Interview with a hospital administrator
The interview started on a high note and with energy where the hospital administrator explained the responsibility of a hospital administrator and what it takes to be one. A hospital is an active treatment center for patients and it is a multipart and an interdisciplinary workplace for the healthcare personnel. Being a hospital administrator requires on to be in charge of maintaining the symbiotic operations of a hospital to run smoothly. They are faced with the task of managing the professionals, the finances and the practice of the facility in accordance with the set of policies and the procedures set by the trustees. Their responsibility is also wide as they are supposed to represent the hospital as an institution in the governing boards, investors meeting and within the community.
Hospital administrators are considered to be the leaders of the institutions they control. They are faced with the task of making decisions that ring throughout the entire institution and the community at large. The administrators ply in different environments such as in urban, community hospitals, group medical practices, rehabilitation institution and the outpatient care. Most of the administration workers work on a full-time basis but they all rise up to the emergency occasion.
For the administrators to be entrusted in such their academic qualifications plays an important role. One should hold a four-year bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration that includes specific curriculum courses such as hospital strategy, healthcare law, economics and finance and the healthcare technology that must be accredited by Healthcare Management Board. They are also subjected to training, licensing, and possession of the required skills as well as opportunity advancement.
There are ethical dilemmas of health care and life sciences regarding who chooses and who controls. Dax’s is at one point critically injured where he was left blind and without the use of his hands. He suffered extremely painful treatment leading to the famous plea of "let me die". The ethical dilemma rise when a physician job is to implement the job as the patient would want and in this case the physician did not act according to the patient wish which was to stop the treatment and just let him die. According to the patient, he did not want to live in disability as the members of the society have a certain attitude to individuals with a disability.
The issue of life also rises this is because ethically killing is wrong due to the moral values that individuals and the society hold. The physicians consider it to even be riskier when a patient refuses treatment as their main and sole purpose is to ensure that the individual’s life is continued through right treatment procedure and better medical care for the patient. The patient will is to die but the act of knowingly killing or letting some to take away their life is a medical dilemma that has to be dealt with to ensure that there is no violation of ethical standards.
