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Essay On Becoming A Health Care Administrator

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As an administrator of a long-term care facility you must ensures a smooth, yet highly quality and professional acceptable operation. You may spend a lot of time in meetings, conference calls and other things that involve your facility. You also may have to attend community meeting outside your facility with other administrators and variety of different health care professional. This community meeting will keep you up to date with new development and job functions for you organization. On a day to day basic you will oversee the business office, nursing department and all of your other operational decisions. You will also develop and implements nursing home policies and procedures to comply with federal, state and local requirements and to fulfill licensure …show more content…

You can also be a graduated from a three year nursing program as a Register Nurse plus two years of experience. Also you can have an associate degree/sixty semester hours/90 quarter hours of college credits and two years of experience. Then last but not least you can also have a high school diploma/GED and complete four approved college classes in Nursing Home Administration, Personnel Management, Accounting and Financial Management and Social Gerontology/Geriatrics. If the individual meets all the requirements and have the experience they may fill out an application on the website. All application must be filled out sixty days prior to the test date. The test is broken down into five parts Leadership & Management with is 23% of the test. The second part is Human Resources with is 15% of the test. The third part is Physical Environment & Atmosphere with is 13% of the test. The fourth part is Resident Care & Quality of life which is 35% of the test. Then the last part is Finance which is 14% of the test. Licensure is required and must be maintained through continuing education credits, certification is

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