Signature Assignment: Health Care Manager Interview

In this assignment you’ll examine the role of a health care manager regarding ethical issues and decision-making. You’ll have the opportunity to practice your professional skills in conducting interviews and communication, in general. Being able to have professional conversations with all stakeholders in an organization, including managers at various levels, is an important skill to have as a health care manager.

Research a health care facility (pharmacy, medical office, nursing home, hospital). Become familiar with the company, including the mission, vision, and goals of the company.

Select a leadership position at the facility – for example, a supervisor, manager, director, vice president, compliance officer, or similar.

Use the Health Care Leadership Interview Questionnaire to conduct an interview with the person you selected.

Write a 700-word summary of your interview. Title your assignment “Health Care Manager Interview.” Note: Double-space the interview responses and use proper grammar and sentence structure.

Use this questionnaire for your health care leadership interview. Answer lengths will vary, but it is expected that you will provide at least 1 paragraph for each question (excluding question 2).

Note: Within the questions we use a generalized term of “person interviewed.” This term refers to the leadership position at a facility that you selected. Example leadership positions include a supervisor, manager, director, vice president, compliance officer, or similar.

1. Identify the organization the person works for and identify the mission, vision, and goals of the company.

2. Provide the name and title of the person interviewed.

3. Describe responsibilities the person you interviewed has.

4. Explain the role the person plays in ethical decision-making in their company.

5. Identify an example of an ethical issue the person faced and how they resolved it.

6. Describe what resources the person used to resolve ethical issues.

7. Explain how you would apply what you learned from the interview to be an ethical health care manager in the future.

Write a 700-word summary of your interview. Title your assignment “Health Care Manager Interview.”

Note: Double-space interview responses and use proper grammar and sentence structure.

Submit your assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes. Signature Assignment: Health Care Manager Interview

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.