In: Nursing
Capstone Course: Cases in Health Care Management
Career Navigation
Reflect on where you are in your career.
In a 2- to 3-page essay, answer the following questions:
What steps will you take to navigate and set goals for your future career? What is your time frame for these goals?
Who will you identify as a mentor or accountability partner, and how will you ensure that you are meeting your career goals?
What words of wisdom would you give someone who is newly entering the profession in a manager/leadership role?
Are you a member of any national professional associations? Which ones
Reference
Anthony R. K., Ann S. M., Duncan N. Health Services Management: Cases, Readings
and Commentary (10th ed.). Health Administration Press
Steps in capstone course;
Choose a topic;
The topic that focus on real life situation and one that involves the application of a specific principle that you learned during your course. Choose topics which involves the analysis of statistical data as well as of complex concepts and ideas that are too hard to fathom for the readers.
Submit your proposal;
Should be long and it should adequate introduces the topic you have chosen. The section of literature review and methodology will also be part of it.this decides about your proposal application is accepted or rejected.
Start working on the capstone project;
Your proposal gets accepted. You should start working immediately. Research your topics extensively and accumulates latest and as much information as you can so that you have enough information to start writing as finishing a capstone project will take very long time. This is due to the fact that these projects require you to devote a semester to it at least.
Goals for further career;
It is also senior seminars.
Promotion of the coherence and relevance of general education.
Promotion of integration and connections between general education and the academic major.
Fostering of integration and synthesiswith in the academic major .
Promotion of meaningful connection between the academic major and work and carrer experience.
Explicit and intentional development of important students skills, competencies and prospective that are tacitly or incidentally developed in the college curriculum.
Enhanced awareness of and support for the key personal adjustment encountered by senior during their transition from college to post college life.
Improvement of seniors carrer preparation and pre professional development that is facilitation of the transition from the academic to the professional world.
Enhancement of seniors preparation and prospects for postgraduate education.
Promotion of effective life planning and decisions making.
Time from of goals;
A professional association with in accounting has identified a core competency framework. This include closely linked to the research,problem solving, critical thinking, reflection, synthesis, teamwork, communication and professional orientation. Some course structure and learning activities are more successful at achieving the goals than others remains a question still to be explored in many discipline.
Accountability partner;
Person who coaches another person in terms of helping the other person keep a commitment.
Find someone you trust to be your accountability partner
Talk to them about your goals
Reward for talking
Set up regular check in times
Revisit goals and strategies every once in a while to make sure you are on track.
Words;
Take time to understand the business
Develop time management skills
Active listening skills
Know how to motivate and lead employees
Continue your own training
Learn to delegate effectively
Don't take all the credit
Don't expect employees to be perfect
Don't stay isolated in the office
National professional association;
American society of administrative professional
Association of executive and administrative professional
International association of administrative professional
Center for association leadership