Healthcare Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Healthcare administrators, plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise the delivery of health care. These workers are either specialists in charge of a specific clinical department or generalists who manage an entire facility or system.

Salary: $37,109 - $105,270

Education: A bachelor’s degree (four years) is the typical entry-level preparation needed for health care administration jobs. Some employers, however, will promote from within or hire other professionals with related experience (such as nurses) who are ideal for an administrative role because of their direct health care knowledge. For high-level executive positions, a graduate education (two to three years) is usually the starting point.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would not like to be one because it seems like a career that wouldn’t be very interesting.  Also because I have another career in mind already.