| Syllabus Home |
| HOSPITAL HOUSEKEEPER |
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| PAPER I - Basic Medical Sciences, Hospital Organisations and Community |
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| 1 | Hospital as an organisation and its management. |
| | a. | Definition of hospital |
| | b. | History and development of hospitals in India |
| | c. | Types of hospital as per ownership as per disease |
| | d. | Role and functions of hospitals |
| | e. | Hospital as a system |
| | f. | Hosptial and its population, tasks, responsibility and behaviour |
| 2 | Hospital and Community. |
| | a. | Its social and cultural characteristics |
| | b. | Demographic distribution |
| | c. | Health problems of community |
| | d. | Role of hospital in community health. |
| | e. | Health Education |
| | f. | Community participation in promotion of health and prevention of disease |
| | g. | Human relation in hospital |
| 3 | Basic Medical Sciences. |
| | a. | Concepts and terminology |
| | b. | Elementory human anatomy |
| | c. | Physiology of major systems |
| | d. | Microbiology |
| 4 | Community Medicine |
| | a. | Definition of health |
| | b. | Maintenance of health |
| | c. | National health programmes |
| 5 | General & Hospital Statistics |
| | a. | Terminology and Significance |
| PAPER II - Sanitation & Waste Disposal |
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| 1 | Sanitation |
| | a. | Basic principles of sanitations |
| | b. | Principles of personal hygiene |
| | c. | Chemistry of Sanitation (chemicals used) |
| | d. | Cleaning procedures for various areas
(i) General areas, (ii) Wards/Departments, (iii) Operation theatres, (iv) Service areas, (v) ICU, (vi) Laboratory, (vii) Nursery, (viii) Labour room |
| | e. | Basic Knowledge of Sanitary equipments their operation and maintenance. |
| | f. | Basic sanitation engineering |
| 2 | Waste Disposal |
| | a. | Definition of hospital waste |
| | b. | Type and source of hospital waste |
| | c. | Hazards of hospital population and community |
| | d. | Collections of hospital waste |
| | e. | Transportation |
| | f. | Final disposal method
(i) Sewage disposal, (ii) Incineration and filling, (iii) Special method , radio active waste, (iv) Infected waste, (v) Treatment plant |
| | g. | Personal protection methods during waste handling |
| 3 | Odour control |
| | a. | Definition, classification, sources identification |
| | b. | Basic principle of ventilation, composition of air, airflow, humidity |
| | c. | Temperature |
| | d. | Ward Climate |
| | e. | Prevention and control odour |
| | f. | use of odour and their characteristics |
| | g. | Equipments used for odour control operation |
| PAPER III - Environment and Hospital Infection |
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| 1 | Environment Hygiene |
| | a. | Basic knowledge of factors of hospital environment. |
| | b. | Principles of layout configuration, work flow of men material and Equipment in different hospital areas. |
| | c. | Types of pollution like air, water and noise pollution and their Prevention and control. |
| 2 | Pest and Rodent Control |
| | a. | Basic entimology |
| | b. | Transmission of diseases by pest and rodents |
| | c. | Methods of control and eradication of different Pests, rodents and other Animals |
| 3 | Hospital Infection |
| | a. | Definition, importance |
| | b. | Epidemiology of hospital infection |
| | c. | Basic disease process |
| | d. | Common factors and responsible for hospital infection |
| | e. | causes of cross infection |
| | f. | Control and prevention of hospital infection |
| | g. | Basic process of dis-infection sterlization and aseptic practices. |
| PAPER IV - Sanitary Equipment and Interior Decoration |
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| 1 | Interior Decoration |
| | a. | Various colour schemes and their importance in hospital areas. |
| | b. | Different-colouring materials their characteristics |
| | c. | Types of soft furnishing/applicable to hospital and their maintance |
| | d. | Different flower arrangements |
| | e. | Types of flowers, seasonal availability |
| | f. | Different-colours and their impact on hospital environment |
| | g. | Preservations methods |
| 2 | Sanitary Equipment Maintenance |
| | a. | Equipment Maintenance |
| | b. | Types and nature of sanitary equipments used in hospitals |
| | c. | Basic co-operation of the sanitary equipments |
| | d. | Common faults and their repairs |
| | e. | Daily and periodic maintenance procedures |
| | f. | Safety in handling equipments |
| | g. | Storage of sanitary equipments |
| PAPER V - Hospital Fabrics |
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| 1 | Hospital Fabrics |
| | a. | Definition |
| | b. | Types of hospital linen and their importance |
| | c. | Sources of fabrics and their characteristics |
| 2 | Linen Services |
| | a. | Selection, Procurement and storage of hospital linen |
| | b. | Preparation and mending of linen |
| | c. | process of collection dirty and clean linen |
| | d. | procedures of condemnation and replenishment methods |
| | e. | Linen and hospital infection |
| 3 | Material Management and accounting |
| | a. | Basic materials management, principles applicable in linen store Management |
| | b. | Basic accounting procedures |
| PAPER VI - Management and Fire Safety |
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| 1 | Management |
| | a. | Basic Managerial functions
(i) Planning (ii) Organising (iii) Co-ordinating (iv) Control and monitoring |
| | b. | Application of managerial function in house keeping |
| 2 | Fire Safety |
| | a. | Classification of fire and importance in hospital |
| | b. | Basic methods of prevention of fire and fire Safety measures |
| | c. | Fire escapes |
| | d. | Fire fighting |
| | e. | Types of fire extinguishers and their uses |
| | f. | Action plans in case of fire |
| | g. | Salvage and picketing |
| 3 | Teaching Staff |
| | Two Full time teachers |
| | | Life Science |
| | | Teacher is in Nursing |
| | Part time teachers - Two |
