Healthcare Career Research Paper

My paper will give you insight on my healthcare profession. I choose healthcare administration as my career choice. The reason I choose this was because I have always wanted to work in healthcare in a management role and this degree will take me to where I want to be. A quick look into the career of an administrator. They manage hospitals and specific departments or clinics within the hospital medical and diagnostic laboratories. They are also responsible for directing and coordination of health services. Healthcare administration is a great career if you would like to get into a leadership role within any of these places. Not only do you get to run the day to day of the facility but you will also be in charge of some hiring and finance roles

as well. This career path has endless possibilities for someone who enjoys a behind the scenes role in healthcare. It will also give you a good idea of why I choose this filed and what made me want to get into healthcare in the beginning. It will also give you my goal for once I have finished with school and plan to do with my future. Also some education background you need to get started in this field.
Some education requirements for this career do require you to get a bachelor’s degree are higher some may even want for you to have a master’s degree.it depends on if you want to be a CEO of a company are if you just would like to be an office manager. You will need a background in business and other related fields in order to be successful in this field. You will only need this and experience in order to get a job in this field. You only need to get a certification if you want to be able to work in a nursing home are an assistant living facility. Working in this field you could be in finance are you could work in settings where you deal with patients all the time while running a small clinic with a few employees are even running a billing department it depends on your background.
Some traits that you will need in order to work in this field are to be a leader to have strong communication skills to be able to follow rules and to be able to make sure that the employees are doing the same thing. You have to have a great attitude and love to work with people. I have learned from doing some exercises in this class that I am not very strong when it comes to telling people what to do. I am always trying to give people the benefit of the doubt I fill that if you know your job description then you shouldn’t have to be told over and over again what it is that you need to be doing all the time. So I know that is something I need to work on in order to be in a management role. I also need to work on maybe some time management since that is important as well. I think I would do a great job in management since I have always had leadership roles in my career so far.I am always been seeped out by my managers to help others and provide training since they think that I am a great people person and I get along with people so well and plus I am such a fast learner that I can pass on what I have learned to someone else and they are able to understand really quick. I enjoy working in groups and working on projects and I am always the one to take on the role as the leader of the project so I am sure I will do great in management and I am really big on following the rules and not taking short cuts . I could probably work on letting others take the lead sometimes to but if I don’t show that I am a leader I will never get ahead.
My career goal once I have completed this program will be to continue on with my master’s degree so that I could get a position where I am actually running the company.

My dream job is to get into mental health I would like to own and operate my own mental health facility. I feel like it is something that we really need here in New Orleans and it would be a big help. I feel like my facility would benefit a lot of people with mental health issues and their families. I plan to offer classes to the family so that they could earn how to properly deal with their family member who is going thru a mental health break down. I will also deal with people who are suicidal. My facility will also offer long term care where you can come and stay so that you won’t have to be on the street and dealing with you mental health problems. At my facility I will offer different counsel classes for drug addiction as well since they have so many people out here that really need the help and not enough is being done to provide the help that everyone needs. They have very little resources for people suffering from addiction here where I am from. I have seen other places that I have visited that they offer free places for people to go and seek help and even offer them

shelter.
How I hope that Kaplan University can help me with my career goal is to assist with job placement and continuing education. Also with careers training threw counseling and mentorship. Kaplan helps me achieve my goals by allowing me to continue my education at my own paste being able to go to school online gives me more time to spend with my family and it allows me to be able to work full time. Hopefully they would also be able to help me find some resources for my future plan in opening up my own mental health facility. Maybe I could even come back and tell someone of my experience that I had at the school and encourage someone else to do the same as I did. Kaplan allows me to go to classes anytime of the day they let me work full time and attend classes on my own schedule not like a regular college I like the flexibility more than anything. I am just hoping to get out of the whole experience a great chance at a new career and I know if I keep up all the hard work it will pay off and Kaplan can help me with that they have some many resources that are able to help with career searching and data information and if I change my mind and want to change my degree plan it is very simple.
My five year plan as of now is to finish school first and to start on my future plans to open up my own mental health facility.

It will take a lot of hard work and tons of dedication but in the end I will be doing something that I love to do and that is helping people. I know I have a lot of work to do and I may even need to get some experience under my belt but I plan on sticking to my goal so I can be successful in my future. If my plan doesn’t work out I can always be a manager in my current field of medical billing it is a short term goal but anything is possible if you put your mind to it.Since I started from the bottom with my career in healthcare I want to move all the way to the top I don’t mind putting in the long hours and time with going back to school to get all the education I need in order for me to reach my goals. I have been in healthcare for over 14 years I started with little experience all because I went to the hospital one day for a spider bite and knew right then that this is where I need to be in healthcare . my nurse was so nice to me and she explained everything I needed to do once I left the hospital that day and what my reactions would be from the bite and since that day on I have never looked back I started school to become a medical assistant and I did that for a few years then I moved to phlebotomy and then medical billing and decided to go get certified as a medical coder and now I am getting my bachelor’s degree I am so proud of myself it has

been a very long road for me I would have never thought I would be here at all I hated high school and couldn’t wait to get out. Look at me know I have completed to diploma programs and received my associated degree all while being a single parent to two kids and I did it all on my own and managed to graduate with Honors from all of my programs. I have big dreams for myself and my family and thanks to Kaplan I am well on my way.