, emergency,
paediatric, maternity and other end of
life care to a wide range of population
(Parliament of Australia, 2013)

THINGS TO BE COVERED
This power point presentation will discuss
 Functioning of public hospitals in Australia
 Theoretical underpinning behind the main
objective of the public hospitals
 Evaluation of the fundamental service procured
by the nursing professionals
 Main funding bodies of public hospitals in
Australia
 Recommendation for further improvement

FUNCTIONING PURPOSE OF PUBLIC
HOSPITALS OF AUSTRALIA
The main function of Australian
public hospitals is delivering
effective healthcare service
 They mainly specialize in
procuring acute care is provided
for physical and mental health
 This promotes fast recovery while
promoting health and well-being
(Parliament of Australia, 2013)

OTHER PURPOSE OF
PUBLIC HOSPITALS
 Nurturing an well-equipped out-patient
department
 A flexible emergency department for treating
critical cases like road injury, heart attacks or
other fatal injuries arising out of accidents
 Maternity ward for care of the pregnant
women
 Paediatric ward for curing children under
specially trained nurse
 Mental counselling for mental health patients
 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
2016a)

OBJECTIVE OF THE PUBLIC
HOSPITALS OF AUSTRALIA
The main objectives of the public hospitals operating in
Australia are
 Developing consumer-focused integrated healthcare
system
 Improvement of the overall access of the care in order to
decrease the health inequalities
 Overall health promotion
 Early screening of the communicable and non-
communicable disease
 Prevention and early intervention strategies for disease
treatment
 Improvement of performance along with safety and
accountability of the healthcare professionals
 (Australian Government Department of Health, 2013)

THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING OF PUBLIC
HOSPITALS IN AUSTRALIA
 Reduction of health inequalities which is
prominent in Australia especially among
the aboriginals and the Torres Strait
Islanders
 Complete eradication of communicable
diseases with proper antibiotic therapy
and vaccination
 Reduction in the occurrence of non-
communicable disease
 (Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, 2016)

EVALUATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESS
AND PRACTICES OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS
As per the Code of Professional Conduct for
Nurses in Australia (2017)
 Nursing professionals are required to
support the health and well-being of the
service users with honest, impartial and
accurate information
 Nursing professionals are required to
encourage the service users in the
informed decision making process.
 Assessing, diagnosing, planning,
implementing and evaluating disease and
disease progression
(Lowe et al., 2012)

DRAWBACKS AMONG NURSING
PROFESSIONALS
 Lack in effective communication
 Lack of proper intrapersonal skills
 Initiatives by the government
 Proper training and skill education in
effective communication via interactive
sessions
(O'hagan et al., 2014)

FUNDING FROM THE
GOVERNMENT BODY
 The funding for the public hospitals in
Australia comes through National Health
Reform Agreement (NHRA) in the form of
 State funding
 Territory funding
 Commonwealth funding
 During f 2016 to 2017 $44.1 billion of
funding was channelized to local hospital
networks
(Australian Government Department of
Health, 2017).

NETWORKS FOR THE
TARGET POPULATION
 Aged population
 Australian aboriginals(Torres Strait
Islanders)
(Australian Medical Association, 2017)
 Ethical consideration for the aged
population: right of autonomy and
advocacy
 The ethical consideration with
aboriginals: cultural sensitivity
(Australian Hospital Healthcare Bulletin,
2016)

CONCLUSION
 Main role of the Australian public hospitals
is to procure quality health care service
 The main objective of the public hospitals
of Australia is to provide safe care in a
competent manner
 The main funding comes from the state,
territories and common wealth of Australia
 The main service providers are the doctors
are the nurses
 The target population is aged population
and aboriginals

RECOMMENDATION
 Public hospitals of Australia must
indulge in community health program
 Disease education e given by the nurses
of the public hospitals

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