PRESENTATION ON BRIEF OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS DEPARTMENT IN THE HOSPITAL

1. GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS
DEPARTMENT

2.  GYNECOLOGY deals with non pregnant women.
 OBSTETRICS deals with pregnant women and their unborn
baby.
 Obstetrical patients usually make monthly visits, which entail weighing
and a brief examination.
 Gynecology patients require a more lengthy pelvic examination. This
type of practice requires a large staff, as each physician needs one or two
nurses.
Schematic diagram of OB/GYN department
Source-http://pocketdentistry.com/wp-
content/uploads/1008/f170-01.jpg

3. Obstetrics consists of the following processes:
Labour
Delivery/ Birthing
Recovery
Postnatal (or Post-Partum)
Separate from these 4 processes, the baby infant nurseries
Functional Areas
The Obstetric Unit consists of the following functional areas:
Reception and arrival area including provisions for visitors and administrative
activities
Inpatient areas for general mother care and for acute care (both antenatal and
post natal)
Birthing areas
LDR

4. Neonatal Nursery area – General Care Nursery area.
I. Feeding the baby
II. Bathing, changing and weighing the baby
III. Allowing the baby to sleep during the day.
The Obstetric Unit will require rapid access to Operating Unit for emergency
Caesarean Section deliveries; the Operational Policy will determine the
requirement for Operating facilities located within the Birthing Area.

5. Patient Flow
• There should be three to four exam rooms per physician.
• The patient flow is from waiting room to weighing area, to toilet (urine
specimen), to exam room. A good space plan will channel patients to each
area by the most direct route with no backtracking or unnecessary steps.
• If possible, the nurse station/sterilization/lab areas should be located
toward the front of the suite (centralized) so that the staff can cover for
each other.

6. http://www.healthdes
ign.com.au/haad.hfg/
Full_Index/haad_b_ob
stetrics_unit.pdf

8. http://pocketdentistry
.com/medicine-
specialized-suites/

9. MOVEMENT PATTERN IN
DELIVERY CASES

10. Space plan of OB/GYN suite, 1,900 square feet. http://pocketdentistry.co
m/wp-
content/uploads/1008/f1
74-01.jpg

11. Space plan for OB/GYN suite, 5,535 square feet.
http://pocketdentistry.com/wp-content/uploads/1008/f172-01.jpg

12. Space plan urogynecology suite, 2,660 square feet.
http://pocketdentistry.com/wp-content/uploads/1008/f175-01.jpg
It is a sub speciality of gynecology, and it is also known as
reconstructive surgery. The room in which the women is
treated with variety of disorders.

13. EXAM ROOM
• Exam rooms may have painted walls or vinyl wall covering, perhaps a
wood-look vinyl floor.
• And a dressing area where patients may disrobe in privacy. This dressing
area can be a 3 × 3–foot corner of a room with a ceiling-mounted cubicle
drape and a chair or built-in bench.
• The size of an OB-GYN exam room may be 8 × 12 feet but this width is
tight, especially if the casework has an area for a monitor and a place for the
patient and physician to sit side by side to view the monitor.
• A room 10 × 12 feet is desirable and allows the physician to remain in the
room while the patient dresses behind a curtain in order to chart and
write a prescription.

14. •LABOUR ROOM
Labour rooms should preferably be in the form of cubicles; two labour rooms for
every 10 maternity beds. As birth follows labour, the labour rooms should be
placed adjacent to delivery rooms. The examination- cum-preparation room and
labour room may be combined into a single room.
•DELIVERY ROOMS
Delivery rooms shall be of the following types:
a) Clean delivery room for normal deliveries.
b) Operation theatre.
One delivery bed shall be provided for every 10 maternity beds.
• STERILIZING ROOMS
The facilities for sterilization of the equipment in the delivery suites should be
provided. This room should house a work counter, sink, small high-speed
pressure instruments sterilizer, etc.

15. •STERILE STORE ROOM
Close to the sterilizing room, a room to store sterile material should be provided. It
should be provided.
•SCRUBBING ROOMS
Scrub-up facilities may be provided between two delivery rooms similar to those
provided in operation theatre department.
•DIRTY UTILITY
For collection and transferring of blood stained clothes to the laundry unit, a sluice
room shall be provided. It is desirable to install mechanical aid for washing of bed
pans, urinals, etc.
•OTHER FACILITIES
Other facilities for the unit should include change rooms for doctors, nurses,
technicians, anesthesia room, instrument and linen storage, recovery room, etc. and
these should be identical to operation theatres department.