Daily Activities: Recruitment and Management of Staff

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Background
Health administrators require healthcare industry knowledge, soft skills and increasingly business management skills in the administration of health institutions. Health administrators/ managers/ executives work in health care settings, but also liaise with other people in various environments. Hospital administrators ensure that the daily operations of the hospital run smoothly. Similar to other people in leadership positions, administrators manage people, resources and facilities to ensure smooth running (Morrison, 2015). Health administrators may perform specialist or general functions, and they coordinate activities across multiple departments. The hospital administrators make decisions, solve problems, collaborate with stakeholders conduct budgetary functions and manage talent in hospitals. The health executives also have social responsibilities to improve health outcomes while managing resources.
Recruitment and management of staff
One of the major functions of hospital administers is to recruit and hire the hospital staff. The administrators are also tasked with evaluating the assistant administrators and staff members. Even though, it is necessary to recruit high professional. There are ethical concerns in recruitment of staff since they ought to be competent and be hired without favoring any of them, while compensating them comparably to similar institutions, while considering their skills and likely input in the hospital (Kirby, 2010). The administrator helps in conflict management when necessary, and this makes it easier to build a positive working relationship and rapport with the local community.
Managing the facility
The role of managing the facility and improving health care operations is necessary, if the administrator is to rely on best practices. The administrators are charged with controlling and coordinating the health services, while liaising with stakeholders to ensure that all there is nether breakdown or slowdown in operations. The administrator must work within the budget constraints while allocating the resources to ensure that the functions of all the departments are well coordinated. Managing the hospital facility provides an opportunity for the administrators to demonstrate stewardship accounting and fiscal responsibility.
Coordinating services
The hospital administrators ensure that patients receive timely service while optimizing health care outcomes. To achieve this, it is necessary to direct and coordinating activities in various departments. Having a better understanding of the inner workings of the hospital including reliance on medical records improves service provision. The administrators also ensure that the services available to meet the hospital need (Morrison, 2015). When coordinating health care, the administrators are responsible for improving healthcare delivery and this may require funding innovation to the required departments.
Ensuring compliance
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