It's been a while since i last posted a thread on this website. So i'm sitting having my usual random thoughts and i will love to read your feedback on these 2 issues. I'm a nurse with 7+ years of work experience and in 3 months i'll be done with my MBA and Masters in Health Admin. dual degrees. I decided i wanted to take care of patients from an operational stand point. I want to make things more efficient from management side so that patients receive the best quality care. My goal is become a health care senior executive of a hospital or any other healthcare service organization. I also have an entrepreneurial spirit, so i may start my own business some day. Enough of about me. Granted not everyone is interested in business or health care administration/ management, but i always wonder why more nurses are not leveraging their nursing skills/knowledge and pursuing a business degree. The job opportunity is plenty, especially with the implementation of the healthcare reform act. We( nurses) understand the healthcare system better than any other healthcare provider. I've asked my coworkers, with way more experience than i have, and their response is, " i don't want to be a paper pusher" lol. Of course there's more to it than just shuffling papers. They are different career paths for a nurse with an MBA degree, you can become a consultant, healthcare entrepreneur or intra-prenuer, program director, executive administrator, design or develop community programs, work for a pharmaceutical, disease management, insurance, medical supply companies, manage a private practice or work in public health, the sky is the limit. Share your thoughts if you have ever thought about business administration/management and had a change of heart, or why it is not an option at all for you. Some of my classmates, most of them don't have healthcare background, envy us nurses in the class. We had a CEO of a hospital as a guest speaker for one of my classes who was a Physical Therapist. She said if she could change one thing in her past,on her career path to a CEO, it would've been to become a nurse. She pressed on how nurses have so much advantage in the healthcare management field.
Next issue! So my coworker, a Med. assistant is trying apply to a nursing program and one of the schools she considered has a 2 years waiting list. I remembered this was a problem, because of the low nursing professor salaries, way back when i graduated from my BSN program. I'm sitting here thinking, why have these schools not increased the nursing salaries to attract my nurses to teach. The law of supply and demand. If the demand is that high, you offer a competitive salary and more students apply to the nursing program and this generates more revenues and therefore more profits. So why is this concept not obvious to most of these nursing schools with long waiting lists, especially with community colleges?
It can't be that unsual for nurses to get their MBA- google MSN MBA and you will pull up a ton of dual degree masters programs formullated specifically for nurses.
I think the OP has a good idea. Have more Drs, nurses, PT, etc be in positions where they can make a difference. The higher ups have no idea of the challenges that staff face on the floor on a daily basis. It should be like in the old days where people worked themselves up to the position of a boss from the ground up.
It would definitely be an uphill battle to get things to change so that the patient is put first but haveing people with the hands on experience is a must. I have said this same thing over and over again where I work. The people who make the rules do not have a clue of how their decisions effect patient care.
AliF
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It can't be that unsual for nurses to get their MBA- google MSN MBA and you will pull up a ton of dual degree masters programs formullated specifically for nurses.