Becoming A Administrator At The Grand Valley Surgical Center

As a manager for a large department her job duties are quite extensive. She manages over forty employees. She reinforces compliance of staff with hospital policies, gives informal/formal feedback regarding performance throughout the year, promotes staff development, and uses effective listening, writing, and verbal skills. She promotes satisfaction targets related to patients, employees, and physicians, actively participates in, and leads interdisciplinary teams. Alicia also assist the director in maintain departmental budget, monitors supply utilization and maintains budgeted targets, and responsible for an efficient and accurate payroll.

Finally, administrative workers to functions in the office, perform grant research and writing to identify funding to support these positions and meet regularly with the other staff to determine if we were providing effective services and to keep statistics on the level and quality of the services we provide (Executive Director).

Leadership experiences can come in a variety of ways. From holding an executive position to leading a subcommittee of a student organization, leadership opportunities exist in many ways at the University of Georgia. My leadership consist of experiences that are not typically thought of when leadership is considered. Through my experiences, I learned that serving others is to genuinely lead in my positions as a resident assistant and an IMPACT site-leader.

This position has allowed me to become well versed in university and housing policy and I am well trained in how to perform not only the administrative tasks required by this position, but also how to handle conduct reporting and sensitive situations regarding students. Due to my experience as a Community Assistant, I am confident in my abilities to perform the duties that the office of Conferences & Event Services will require of me, if selected for this position. Upon first transferring to Clarion, I took a job with the Center for Leadership and Development as the Student Leadership Coordinator for Clarion University. During my time in this position I developed leadership programming for Clarion University and coordinated and planned events such as the Mary Walter Speaker Series. During my time working with the Mary Walter Speaker Series, we focused on mental health and the dispelling of mental health stigmas.

She is responsible for all facets of the office operations including human resources, claims generation, internal claim audits, and cash room management.

A disadvantage would be that there is not a very wide variety of career expansion. An advantage would be great salary. It can be very repetitive as a disadvantage. An advantage would be minimal schooling.

The ASC (Ambulatory Surgical Center) provides a variety of career opportunities. Basically, a ASC is a health care facility where surgical procedures not requiring an overnight hospital stay are performed. I have been able to shadow several jobs within the ASC. Out of all the careers, a PACU nurse sparked an interest. PACU Nurses are specialized to work in the post anesthesia care unit. They provide intensive care and treatment for patients who have gone under anesthesia. PACU RNs can also be referred to as a recovery room nurse.

Roles: Higher administration at the district level will develop strategic priorities to ensure success of the plan each year. Building administration, teachers and staff will implement plans at the building

It is with great enthusiasm that I recommend Ashraf Abdeljaber, AAMC ID: 13089832 as a promising candidate to the Family Medicine residency program at your institution. I supervised Ashraf during his geriatrics elective rotation at Jackson Park hospital where I got to observe him closely and I have nothing but high praises for him.

I had the opportunity to speak with the human resources/compensation specialist at a non-profit community mental health agency, The Providence Center, in Providence, the largest city in Rhode Island. This individual is the head of recruiting, hiring, training, compensating and personnel for all of the departments within this facility and works with/collaborates with the management of each of the departments/programs within this facility.

The Veterans Administration Medical Center hospital system has been in the national headlines for many years. This has generally not been in a positive way. Many issues have tarnished the reputation of the VA system including, in the distant past questions of sterilization issues reportedly resulting in veterans contracting Hepatitis C from a colonoscope (Tasker, 2011), to more current issues with access and timeliness of care for veterans ("Memo shows VA gaming appointments system to hide wait times", 2014; "Nearly 100 patients died waiting for care from los angeles VA", 2017). Our local Veterans Administration Medical Center is no different and has recently been in the spotlight for similar reasons including wait lists and delay in

Samantha Ivan had been an employee of ACA for 15 years where she entered the company at an entry level staff manager position. She had worked her way through several promotions to the Director of Service Management, where she oversaw the all district managers

Cons: Incur loss in the first year; hard to find an advisor whose work ethic and values are similar to the company’s; takes time and effort to train

Major responsibilities consist of making sure employees are happy and follow through with their jobs. Balancing the budget and keeping it probable and also right now since their short staffed she has more responsibilities but is in the middle of getting it under control. She is also a Registered Nurse, so when patients need help and their short staffed of Registered Nurses then she will go out and take care of patients also. (C. Spencer, personal communication, March 26, 2017)

Most organizations view human resources departments as less valuable than other departments because it’s not a revenue- generating department. However, it is quite the opposite because HR brings the organization its most valuable assets, which are its people.