I decided as a child that I wanted to ‘make a difference’ rather than merely ‘make a living’ and had vague intentions of working in some health-related field, especially since I was fascinated by science. However, for several reasons, this goal was postponed, and I began my working life in retail, followed by a period as a medical secretary and then a brief period working in banking. At that point, having become a mother, I carefully considered my career situation, my skills and interests and decided to pursue my original goal of following a career in healthcare and to acquire a relevant degree.
After some research, I chose to pursue a bachelor's degree in medical technology in which I earned the BS in 2012. This was an excellent decision and one that I shall never regret. I thoroughly enjoyed my studies and subsequent work in the field.
However, I have reached a point at which I wish to make a greater impact in the field of healthcare. During my work to date, I have become increasingly aware of the remarkably close relationship between excellent administration and the excellence of care provided to patients. It is now my objective to advance the quality of healthcare by acquiring the skills and knowledge required to provide the excellent administration that underpins it. My current work requires excellent planning skills, meticulous record keeping and close cooperation with other healthcare professionals all of which provide a good basis for understanding the ‘bigger picture’.
My ultimate objective is to hold a senior executive role in health administration. I would see my role primarily as providing a platform to enable and encourage healthcare providers of all specialties and grades to perform their roles at optimum effectiveness for patient benefit.
I see the removal of any administrative obstacles as being a basic matter and one that should be subject to constant monitoring and action as appropriate. I would seek to minimize the administrative demands on clinicians while simultaneously enabling them to have easy access to relevant, accurate, reliable, and up to date patient, statistical and other relevant information.
I am originally from the Dominican Republic and am aware that poor healthcare administration in that country and others is a crucial factor in the poor standard of available care.
Lax management encourages the corrupt practices that abound, and I would hope that I might have the opportunity to provide training for healthcare administrators to improve attitudes, procedures, and systems to improve the situation.
I have happily worked, studied, and socialized with people from many cultures and social backgrounds. I get on easily with others and am regarded as a calm person who takes challenges in her stride and seeks to help colleagues whenever possible. I am enthusiastic about my work and like to encourage others to give their best and to recognize and seek to fulfill their career potential.
Recently a situation arose in which an unusually heavy workload coincided with the arrival of a new Laboratory Chief who wanted to introduce various changes that involved our supervisors in having to concentrate on administrative work instead of aiding us in our day-to-day work. Most team members resented the imposition of momentous change during a period of heavy workflow, and some decided to work more slowly than usual to exaggerate the effects and so force management to recruit extra staff, redirect the supervisors to ‘bench work’ or to postpone administrative changes.
I have always focused on the fact that the work that we do relates to anxious patients and their relatives but it was clear that some of my colleagues were failing to make this connection and I sought, in a gentle but determined manner, to remind them that we could not permit our problems to impact detrimentally on the lives of patients and that we should do all that we could to provide quality output as quickly as possible while handling the changes as well as we could.
I cannot claim that I was alone in these efforts, but I did take a leading, if informal, role in resolving a potentially serious situation which was finally resolved.
MHA Health Administration Personal Statement Example
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