I NFLUENCE OF KNOWLEDGE OF MEDI CAL TERMI NOLOGY ON EFFECTI VE PATI ENT CARE SERVI CE DELI VERY AT FEDERAL MEDI CAL CENTRE, OWO ONDO STATE
Abstract
Medical ter minol ogy is the l if e- wir e of activities l ik e descr ibing and
coding patient diagnosis, and pr escr iption f r om heal thcar e pr ovider s etc.
I n the study ar ea the heal thcar e per sonnel ar e l ack ing enough k nowl edge
of medical ter minol ogy which is causing dif fi cul ty in ef fi cient descr ibing
and coding patient diagnosis, and pr escr iption. The specifi c objectives of
this study ar e to; assess the l evel of the k nowl edge of medical
ter minol ogy among the heal th per sonnel , ex amine the ef f ectiveness of
Patient car e Ser vices, ascer tain the infl uence of the k nowl edge of
medical ter minol ogy on ef f ective Patient car e Ser vice Del iver y , deter mine
the r el ationship between k nowl edge of medical ter minol ogy and
ef f ectiveness of Patient car e Ser vices and identif y the chal l enges
invol ved in using k nowl edge of medical ter minol ogy on infl uencing
ef f ective Patient car e Ser vice Del iver y at Feder al Medical Centr e, Owo
Ondo State.
For the pur pose of this r esear ch the descr iptive (sur vey ) r esear ch
design was empl oy ed. The popul ation of this study compr ises of al l thr ee
hundr ed and twenty fi ve (325) Heal th pr of essional staf f wor k ing at Feder al
Medical Centr e, Owo Ondo State. The sampl ing technique empl oy ed f or
sel ecting the sampl e used f or the study is Str atifi ed Sampl ing Technique.
The popul ation of Heal th Wor k er s was initial l y cl assifi ed into medical
per sonnel and par amedical per sonnel . Then two hundr ed wor k er s wer e
r andoml y sel ected to r epr esent the whol e popul ation f or the study . Data
wer e col l ected thr ough str uctur ed Questionnair e that wer e distr ibuted,
fi l l ed, col l ected back and anal y zed by means of per centage tabul ation
and this was used f or pr esentation of data and tabl es.
Base on the Findings and concl usion of this Study the f ol l owing
Recommendations wer e made: Hospital Management Boar d shoul d fi nd
means of enl ightening the heal th pr of essional s on the necessity of the
k nowl edge of medical ter minol ogy f or ef f ective Patient car e Ser vice
Del iver y , Medical per sonnel shoul d endeavor to impr ove the l egibil ity of
their handwr iting dur ing documentation to enabl e easy assimil ation of the
content of the patient r ecor ds f or easy coding, r esear ch and other
statistical use, endeavour to empl oy mor e qual ifi ed staf f to impr ove job
ef f ectiveness, pr ovide computer pack ages with standar d ter minol ogy in
documentation and pr escr iption and ther e shoul d be Constant tr aining of
both medical and par amedical per sonnel on the use of medical
ter minol ogy f or ef f ective Patient car e Ser vice Del iver y
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