Healthcare Management
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healthcare_industry_wk_2.docxHealth Administration 2
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Instructions: Please ensure to substantiate your response with scholarly sources and/or also a personal account of your own experience in the work place or personal life. Cite and reference work! Must be 150 -200 word count.
1. This week’s electronic reserve readings offers great insight to the struggle of nurses managing nurses. Nursing is an honorable profession but things do happen. It has been my experience in the industry that nurses managing nurses is a popular management style. I think this is unfortunate, many nurses have resistance to someone similar to them conducting the management. I appreciate a manger, then a lead floor nurse, etc... I just feel like the floor nurse can be in charge of managing the nursing staff and reporting to the manager, but when management needs to get involved to implement changes or do damage control things change a lot quicker. Together a management team is stronger than just the solo approach, a lead nurse can explain to the manager how the team is affected by a situation or event. The manager may not have years of nursing but will know how to recognize struggles and motivate the department. I definitely think managers that are on the floor as nurses have an advantage as part of the management team, however; it is very difficult to lead the team due to the demands of management.
2. I totally agree with you. I have seen nurses who have a 2 year degree who care much stronger in many respects including leadership compared to some nurses who have a Master's. Much of this is due to experience. I think an educated younger nurse needs to take time to mature and learn from their colleagues. Respect should be offered at every level of the healthcare team. That is the trait of a true leader. Education for nurses is very important but at the same time we need to acknowledge natural strong traits as well as experience. A strong leader of nursing staff will encourage their nurses and other staff to blossom in their roles by continuing their education and by meeting with their staff on a regular basis to assess their needs. I am curious what other experiences you have all had related to topics such as this.
3. It has been my experience over the 28 years of nursing I have lived through, that too many times, inexperienced nurses have had to take on the role of charge nurse, plus take on a patient load. I do not know if this is due to the shortage in nursing or not. I feel that nurses who have the most experience should take lead. The reason I say this, is because experience teaches different management stylos. I, as a charge nurse, support the nurse under me, and treat them as my equals with a style that nurses respond to readily. A nurse who only has 2-3 years experience, should never be in charge. It's too much for them. When I look back on my career, many management styles have surfaced. Some nurses are more comfortable with a dictator style of management. It is a "do what I say," type of being in charge. There should always be someone above the nurse manager, or charge nurse, as conflict of interests arise. The only way to solve differences, at times is to have a meeting between the nurses at odds. This is where standards of care can save the day. Standards of care are created by the most experienced doctors and nurses. So, if there be conflict, I would think the charge nurse or nurse manager need only to look to those standards, which are usually a part of the EMS system.
4. Review Health Care Challenges for the 21st Century and discuss your thoughts in 150- 200 words. http://www.gao.gov/challenges/healthcare.pdf
5. Review Preparing the 21st Century Global Healthcare Workforce and discuss your thoughts in 150- 200 words. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554912/
6. One strategy I have used is to include some of the frontline staff in assisting with planning for and rolling out changes. These staff they get input from other staff so everyone has a say. When I have involved staff in this manner, they have a better understanding on different initiatives and the changes are much more sustainable. Has anyone else experienced this approach and what are your thoughts?
7. When evaluating healthcare careers which you will do as a healthcare leader. Compare and contrast the pros and cons of two career roles in health care (e.g. clinical practitioners vs management and administration).
8. Interesting opening statement "Education is a critical part of the health care profession but experience is profound in the industry.". I took a class where the question was would I hire someone with experience or something with the educational background. Prior to taking the class, I would have hired experience over education. Now that I am almost done with my higher education, I would have to hire based on education. There are some professions where experience is critical but I am starting to see the big picture where education becomes very important. I look at my teams and sometimes I get very frustrated at work. I hear them talk about management and how we do what we want in the department. With all the experience that they have, they will never understand the decisions made by management and how it impacts the organization. They do not understand the basic concept of what it takes to run an organization.
9. Scenario: Currently working as Support Coordinator and Behavioral Assistant. Not my career field! Have a BS in
Healthcare Administration-Health Management and pursuing Nursing degree for 1 year program and wants to
further my Nursing degree to a doctoral level. I feel like an amateur compared to people with a BS in Nursing or
Masters degree in a degree .and with 5 – 7 years’ experience and managing a clinic and hospital.
Looking at the program outcomes, how will you assess your personal improvement? What tools will you use to determine your personal growth in the areas of the program outcomes?
10. I would assess my personal growth via a SWOT process. The SWOT process is a bi-functional tool to evaluate external environmental issues, such as opportunities and threats to an outcome of a project. The other aspect of this tool involves separating the external from the internal analysis, such as oneself, a facility project, or a stakeholders position. I would use this tool with respect to the outcomes of this program to determine the outcome of my own success.
S: (strengths) I have definitely learned so much about the process of being a leader. I've learned about Medicare/Medicaid/CHIP processes, and regulatory entities as well. I will use this information as a manager in healthcare to help me further my career and become an owner of an Adult Daycare.
W: (weaknesses) I will need living experience of this field of healthcare. I have never worked at an Adult Daycare, but know that they will be needed in the future as the world's population gets older. This program did not prepare me for live experience.
O: (opportunities) To be an effective leader, one must have knowledge about how to be a leader. This program has given me the opportunity to try out new skills I have learned as I complete the program. This program provided me with the opportunity for career advancement, and I have accumulated the knowledge I need to be an effective leader. Now comes practice.
T: (threats) A real threat for me as a administrator of an Adult Daycare, is my back condition. Medically, I am not sure if I can work. I need one more surgery, and with God's help, I will be better. Disability has not diminished my quest for knowledge, and this course has fulfilled that.
11. I liked your statement in which you said you learned to look at different situations and you know what to look for in individuals who you want to work with you, and I think about this all time. I think we all have those individuals who come into work happy to be there and motivated to work, and those are the people we want to be around because they are just a joy to be around and work together with. However, in my experience I don't feel as though education would change my perspective in who I want to work with me as a person's personality and work ethics means more to me. For example, I work as a medical case manager for disabled Veterans for the Department of Veterans Affairs and many of us are Veterans (I want to say 98% of employees are Veterans) and so many of us utilized our Post 9/11 GI Bill (free school for 3 years plus a monthly housing stipend) so practically everyone has their Bachelor's or Master's degrees and I've noticed in my particular field, it hasn't made a difference what degree someone holds- it's their work ethic and personality which makes them a great employee and successful within the organization.
12. What is the benefit of a personal reflection? How do you think personal reflection will help with career development? (Becoming a Health Administrator in a Hospital or Pharmaceutical company and have my own company)
13. The health care industry has evolved over the last decade. The health care market has been impacted by changes in technology as well as the financial and economic evolution of the industry. Imagine you have been given the opportunity to participate in a health care seminar as a guest speaker. You have been asked to discuss the evolution of the health care industry from a technology, finance, and economic perspective.
Write a 1050- to 1400-word paper discussing the past, present, and future of the health care industry in relation to technology, finance, and economics. Your paper should address each of the following:
Past
· Analyze how the health care industry has changed in the last 10 years.
· Analyze how the use of technology has changed within the health care industry in the last 10 years.
· Analyze how finance and economics has impacted the healthcare industry in the last 10 years.
· Analyze financial and economic tools and methods used to address issues in the health care industry in the last 10 years.
· Analyze how payment sources and mechanisms used in the health care industry have changed in the last 10 years.
Present
· Analyze the role technology plays in health care organizations today.
· Analyze the current state of the health care industry.
· Analyze financial and economic tools and methods being used in the health care industry today.
· Analyze current payment sources and mechanisms used in the health care industry today.
Future
· Analyze the role technology will play in the health care industry in the coming decade.
· Analyze the financial and economic issues the health care industry will encounter the next 10 years.
· Analyze if the financial and economic tools and methods currently being used in the health care industry will be effective in the coming decade.
· Analyze if the payment sources and mechanism currently being used in the health care industry will be effective in the next 10 years.
· Analyze what you think will be the biggest changes in the health care industry in the next 10 years.
Include at least three references. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Must have Introduction and Conclusion. Check for grammatical error. Submit separate!
