EBM 406: Hospital Engineering Management Second Semester Examination

Hospital engineering management paper set for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, sat on the first of February from half four to six in the evening, with question one compulsory at thirty marks and any two of the others at twenty. Question one explains how the World Health Organisation guidelines support hospital management and performance, discusses four health system objectives, identifies the features of a successful team, and sets out the role and responsibilities of professional registration bodies in Kenya with five such bodies. The remaining questions discuss four functions of the engineering department of a hospital that is at once commercial, industrial and residential; self-awareness through the Johari window diagram, with the ego as the driver of behaviour and three important ego states or behavioural patterns illustrated by examples; the legal liabilities and the laws governing medical issues in a hospital; the role of accreditation services in healthcare delivery and the implementation of the Joint Commission International standards, with how two legal provisions are applied within the hospital environment; and the scope and role of Food and Drug Administration regulation in the management of human health.