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O*NET detailed work activityManage healthcare operations
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Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 17 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Perform administrative tasks, such as managing office functions and finances.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Direct public health education programs dealing with topics such as preventable diseases, injuries, nutrition, food service sanitation, water supply safety, sewage and waste disposal, insect control, and immunizations.
- Manage pharmacy operations, hiring or supervising staff, performing administrative duties, or buying or selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise.
- Direct the overall operations of animal hospitals, clinics, or mobile services to farms.
- Manage medical laboratories.
- Lead nursing department implementation of, or compliance with, regulatory or accreditation processes.
- Chair nursing departments or committees.
- Perform supervisory duties, such as developing departmental operating budget, coordinating purchases of supplies or equipment, or preparing work schedules.
- Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
- Formulate plans and procedures for nuclear medicine departments.
- Manage quantity food service departments or clinical and community nutrition services.
- Prepare and administer budgets for food, equipment, and supplies.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Perform administrative duties, such as hiring employees, ordering supplies, or keeping records.
- Develop and supervise hearing screening programs.
- Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
- Manage surgery services, including planning, scheduling and coordination, determination of procedures, or procurement of supplies and equipment.
- Manage surgery services, including planning, scheduling and coordination, determination of procedures, or procurement of supplies and equipment.