Prepared health care administrator
As you complete your studies as a master’s-prepared health care administrator, what role do you envision for yourself? As you know by now, there are many roles and areas of specialty from which to choose. Since you have almost completed your master’s degree, imagine you have been asked by your dean to make a presentation to a group of undergraduate students who are considering becoming health care administrators.
Your ultimate goal is to sell a health care administrator career to this group of undergraduate students by using all the duties of a healthcare administrator from the What Medical and Health Services Managers DoLinks to an external site. page of the Occupational Outlook HandbookLinks to an external site. website, and then personalizing it to how you envision health care will succeed in the next decade.
Assignment Instructions
Write a 1-2 page executive summary of your presentation, plus a 3-5 page paper where you will synthesize the functions of the master’s-prepared health care administrator, including role, responsibilities, and priorities. You will also need to touch on all major components of a health care administrator, such as, but not limited to, human resources, finance, information technology, regulatory topics, and leadership.
For this assignment, you will focus on the following six duties from the What Medical and Health Services Managers DoLinks to an external site. page of the Occupational Outlook Handbook website:
Improve efficiency and quality in delivering healthcare services
Develop departmental goals and objectives
Ensure that the facility in which they work is up to date on laws and regulations and in compliance.
Recruit, train, and supervise staff members
Manage the finances of the facility, such as patient fees and billing
Create work schedules
