Nursing Management

Types of organizational structure

-       Official organizational structure

-       Informal organizational structure

Official organizational structure

The formal organizational structure is known as The path of executive authority as a result of planning, draws and clarifies the relationship between people, their positions, responsibilities and the relationship between them

Informal organizational structure

It includes personal and social relationships that do not appear in the official organizational structure drawing

Steps to prepare the organizational structure

·       Determine the purpose of the hospital

·       Identify the sub-goals necessary to achieve the goal

·       Determine the necessary activities and implement the sub-objectives (Example nursing/laboratory/nutrition activities, etc)

·       Determine the work required to implement the activities

·       Grouping jobs into positions such as doctors/nurses/technicians/unit heads/specialties/supervisory/technical categories)

·       Grouping jobs into departments, for example (nursing jobs)

·       Grouping departments into departments and sectors, then grouping them under one executive body, for example Health Affairs Directorate/Therapeutic Institution/Health Insurance

·       Preparing an administrative organization guide that explains the rules, regulations, systems, and instructions, the most important of which is the organizational structure

Note

1-    The number of department supervisors is determined according to the hospital’s organizational divisions, according to the location of the departments , the number of beds, and the type of Specializations

2-    The number of department heads is determined according to the organizational divisions of the different departments in the hospital

• Number of hospital beds 150 or more
• The training and education agent in large hospitals should be responsible for the continuous training of nursing staff and coordination between the nursing institute and hospital systems
• The number of nursing supervisors in the departments is determined according to the hospital’s organizational divisions, based on the location of the departments, the number of beds, and the type of specializations
• The number of department heads is determined according to the organizational divisions of the different departments in the hospital
• The hospital determines the number of supervisors, department heads, nurses and their assistants in shifts and night shifts according to the workload of each one