How Do Healthcare Administrators Affect My Future Profession

Health care administrators influence a lot of different areas in the world of medicine. The leadership that these professionals show paves the future not only for the companies they manage, but the health care organization as a whole. I have gathered information from three different sources on healthcare administration including salary, educational requirements, and skills and competencies, in the unit 5 individual project. I have really scanned through the information and have included what I have found to be the most accurate information from good reliable sources; the summary is below.
While researching the salary ranges for my future job profession I found a variety of salary ranges. The source that I found to be the most reliable out of all sources, was sources from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median annual wage for all health care administrators is $101,340 as of May 2013. For the bottom ten percent of earners, the median salary is $55,470, while the median income of the top ten percent is $155,130” (Davilla, n.d.). I believe that this is the most reliable source on salary statistics, the U.S.
I feel one of the key skills a healthcare administrator should have is the ability to communicate. If you have skills and knowledge and don’t know how to communicate them to your work environment, then you have not accomplished anything. Due to healthcare always changing and always improving, administrators are responsible for adjusting to new areas in healthcare law, technology, and policies, and following up with company changes to these polices. They need to be creative, organized, flexible, analytical, understanding, have a good attitude, handle stress, and be able to bounce back from things that don’t go as planned, and grown