The Duties Of Being A Health Care Administrator
Being a college student gives you a chance to figure out what you want next in life. Taking the correct classes towards your career can be quite challenging at time. Trying to pick a career at which you and your family can make a living off can also get stressful. Many people will tell you not to rush into making a career decision. However, I believe the sooner you make a choice on what your career goal will be the more motivated you become on doing your best and striving for excellence.
Many majors have been crossing my mind, I have looked into being a doctor, lawyer, teacher, and even policeman. All of those are great career paths and maybe not all need a degree but finally I came across one that I’m willing to stick with called Health care administrationIn the health care administration field, you have the responsibility of managing places like hospitals, and clinics. You also get the opportunity to manage the physicians and make changes to your work space when necessary. The duties of being a health care administrator consist of creating work schedules, Manage the facility, keep very important records such as billing and fuds used within the facility, and ensure that the facility is up to date and in compliant with laws and regulations.
Up under being a health care administrator you also have other minor jobs you can go under and still hold the same title. Those jobs include: clinical manager, Health information manager, and Nursing home administrators. Each of those jobs hold the same responsibility as a health care administrator. The only difference is each of those jobs carry a small amount of responsibility compared to working in a big city hospital as a health care administrator.To become a Health service manager, you need at least a bachelor’s degree to enter the field. However, furthering your education to a master’s degree in very common in the field and sometimes preferred by higher authority. To be qualified and set in the field you must go under one year of supervised administration in a hospital or healthcare setting. You also must have very important qualities to apply for this job which consist of communication skills, Leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and technical skills.
The median annual wage for a health service manager was about 97,350 in May of 2017. Nursing care facilities made around $82,950, offices of physicians 89,760, Government $106,230, and Hospital topped out at $107,230. On average 90% of medical health service managers work full time and have to be on call in case of an emergency. Being a part of this field has a lot of pros and cons. One of the top pros is salary earnings. Health care administration offer a wide variety of jobs both small and big that will guarantee you a healthy earning. The next pro is job stability, having stability is a huge part of going to college in the first place.
Knowing that your college degree will lead to you have having a job is a great feeling. Being a health care administration is a job that will always have stability of its own. You will always need people to run a hospital and run many of health care places if human is on earth. The cons however to be a healthcare administrator are very stressful. Knowing that a hospital is open day and night means managers have to always be on call to come in just in case of a emergency. Managing doctors and nurses can be stressful because even though they are busy in their everyday lives at work they still have private lives of their own. You see a lot of sickness and death being in a hospital every day. That alone can take a toll on you mentally if you are not careful.
When using the Holland code all my questions came out with results of being in the medical field. My career options were medical assistant, respiratory therapist, registered nurse, and nurse practitioners. I was not very surprised about my Holland code results because I have always known health care was for me. I love working with people and making them smile. Seeing a patient happy makes me happy. Knowing that I will be able to assist doctors and nurses and train they to make other people happy is a joy to me.
May 16,2020 is my anticipated graduation date. I have had many set backs from reaching this date. However, I also have had a lot of support from my family to push forward and meet my goal of graduating. I have taken my academic classes way more serious than I first did when I started college. After graduating I plan on giving myself no more than six months to actually find my job in an ideal location. Moving from central Georgia is also a plan I have after graduating and searching for my dream job. I hope everything I’m working so hard for pays off and I get to enjoy life and have fun while doing it.
