Health Care Administration Internship Paper (HCA 425)

Health Care Administration Internship (HCA 425)
1. Internship Learning Objectives to be Accomplished by the Student: 
2. The intern will have the opportunity to integrate all previously learned healthcare management and administration concepts, knowledge, and skills in a real-life health care management and administration work environment. 
3. The minimum number of internship hours for the 8 weeks term is 120 hours of internship time.
4. The health care management/administration internship duties and tasks are mutually agreed upon by the interns, the faculty member, and the healthcare organization site supervisor.
5. The intern will be able to develop real-life career skills, in a supervised health care setting.
6. The intern will be able to analyze administrative and ethical issues that arise in managing the business functions of a healthcare organization
7. The intern will be able to compare and contrast approaches to resolving administrative and ethical challenges in business operations of a healthcare organization
8. The intern will be able to shadow and describe the roles and duties of health care managers and how they operate on a daily basis managing a complex health care department.
9. At the end of the internship experience the intern will submit a term paper outlining his/her internship experiences from in a reflective manner. (Internship Term Paper)
2. Internship Job Description: Some of the duties and tasks a Healthcare Administration intern is able to do: 
During the course of the HCA internship students can work in various health care setting such as health care management departments and units, health care strategic planning, health care marketing, human resources, and health care information systems units. In addition the intern can also venture in other aspects of health care management/administration as they relate to health care quality improvement initiatives, work with allied health professionals such as human resource management for health care, communication management for health care, and process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior in various settings. Some of the duties that I already performed in the facility are, I plan and initiate 12 patients to another area or room for renovation purposes. Identify compatibility acuity level and space needed for each patients. Also identify employees in need of competency and education needs and schedule based on their work and training schedule, post scheduled training at the time clock. Held annual in-service with all staff. Medical records filling of residents documents and charts/ removed older documentations and created new charts to file in the overflow chart room. Made copies and placed physicians orders and immunization cards in each chart. Verified all orders and immunizations are up to date and checked for required signatures. Labeling and organizing patients medical forms and nurses station. Conduct community health events coordination and assessments asses communities health needs assessment and marketing events. participate in community outreach activities such as informational sections, resource, resource identification, and communities assets. I am interning in a state hospital, dealing with mental and disability patients.