Summary: A Career As A Nursing Home Administrator

The continuously changing long-term care environment requires health care administrators to protect the interests of residents they care for while effectively managing and leading their healthcare teams. For leaders, the path to being a great one is not an easy one because, there will always be the good times, the bad times and sometimes there will be terrible times. The only thing that will set a great leader apart is his/her ability to always lead the team to success. Successful long-term care facilities incorporate varying management and leadership principles to encourage, support, empower, and coach employees. Engaged and motivated employees result in

The Health care administrators manage the business of health care. They create and maintain budgets, hire and supervise personnel, and ensure compliance with state and federal regulations. In bigger settings, like hospitals, a top-level health care administrator may emphasis on long-term goals and policy-making for the facility, while assistant administrators oversee the financial, personnel, and management issues of specific departments. Most health systems administrator earns a bachelor's or master's degree in public health or nursing, hospital or business administration. The salary for a Health systems administrator starts at $75,000 to 100,000 depending on the number years in the workforce. Health care administrators that work as nursing home administrators must obtain certification through the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB).

Since I was a child, I always wondered the various jobs that I could be. I even though about being a garbage collector, rockstar, doctor, and a scientist. I had wanted to become a stay at home mother, just like my mom was at the time. I wanted to be just like my mom who packed lunch for her kids, tucked them in bed, and even read bed time stories. When I was about nine years old, I was brought into the hostpital due to an allergic reaction to flan. I wasn't able to breathe and I felt as if my lungs had collapsed on me. A doctor had examined me and knocked me out with some kind of drug at the time. I woke up and all I knew was that I could finally breathe again. The doctor then greeted me and at that moment I wanted to save lifes just like the

In 5 years I want to go to college and get my degree in engineering and maybe work on cars for a living or I am going to be a state cop and chase people down and catch them. It depends on the way I want to go. I am sure I will find a job that suits me fine. I can’t wait till I get to college and get my own car to drive around in but until 5 years are over looks like I’m sticking to my bike.

In five years, I know I would have a steady, nursing job at a veteran's hospital (well I have to graduate first), buy a house I want and a car that I've always dream of

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My many years in long term healthcare as a Nursing Home Administer, as well as, several interim positions as Director of Nursing gives me a well-rounded approach to management and resident care. I hold and Indiana Healthcare Facility Administrators license and a Registered Nursing license in Indiana

To successfully run healthcare organizations, healthcare administrators must possess various complementary abilities. While interning at the administration office at the St. Vincent Jennings Hospital, I have learned a variety of skills that will be essential to my future career. The three domains of skills include communication, professionalism, and knowledge of a healthcare environment.

A hospital administrator helps in the communication process by letting the patient know about the hospital procedure by creating a patient care program that address the patient needs and reduce their anxiety. Nonetheless, hospital administrators also have management duties which include planning, staffing, coordinating, reporting, evaluation, organization and staffing. The management function of the hospital administrators requires a lot of knowledge, reasoning, foresight and acquisition of special techniques and experience. In addition, hospital administrators aid in the hospital decision-making process through providing dynamic and flexible insight to help the organization make informed choices. The focus of hospital administration is to ensure that the management process is running efficiently and its decisions comply with hospital policies and federal laws. More pertinently, hospital administrators help in supervision and coordination of workers by ensuring they perform their required tasks with the assigned hospital resources on the stipulated period. In fact, the administration help in carrying out hospital inventories to help improve service provision. In conclusion, it is evident that hospital administrators play a critical role in improving quality care through establishing best practice in service provision and taking actions that improve the delivery

Healthcare is a profession that is demanding, but being an administrator is a field that can reshape the future state of healthcare. As a healthcare administrator there are so many different aspects of healthcare that an individual can be involved in. Administration is the business of healthcare all while trying to run an organization and the providers within. The best way to understand the role of an administrator is through an interview. The interview that was conducted was with a registered nurse that was promoted to the director of the Emergency Department at Virginia Beach General Hospital. This paper will explore the roles of an Administrator and what it takes to run a department or even a facility.

About two years ago, my Oma started getting sick. She was going downhill fast and could no longer get around her apartment by herself. My dad and his sister decided it was best to put her in a home. The book mentions that sometimes elders will resist care and my Oma resisted going into a nursing home. She hated every nursing home that was shown to her and acted as if she could care for herself. She eventually settled on a nursing home since she realized she was getting to weak to get around on her own. My dad lived in Ohio and his sister and mom were in Vancouver, Canada, so my dad could not help care for his mom and visit while she was in the nursing home. This means, since his sister lived closer and was able to help that she had to handle most of the care. Just like the book mentions, a woman is usually in charge of care work and is willing to help especially if they live close by. His sister was a social worker who had the personality for care work and the book states that women tend to be more caring and able to handle care work. His sister would go to the nursing home on almost a daily basis and often took my Oma out of the home to attend her family events. My Oma was difficult because she did not enjoy being in a home but my aunt did not have the ability to care for her and her house.

There are a several options that one can do in order to become a healthcare administrator. The first option is earning a bachelor’s or master’s degree in either a business related major or in healthcare administration. The next option is working in the medical field as a therapist or physician, and then transferring over to administration based on one’s experience and extensive knowledge of the profession (Explore Medical Careers, 2017). No certification is required for administrators to work in hospitals or medical offices. In all states, a healthcare administration certification is only required if one is wanting or interested in working in nursing homes. Some states may require a healthcare administration certification in order to work

In the article Geriatric Nursing: A growing field, by Pearl Merritt EDD, MSN, RN, LaNeigh Harkness MSN, RN, and Vickie Ragsdale PHD, RN, we explore the limitations that have reportedly affected nurses who work in the LTC field.

A nurse administrator must have masters degree in management and administration   Nurse Administrators have experience and knowledge to lead an organization, keep staff performance at peak level and patients safe. nurse administrator is usually responsible for a group of departments, an entire hospital or where us a nurse manager is more likely to have the responsibility for one or more nursing units within the hospital . A nurse administrator often reports to the chief executive officer in the organization or to a vice president directly below the CEO, while nurse managers generally report directly to the nursing administrator. Both positions need basic business skills such as financial management and experience in areas such as human resources,

In my interview with Linda Harmsen , the administrator at a long-term care facility, I discovered that she has a degree in both nursing and business. She decided to become a nurse after her positive experience with the nurses at a hospital in Ottawa when her aunt was going through a miscarriage (L. Harmsen, personal communication, October 23, 2014). From that moment on, her main goal was to become a nurse and she only applied to one school for nursing since she felt that if she was meant to become a nurse, applying to several schools was unnecessary. Needless to say, she got her Registered Nurse license in nursing. However, she also was interested in business and pursued further in her education. Harmsen has experience as a bedside nurse, in retirement, professional practice, and as Director of Care. But, her most enjoyable experiences were in intensive care and project managing.