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You're going to want what the American Hospital Association and its member hospitals in your community present at your service the the transcribed series in the public interest designed to take you behind the scenes in your hospital who's a hospital is first a building and a hospital is equipment but even more than a building more than special equipment the hospital is the people you find in your hospital the most responsible the most skillful the most highly trained and the most loyal people in your community yes hospitals are people and more people than you would ever dream necessary you probably couldn't guess how many people are employed in shall we say a two hundred fifty bed hospital would you like to try or wait let's tell you about Bill Green something of an industrialist in his way W A Green who is being just a little patronize into the hospital administrator as they left the chamber of commerce like. You don't have any problems so I don't. Believe that myself but somehow I can't they've got a lot of all I mean personnel problems you've got to deal with the refuse nurses and technicians or whatever they are now if you had my troubles. Practically fighting. Just how many people do you think we have on the payroll the hospital how many rooms you got I mean how many patients can you take care of our normal complement is two hundred fifty bad let's see two hundred fifty beds. Say About fifty people and that's when I say that's no problem of course you're just a little kid we have four hundred eighty seven you have four hundred. Eighty seven crazy or something I wouldn't say I was the one. You know well I've got an idea the point you drop out tomorrow morning. Kind of take you around the hospital a little give you an idea of what our people do. You know we have better than a hundred different jobs. Doggone it. Let's say about. Our. Patients almost never see the complex working mechanism that makes up the service of the hospital because like an iceberg seven eight. Ordinarily you as a visitor might notice some of these things but you seldom do because your attention is directed to the patient you're visiting your probably like. Right on time. And I'm always on time believe in keeping appointments on time and we keep a lot of them believe me everything in the hospital must run on an exact schedule it's got to take like clockwork we work with people's lives and with that you don't need to remind me of that but you know Burt coming in here as well I did notice a few more people than I've ever seen in a hospital before quite an office staff I naturally we have to have cashiers stenographers and clerks just the same as a business does you mean you have to work with things like inventory controls and accounts payable all that sort of thing tell me how we could operate without a. Businessman go ahead and tell me well I suppose. And just like the budget we have our purchasing department and that's no small matter I can assure you I didn't even realize you had the biggest of course our operators must handle the page they are Paging doctors and others on this. We're going to show me over the place. The same as yours which a pardon. OK let's go on the. Hospital. Staff they must have all the competent clerical assistants require a hospital finance. You'll find about the same job titles that you would find in industry the same record cliques secretaries the bookkeepers. The purchasing agent the storekeeper and all the rest only There's a difference the hospital must of necessity work around the clock because the patient. Possible to enter the hospital between the custom hours of nine to five maybe three o'clock in the morning. And so Bill Green business executive gets an education in what it takes to staff a hospital up on the floor. Just a minute Miss Porter Good morning Mr Porter This is Mr Greene Ms Porter's our director of nurses how do you do you see Mr Williams taking me on a little tour of the hospital we well that is Mr Green's that he didn't have much of an idea about the number of people it takes to start a hospital and he'd like to know a little more about it yes yes that was all it's nice to have you Mr Green and Alan Joyce telling you about some of the different jobs we have here in the hospital that is if you wanted me to make you know I'd like very much for you. The nurses. What you call technicians there are distinctions there too but there are all those and there we were in the. Oh I'm sorry Bill it always seems to happen this way but here I can turn you over to Miss Porter let's imagine she's better acquainted up here on the floor than you are right there I'll be glad to show you around Mr Green We always appreciate it when someone shows an interest in hospital personnel Thanks nice border and I'll pick you up later Bill Green Lane the difference between the X. ray technician who works in the radiology department and the medical technologist in the pathology department or laboratory both are often referred to simply as technicians but the thing that surprised and appalled Bill Greene was the number required not one or two but by the dozen. And also a shock was the fact that the hospital trains these technical Oh yes we have schools in medical technology and for radiology technicians Mr Green after all these people must be trained where the clinical material is available and that means the hospital it's part of our service to the community and to the health field in general I mean you can still be well philanthropic about it oh yes after all I thought job well I never thought of it that way and in here this is the medical records library library of course you know there's a careful and detailed record kept of every patient their past history history of present illness a detailed story of their progress while in the hospital and the step by step record of their surgery written by the surgeon but you mean you keep all these records yes we must keep them there absolutely essential to the care of the patient as well as tremendously important to medical science though we have the medical records librarian and the clerical staff of the records library and of course you've noticed our student nurse yes like that girl there are no she's a practical nurse in clinical training here on a much shorter course than the graduate professional nurse we train them to to fill a very useful spot on the nursing team but they're There's one of our students but I never thought of the hospital as an educational institution this border and maybe you didn't but that's an important function of every hospital in the community we train the nurses who are used in business and industry like your airline hostesses for example those in public health and school nursing and all that they get their basic training usually in the hospital school of nursing Well all I can say is I'm learning things about yes Bill Green was learning a great deal about the hospital he got a picture of the technical aspects first the nurses and technicians and technologists the interns and residents. But aside from the technical staff of the hospital though Green was to learn that there were still many functions in caring for the sick that didn't quite come under the same class of well Bell how are you making out just a little out of breath Bert I think after Miss Porter took me through the loops around here it's been very nice giving Mr Green an inside take three of our hospital personnel Mr Williams he seemed surprised at the many different classifications we had and that's putting it mildly Miss Porter Well I got that matter at the office taken care of and I imagine you would like to get back on schedule as porter as I would although it's been a pleasure and to me to thank Ms Porter And now let's take a look at some of the other types of personal though like the various aspects of maintenance of course there's the housekeeping department housekeeping that's what we call the department responsible for the care of all rooms and corridors floors and window washing and all life come to think of it that would be quite a job and of course there are they all here's Mr Larson our engineer and good morning Mr Williams good morning Lars this is Mr Green a friend of mine who runs a big factory or so doing they have a lot of. Different maybe but a little the same alarmist a license so your the engineer and you know and that covers a lot of things Mr Green It's a big building to keep going you know yes it is and that takes a lot of attention like all the electrical wiring and equipment those big X. ray machines on the top floor the electricity they take something off everything in the hospital seems to operate with electricity bill when you're secure straight lines into not Mr Green you've got to have oxygen or a power auxiliary power why I suppose one of them doctors is operating up there the big operating light and all of them a little and and iron lungs and instruments and things we can't take no chances. There's got to be auxiliary power all the time you see Mr Green if there wasn't people might die and that's what this hospital is here for to see that they don't so you have engineers and maintenance men and electricians there's lots of us works around the hospital who never see Mr Green like the folks that work in the laundry the Harshman and mangle operators presses and so orders like mending women or them the laundry if you're doing and the kitchen help the cooks and salad women that's the butcher's part Marcia's knew she was yours the painters the Carpenters and the elevator the whole idea well I mean I never knew it took all those to run a hospital Mr Green and lots of others if you've been here a long time I've been here twenty seven yes lots of it's been here ten years twenty years we work forty hours we gotta keep it corn all the time Mr Green No fancy eight hours a day but all the time and we work hair because the. I guess because we kind of feel we're doing something for people helping them when they're sick down and that you know like you do for your friends or your own family so it's a neighbor like that's the way we feel about the hospital so what are they able to live. The or what yes a hospital is a building and equipment and more than that the hospital is people or skilled and highly trained and educated people or people devoted to the task of alleviating human suffering people willing to work while others sleep and play people willing to give their working lives to the Sec of your community that you may have the care you need when you enter the hospital or are the remember this important fact every minute that you are in the hospital the time of two members of this family is directly or indirectly devoted to your well being this great company of people in your community who are dedicated to the task of caring for you when your sake yes hospitals are people the finest people the most dependable the most loyal while they guard your waking and sleeping moments in constant readiness for your need of their service. For more information about the service of your hospital listen to your service. 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