Top 10 Reasons to Study Health Management Degree

Anyone considering a degree in health care management should have second thoughts. This career choice absolutely sucks for people looking to go through life with their head in the sand. There are 10 specific reasons why you should not get a health management degree because you really don’t want to be in a career choice as horrible as this one.

Too many opportunities
Take your own little survey of online sources that will indicate there are far too many opportunities and potential future prospects for individuals earning a health management degree. With so many opportunities from which to choose, the amount of stress that will build upon you in order to make this choice might become overwhelming.

Salary is Above Average
Did you know that employers force trained and qualified professionals with health management degrees to make more money? This could present you with a great deal of hardship since your children will no longer have to wear hand-me-downs and your wife will no longer have to shop at thrift stores in order to clothe the family. Know it’s going to be tough making a better than average professional salary since you will have to, inevitably, acquire creature comfort commodities that will enhance your lifestyle instead of continuing the struggle you have before you obtain your degree.

Employment Variety
Unfortunately, there is way too much variety of choice when it comes to putting your health management degree to work. This is going to force you to possibly focus toward a specialized approach obtaining a health management degree which is going to produce a more exciting learning environment which is going to make planning your degree or comparable and convenient since you will have a great deal of empathy for the subject matter.

Check out Job Ahead of Employment
One of the most annoying features about obtaining a health management degree is students are granted the opportunity to participate in an internship. Instead of leaping into the world of employment with but theory at their sides, students gain a glimpse at how knowledge and skills acquired can be put to practical use in a real-world setting. Don’t you think this takes all the excitement away from meeting mysterious job duties and responsibilities when facing unknown career requirements?

Degree Reveals Professionalism
Individuals obtaining a degree in health management are immediately stigmatized as well-trained, serious professionals who instantly command a reputation for providing excellence. This is too bad. This is especially true if you will tire easily being in demand for your administration and operation skills. It will be hard to shy away from being known as go-getter and doer, since you will be forced to accept the privileges and amenities that accompany such a position. You won’t be capable running away from people pigeon-hole describing you as a flexible, creative, self-motivated, take charge individual.

Peers at the Beckoning
Most schools offering courses of study leading to obtaining a healthcare management degree have available to graduates an alumni organization that acts as a sounding board, reference library and networking source. You really do not want to continue a post-school relationship with other professionals like you with similar personal and professional interests, do you? How is it that a dedicated professional like yourself would either seek out, or offer, assistance to other healthcare management professionals that might lead to the discovery of more convenient methods and systems to conduct your duties or possibly help toward furthering your career?

Student Life is Way Too Enjoyable
Don’t overlook the fact that as a student in pursuit of a healthcare management degree you will be exposed to a number of professional and personally rewarding activities that will enhance your living while obtaining an education. You will have to suffer from many social interactions that could provide you with lifelong friendships as well as lay the foundation for professional networking. You’ll also suffer the exchange of ideas – both personal and professional – that will have great impact upon your life. Therefore, be aware that pursuit of an education is going to broaden your horizons opening up many new avenues of interest and contact.

Educations Skills Compliment Living
There is a side effect suffered by all students pursuing a degree in healthcare management. The knowledge and skills acquired are going to aid you well in many areas of life that have nothing to do with work. Skills developed such as organizational and time management are going to annoyingly creep into your personal daily routines creating in you a better-rounded individual. It will be tough to handle gaining business skills that also make your personal life rewarding. But, you have been warned!

An Itch to Learn More
One of the additional side effects derived from pursuing a course of study leading to a healthcare management degree is becoming infected with a disease known as an “itch to learn more.” Successfully completing a health management degree will infect professionals with the desire to know more. This becomes a lifelong affliction that compels successful healthcare managers to constantly seek to improve personal knowledge and skills. This can be an annoying affliction since it may propel your career to greater heights, thus producing such inanities as more money, prestige and honor. Unfortunately, for most graduates of a healthcare management program, this condition is unavoidable and without a cure.

Self-Satisfaction Afflicts Healthcare Managers
Finally, one of the most debilitating aspects about obtaining a healthcare management degrees is that inner and outward smile upon you face that manifests itself daily. Unfortunately, this daily smiling is the direct result obtained from realizing you are in an industry that has an incredible impact upon the well being of others. Knowledge that your efforts have a direct impact upon your fellow man can lead to this daily smiling affliction that actually imbues a great deal of joy in the lives of others as well as your own. It’s tough to handle but, after all, you are a trained professional.

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(12 COMMENTS)
  • Donald

    This is BS. Life in hospital management sucks and don’t be fooled by this condescending ad. It is EXTREMELY political and cut-throat. Not to mention they could care less about patients and their own employees. The real backbone of the hospital is the nurses and doctors. I have lost utter respect for people in administration. Paper pushin’ management sucks to the extreme.

  • Joy

    Sorry, but I’m a nurse and while I appreciate that people feel we are the backbones of the hospital, I would have given ANYTHING to go into administration. Nursing SUCKS..no way around it..and google ‘No nursing jobs’ and “No nursing shortage”. Nursing school was the biggest regret of a LIFETIME!

  • Jeremiah Lynn

    As a healthcare professional that is actually involved in the clinical workings of a radiation oncology department I can honestly say that I think administrators are typically the most unnecessary and harmful part of the medical totem pole.

    They don’t care about patients and they don’t care about employees. They care about money and ways to make more of it, whether that means short-staffing a department that is already working well beyond productivity goals or withholding funds for needed equipment or continuing education.

    In a time of economic hardship when clinical workers are not seeing their pay increase year over year who do you think is still seeing those raises? Administration…though they don’t call them raises, of course. They are “bonuses”. Not the kinds of bonuses that people lower on the totem pole get, mind you, but *real* bonuses.

    Administration is one of the reasons why healthcare costs as much as it does. They are nothing but middlemen/women and busy-bodies who suck funds away from places where it is really needed in medicine. A medical department does not need administration to run smoothly. The professionals actually doing the work understand the needs of the department and should be making the decisions. Administrators are leeches who have worked their way into a field where they aren’t welcome.

    If that is something that you want to be a part of then by all means pursue it. I am perfectly happy actually working on the clinical floor and doing great things for the patients seeking treatment…well, perfectly happy except when I have to deal with clueless administration.

  • Jane Doe

    I agree with the poster above me. I went to school for Administration and worked in it for several years until I realized that they are merely whistle-blowers and money grubbers. They have no idea what really goes on in clinical but will not hesitance to stick their stupid noses into it, even if they have no clue what they are talking about.

    And I hate to tell all you hopeful MHA graduates, but you won’t get paid JACK if you aren’t a director or in a chief position. And that takes 10 to 20 years! Save your money and soul and don’t waste your time in this field. It will only suck the life (and morals) right out of you.

  • Mandar Sane

    I am interested in the healthcare field and am considering pursuing a Healthcare MBA or MHA vs going back to become an MD/DO or a Physician Assistant. I’m 32 years old and part of me wants to just get the education out of the way. Is it better for me to go back to medical school (or PA) at this age? Or better to pursue an MHA/MBA in healthcare? Wat are your thoughts?

  • Jane Doe

    Honestly Mandar Sane I would not go into heath management. It is so political and cut-throat. Not worth being $60,000 in debt for I guarantee you. If you have a passion for medicine, I would do that (but be prepared to be in $200,00+ debt for that). But even being a PA would be a great choice because they only do 2 years of school plus great job stability. Honestly that is what I wished I would have pursued instead of the MHA. The politics in that profession are insane.

  • http://healthcareadministration Diane Benny

    most healthcare managers are useless ladder climbers that all other employees hate. they don’t care about people (including patients). They only care about making money for the establishment and are patted on their weak little spines for it. Let the experts in the clinical areas run the place and things will go smoother.

  • tabitha smith

    i really think health care administration is a good field. Im currently going to school. If you have a big heart and want to make a change then it would be a good idea to pursue this career.. I work at a nursing home right now and let me tell you nursing sucks they dont care about there patients. Health Care administration is your best bet.

  • Jane

    Sorry to break your bubble Tabitha, but you are going to be very disappointed when you realize that Administration doesn’t care about patients or their employees! They are nothing but a number to these guys. Having a “caring heart” is actually detrimental to your career in management. But you will find out the hard way, of course.

  • Stephen

    Actually I’m going to have to disagree. I’ve been doing an internship for a clinic and have shadowed the operations manager and executive director for 7 weeks straight. Healthcare is a business whether you like it or not. There has to be someone in the facility that draws the line on what and what not to do. And if there is something to do, someone needs to figure out how it will be done. Fortunately, that’s why there are board meetings and even staff meetings. While your criticism is very broad, you make a good point. However, not all administrators are the same, not all doctors are the same, and especially everyone around you is not the same. I wanted to do something related to healthcare as a career, but couldn’t take the blood and physical aspect of it. Choosing healthcare administration for me is beneficial because whether you agree or not, I’ll be helping a facility stay afloat, keeping doctors happy, and competing with others in delivering quality care at a good price. And to say that administrators are money grubbers is probably the most discrediting thing to hear from your comment. There are plenty of doctors who find any loophole they can when it comes to billing patients. Also, the administrator or administration reports to the governing board which consists mainly of providers. I think that’s important to remember and understand.
    When you mention that administrators don’t care about patients you have to take into account what kind of facility they’re working in. If you were staffing a 350 bed hospital I think it would be hard for you to cater to everyone’s needs. Since I’ve been at this facility, I’ve seen patients that have come in to see our operations manager, written letters of sincere appreciation or sorrow, and also those that say they appreciate our business and the way they were treated both physically and financially. I stand by in board and staff meetings and have noticed the relationship built with the providers. Unfortunately, it’s not like anything you’ve mentioned.

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  • Charles V.D.M.

    I have to agree with Jeremiah way down below. Our administration is so caught up in nonsense like weekly productivity reports…little else will even be considered in our meetings because of it. Administration’s stock response to everything has turned into “We’ll look into that once our productivity goals are met”.

    What about patient outcomes? What about patient safety? How are these things being affected by our endless pursuit of unachievable productivity goals? The goals that are causing reduced overall working hours but increased per-employee workload? Administration doesn’t care that we are spending less time with each patient because of their mandates, only that some meaningless number generated every week falls within a certain range.

    Us being a publicly funded medical organization, our administrative salaries are public record. Many of these people are bringing home hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary, not even counting their bonuses that are larger than most clinicians yearly pay. They are creating more and more administrative positions while cutting our numbers of physicians, therapists, nurses, assistants, and other clinical roles.

    Administration has lost sight of what is important in healthcare and they are suffocating the rest of us that actually do the work.