The Culture of Emergency Department in a Public Hospital
The research revolves around the culture of emergency department. Hospital emergency departments make a distinctive subculture inside the healthcare, in an atmosphere of social interaction and variation. Every organization can create its own values. Hospitals or other primary care centers having emergency departments usually. Initially, the emergency room was planned as a treatment room for emergency cases such as road accident cases or other acute conditions in which life is on risk. This department later specialized in the treatment of emergency cases which were presented with no consultation, by an emergency vehicle or any transport available at that time. It was taken place in the Emergency department of Tehsil Headquarter Hospital Pind Dadan Khan. The patients were interviewed regarding their experience, their time of arrival, the medical personnel who received them and their satisfaction level with the provided treatment and care. The other method which was used is participant as observer. The most consistently observed finding associated with higher levels of satisfaction, was the patient-oriented care provided by doctors, nurses and paramedic staff. Doctors and nurses who spent more time with the patient, had better communication skills, showed more empathy and treated the patients within 5 minutes of arrival in the emergency resulted in more patient satisfaction. On the basis of these characteristics, the calculated number of satisfied patients turned was more than the patients who were not satisfied. However, major emergency patients responded that they would not prefer emergency departments of public sector hospitals of Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan for future because major emergency services were not available.
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Emergency Department, Health Care, Patient Satisfaction, Social Interaction.
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(1) Rabbiyah
MSc Student, Department of Anthropology, PMAS-AAUR, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Mahwish Zeeshan
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, PMAS-AAUR, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Rabbiyah., & Zeeshan, M. (2019). The Culture of Emergency Department in a Public Hospital. Global Sociological Review, IV(I), 34-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2019(IV-I).05
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CHICAGO : Rabbiyah, , and Mahwish Zeeshan. 2019. "The Culture of Emergency Department in a Public Hospital." Global Sociological Review, IV (I): 34-44 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2019(IV-I).05
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