RT Journal
T1 Hospital administration: A career. the need of trained executives for a billion dollar business, and how they may be trained.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD July 6
VO 93
IS 1
SP 57
OP 57
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710010063035
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710010063035
AB This book fills the need for an intelligent introduction to the field of hospital administration, with especial reference to the training and the procuring of hospital superintendents and other executives. The opening chapter gives a brief review of the expanding field of hospital administration. Following in logical sequence are chapters on the administrative and the professional functions in hospitals; comparisons of physicians, nurses and laymen as superintendents; present methods of training and obtaining hospital administrators; how hospital jobs are filled and found; the educational elements in hospital administration; principles underlying the courses of training; suggestions on subject matter, and review of efforts to establish training schools. Valuable suggestions are offered regarding the establishment of courses for the training of hospital executives.