resuscitation room bed after trauma intervention, showing highly technical equipment of modern hospitals
hospitals consist of departments, traditionally called wards, when have beds inpatients, when called inpatient wards. hospitals may have acute services such emergency department or specialist trauma centre, burn unit, surgery, or urgent care. these may backed more specialist units such following:
emergency department
cardiology
intensive care unit
paediatric intensive care unit
neonatal intensive care unit
cardiovascular intensive care unit
neurology
oncology
obstetrics , gynaecology, colloquially, maternity ward
in addition, there department of nursing, headed chief nursing officer or director of nursing. department responsible administration of professional nursing practice, research, , policy hospital. nursing permeates every part of hospital. many units or wards have both nursing , medical director serve administrators respective disciplines within specialty. example, in intensive care nursery, director of neonatology responsible medical staff , medical care while nursing manager/director intensive care nursery responsible of nurses , nursing care in unit/ward.
some hospitals have outpatient departments , have chronic treatment units such behavioral health services, dentistry, dermatology, psychiatric ward, rehabilitation services, , physical therapy.
common support units include dispensary or pharmacy, pathology, , radiology. on non-medical side, there medical records departments, release of information departments, information management (a.k.a. im, or is), clinical engineering (a.k.a. biomed), facilities management, plant ops (operations, known maintenance), dining services, , security departments.
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