Healthcare Management: Career Benefits, Roles, and Leadership Styles

This essay provides an overview of the healthcare management field, highlighting the benefits of working in the healthcare sector, different types of healthcare professionals, and various leadership styles. It discusses the advantages of job satisfaction, job security, and flexibility within the healthcare industry. It also explores different healthcare professionals like doctors, medical specialists, oral health specialists, allied practitioners, and complementary medical practitioners. Furthermore, it examines leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, strategic, transformational, and team leadership, linking them to leadership theories like contingency theory and transformational leadership. The essay concludes with a personal reflection on specializing in medicine service and utilizing team leadership inspired by transformative theory to deliver optimal care, emphasizing the potential for learning effective teamwork, applying learned skills, and achieving healthcare facility goals.

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Introduction
The healthcare industry is one of the best sectors within a jurisdiction to work in as it has
so many benefits. Working in this sector enables an individual in having a better exposure to the
patients receiving the care services at a better rate as well as having their feedback on time.
Reasons for working in the sector
Naming all the benefits that come with working in the healthcare sector is just but
underrating them. However, there are a number of benefits that make me admire working in the
sector including the following. To start with, working in the healthcare facilities come with
greater levels of job satisfaction as a servant feels as a winner once his/her patient recovers fully
from the ailment they were suffering from. Secondly, working here does not raise the issues of
the time that a person may lose his/her contract as the job security is a firm based on the
legislation brought hand in hand by the Affordable Care Act here in America. Through such a
health plan, more affordable care was availed to the common citizen that resulted in diversifying
healthcare demands. As a result, it is so hard to be jobless in this sector. The third aspect is that
there are a lot of flexibility chances in the healthcare sector such as visiting any state for medical
purposes as long as the practitioner has a valid license and documents. In addition, some medical
missions may offer unique chances to the health professions to travel aboard while being
sponsored by either the government or their health facilities. Working in the healthcare industry
enables a profession to acquire better salaries for the services they are offering but it strictly
depends on the level of a profession that a particular caregiver is in. The pay is awesome and,
basically looking at this factor, raises my appetite for working in the sector. For instance here in
the United States, a medical surgeon may at least earn an annual average of $187,200.00.

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Types of healthcare professionals
As explained in the above section, the amount of pay that a caregiver in this sector
receives strictly depends on the rank that he/she is serving in the health facility. Therefore, there
exist a number of different professionals in this sector including the following.
The doctor
The doctor is the most common person that many people have ever dealt with and may
sometimes be referred to as the general practitioner. He/she is the person who is mostly
contacted by the care receivers in case their health standards destabilizes. They are the found in
different facilities in both the private and public centers (Francois, Boussat, Fourny, &
Seigneurin, 2014). They have the specialization of the in treating general types ailments
including pain and injuries that are complicated for over-the-counter treatment. Most of them
build their trust with their clients over time and may possess the full medical record of their
patients. In the United States, they earn an average of $189,000 per annum.
The medical specialists
In cases where the general practitioner cannot handle, he/she basically addresses his/her
patient to the medical doctor who has specialized on that particular ailment through a document
commonly called the referral that gives a summary of the patient health issues (Pas, Eisinga, &
Doorewaard, 2016). In this rank, there exist a large number of these medical specialists including
the likes of the pathologists, general practice, surgery, anesthetics, and dermatologists. Others in
the same rank include rehabilitation specialists, emergency responders, pediatrics, gynecologists,
pathologists, and radiologists among others.

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The oral health specialists
This category consists of the care givers who fundamentally focus on providing medical
care to the receivers on their oral system especially in um disease and tooth decay and cavities.
They can work in either private or public facilities and may contain the likes of the dentists
among others (Eliav, 2017).
The allied practitioners
These are the care givers that are not fully equipped with the care giving to the clients but
are on the process of being equipped. Most of them are the university-trained interns who work
on a part-time basis. Most of them come in to assist in the care giving and may fall in the
dietitians, psychologists, physiotherapists, the speech pathologists, and the podiatrists. Based on
their training, they may be based on either private or community-based health facilities
(O'connor, Kerr, Shields, & Imms, 2016).
The complementary medical practitioners
These are the health practitioners that are not based on the care facility and may
sometimes be referred to as the holistic or alternative therapy. They may offer different medicine
including vitamins, acupuncture, Chinese medicines, and homoeopathic and herbal products.
However, a patient must advise his/her medical practitioner of any herbal medicine intake before
his/her care plan is drafted (Verdonk, Rantzsch, de Vries, & Houkes, 2014).
The leadership styles
There are several types of leadership that I have come across including autocratic,
democratic, strategic, transformational, and team leaderships among others (Anderson & Sun,

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2017). The autocratic leadership mainly focuses on the boss being in charge of the whole actions
taking place while democratic gives the subordinates the chance to make decisions. In strategic
leadership, the person behind the driving wheel of a particular organization is the one at the top
or the head while transformational leadership keenly involves installing changes in the involved
firm. The team leadership has the issue of the future being brought to the table and a direction is
determined for the team as well as the purpose of its existence. A sample positive experience that
I have had is teamwork where a certain group is working collectively to attain a common goal
(Houseley, 2017). The behaviors of leadership style depend on the theory of leadership that a
person is exposed to such as the contingency theory, Great Man theory, behavioral theory, trait
theory, and situational leadership. Other leadership theories that affect a person’s behavior
include transactional leadership, participative and transformational leadership theories
(Northouse, 2018).
My healthcare sector specialization
I would best wish to fit in the provision of medicine service sector to the patients as it is
the most challenging of all. In such a place, the best leadership style that I would use would be
team leadership as inspired by the transformative theory where every medical practitioner is
actively involved. The practitioners that I will be leading will include the interns, general
practitioners, and the registered nurses in delivering the best care available.
What I might learn from this experience
Interacting with different healthcare professionals may give me a chance to practice how
best workers can interact in their work zones. First of all, I will be able to learn how to apply my
learned skills in class to the real work area and on real people. In addition, I will be able to lead

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the healthcare professionals towards achieving the set goals of the healthcare facility. This aspect
will be best attained through the leadership style. In addition, I will be able to multitask by
answering many calls and record keeping, making new friends, and most of all, learning to enjoy
the little things in life.

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