Importance Of A Career In Healthcare Management

I graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado in 1997 with a degree in Business Administration. After college I moved to Denver and started working as a Property Claims Adjustor for Farmers Insurance. After a few years of working I realized I wasn’t fulfilled with my career path and decided to move into healthcare. I started school again and received an Associate’s Degree in Respiratory Therapy (RT) in 2004. In 2004, I started working for Banner Health at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley Colorado. It is a 250 bed acute care hospital in Northern Colorado. In 2009, I decided I needed a little adventure in my life and took a job as an RT in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. I worked and lived there for two and a half years. After my Middle Eastern extravaganza I moved back to Northern Colorado and began working for Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver. In January 2015 I got an amazing opportunity to come back to Banner Health and start my career in healthcare management. Since that …show more content…
Being a new manager in a growing hospital and department is challenging. I am balancing being responsible for running the non-invasive cardio lab, the pulmonary function lab, inpatient respiratory services and leading a group of six. Not to mention being connected to 2 other hospitals in the area, with the goal of regionalizing practices and creating an environment where facilities share resources. Each of these duties is demanding, but exciting at the same time. Finding enough time to complete my duties at work and my obligations with school has been difficult. But don’t they say “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”? I am learning to prioritize my time and get things done. I am not going to put pressure on myself for completing my degree in a certain amount of time. If I need to take a session off I will, with the understanding that I will finish what I