HCS 325 Health Care Management Paper
Assessment
Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs
Health Care Management
HCS 325
Karissa Stewart
April 25, 2013
Assessment
What is a leader? “Leaders are individuals who are able to bring out the best in other people” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007, p. 245). Working as a leader is a great responsibility to the person holding the job. Good leaders learn from their experiences and use that knowledge in future problems.
The four major functions of management in a heath care setting.
“Organizing is the process of assigning tasks, allocating resources, and arranging and coordinating the activities of individuals and groups to implement plans” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007, p. 46). Being an organized manager helps with every aspect of the job and handling …show more content…
Organization is a natural progress in maintaining a good work environment for this student. Others in management struggle with this function, but it is vital in maintaining a daily flow and progress of records for budgeting. Planning for future events, meetings, and time-off for employees is essential to maintaining office schedules and time management. This student maintains the physicians daily, weekly, and vacation schedules so that there are minimal problems with scheduling patient appointments and administrative meetings. Controlling is a new task that this student deals with in minimal measure. This student is the contact person in the office because the office is in transition with management in our office. This student updates the interim manager on the needs and issues in our office on a daily and weekly basis giving her the ability to manage her multiple offices without being onsite. Leading is a natural process for this student. In the past, this student has been the manager of our private practice but, with the transition to being a hospital owned office that role has evaporated to the established management team within the organization. The staff still comes to this student with problems and guidance this student is limited to what this student can do but try to help the staff as much as this student …show more content…
In the opinion of this student, the most important role for a health care manager is leadership. Managers rely on their staffs to do the duties given to them so that the manager can focus on other tasks. It is imperative that staff take on tasks and duties that the manager needs the outcomes of the results for the reports the manager has to submit to higher management. Giving staff duties also helps create an integrated office where the staff feels involved with the management processes that have been unobtainable in past management styles.
The most significant aspect related to health care management that you want to gain by taking this
Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs
Health Care Management
HCS 325
Karissa Stewart
April 25, 2013
Assessment
What is a leader? “Leaders are individuals who are able to bring out the best in other people” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007, p. 245). Working as a leader is a great responsibility to the person holding the job. Good leaders learn from their experiences and use that knowledge in future problems.
The four major functions of management in a heath care setting.
“Organizing is the process of assigning tasks, allocating resources, and arranging and coordinating the activities of individuals and groups to implement plans” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007, p. 46). Being an organized manager helps with every aspect of the job and handling …show more content…
Organization is a natural progress in maintaining a good work environment for this student. Others in management struggle with this function, but it is vital in maintaining a daily flow and progress of records for budgeting. Planning for future events, meetings, and time-off for employees is essential to maintaining office schedules and time management. This student maintains the physicians daily, weekly, and vacation schedules so that there are minimal problems with scheduling patient appointments and administrative meetings. Controlling is a new task that this student deals with in minimal measure. This student is the contact person in the office because the office is in transition with management in our office. This student updates the interim manager on the needs and issues in our office on a daily and weekly basis giving her the ability to manage her multiple offices without being onsite. Leading is a natural process for this student. In the past, this student has been the manager of our private practice but, with the transition to being a hospital owned office that role has evaporated to the established management team within the organization. The staff still comes to this student with problems and guidance this student is limited to what this student can do but try to help the staff as much as this student …show more content…
In the opinion of this student, the most important role for a health care manager is leadership. Managers rely on their staffs to do the duties given to them so that the manager can focus on other tasks. It is imperative that staff take on tasks and duties that the manager needs the outcomes of the results for the reports the manager has to submit to higher management. Giving staff duties also helps create an integrated office where the staff feels involved with the management processes that have been unobtainable in past management styles.
The most significant aspect related to health care management that you want to gain by taking this