Paper Assignment: What Is Health Care Administration/Management
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to improve your business writing communication skills. In the field of health administration, you will be required to draft professional documents in response to various situations.
Competencies: Upon completion of this assignment you will be expected to have obtained the following skills:
1. Describe in your own words what the health administration profession is based on scholarly resources and professional organizations information.
2. Compare and contrast various points of view regarding the health care profession.
In addition, you will be expected to be knowledgeable of the following skills:
3. Analyze formal and informal communication.
4. Compare/contrast the effectiveness of various communication methods.
5. Design effective communications for a wide variety of situations in healthcare organizations
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
1. Managerial/leadership functions
2. Professional Development and Life Long Learning
Task:
1. Search AUPHA org website for information regarding healthcare administration and career paths.
2. Perform a library search for peer-reviewed scholarly articles on healthcare administration.
3. Compose a 2-3-page paper formatted in APA style with parenthetical citations to support your observations. Use your references to answer the following:
• How does that AUPHA define healthcare administration.
• What qualifications, characteristics should a healthcare administrator possess according to the AUPHA.
• How do you personally define healthcare administration?
• What characteristics do you believe a health care administrator should possess?
• Compare and contrast your definitions to that of the AUPHA.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.