Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
Open Access

Abstract

Healthcare management also defined as healthcare administration, the administration, management or supervision of healthcare systems, public health systems, hospitals, hospital networks or other medical facilities. Duties of these professionals in these fields include ensuring that individual departments run smoothly, the employment of professionals, dissemination of efficient information throughout the organization, among many other responsibilities. There are general healthcare managers and those who are considered specialists. Generalists oversee entire facilities, while specialists focus on the administration of specific departments like marketing, finance, policy analysis or accounting. The role of Nigeria’s government has been narrowed to the management of Federal Medical Centers and Universities affairs. The state government is responsible for general local hospitals and providing primary health care centers in Nigeria. The total cost of GDP from the healthcare sector in Nigeria is 4.6%. At the same time, the expenditure on GDP from the government’s side is 1.5%. However, researches conducted has proven to us that many of the healthcare centers in Nigeria lack the following qualities listed below which are not expected to be in a good health sector: 1. Corruption in healthcare 2. Bad education of management specialist 3. Poor education of doctors 4. Lack of finances 5. Lack of tools 6. Lack of medicine etc. 7. Lack of empathy. Few out of many lookout for a good health care management solutions are: 1. Intergration with good regulatory body 2. Allowing workflow communication 3. Having a strong zeal of reporting capabilities 4. Control Access

Biography

Osaigbovo Joy Ehinomen is a senior nursing officer at Central Hospital, started are the nursing career in 2007 in Benin. She attended st Cammilus School of midwifery, uromi in the year 2000 and also state school of nursing Benin City, Nigeria. 2003.

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