Professional Development

Health care management is the core of all the health care system globally (Sharon Buchbinder, 2011). As such, health care officials play an essential role in the health care system to ensure that everything runs smoothly for a better and healthy society. For this reason, health care managers like me have to continuously improve themselves at a personal level and a professional level. The fact that health care managers make choices that affects other people’s lives, it is critical that they be at their best on decision making and management skills.

Trends in the health care industry keep on evolving time and again. There are always new diseases that come up every day that need new solutions. New inventions in the health care industry keep on coming every day to make the lives of people better and easier. For a health care manager to be efficient, he or she has to study the past events, current events and be able to note specific trends with which he can make a decision (McKinsey, 2009). The management of people is also critical. A good health care manager has to be able to manage the people in the best way possible. With this management, he / she will be able to create a pleasant and serene environment in which health care practitioners and patients can be able to fully run the activities at their best.

An organization that is able to meet the current and future challenges is dynamic and innovative (Walshe, 2011). The organization focuses on empowering its people to be able to solve issues. People empowerment gives the organization the necessary skills to handle any challenges while proper training enables the organization to anticipate future potential problems. The dynamic nature of the organization is a clear sign of its adaptability to issues that arise along the way. Health care organizations must also display care for its people. Care is demonstrated by treating the people with respect and humanely. High ethical standards also characterize effective health care organizations as they perform according to the highest standards of professionalism possible.

Personally, I have good listening skills and also a lot of creativity. This gives me an upper hand as a leader and a health care manager. In concise, my team is always having a pool of ideas from which we implement policies. Involvement of other members of staff in decision making processes has been of great help in the management process. The decisions end up being better and well informed. However, I think I need to focus more on the area of innovation. There is need to come up with better, faster, easier and applicable solutions based on the environment in which we are. With limited resources, the only way to ensure that there is effective performance in the organization and in the entire health care industry is through continuous innovation.

All health care managers have to consciously improve themselves through various ways (Haddock, 2002). Personally, I am currently taking a masters degree course in the health care management. This will equip me with more skills with which my work will be more effective. I have also gained access to a lot of knowledgeable material on issues to do with healthcare from attending seminars, discussions and forums where I get to interact with my peers in the industry. Use of technology and social media has also come in handy. I have joined various groups with other healthcare practitioners where we get to share our success and challenges while discussing solutions for current and future problems.

References

Haddock, C. C., & McLean, R. D. (2002). “Careers in Healthcare Management: How to Find your Path and Follow It.” Chicago: Health Administration Press.

McKinsey. (2009). Management in Healthcare: Why Good Practise Really Matter. London School of Economics.

Sharon Buchbinder, N. S. (2011). Introduction to Health Care Management. Jones and BArlette Publishers.

Walshe, K. S. (2011). Healthcare Managemnet . McGrow Hill International.