First Post!

First off, welcome to my new HMP blog! I am excited to get this going and really get involved in writing for this class this semester. This feels a bit awkward but here goes nothing...

My name is Grace Callahan and I am junior in the Health Management & Policy program here at UNH. I am from Charlestown, MA a small neighborhood of Boston. Growing up, I was always around the health care world and have know since I was applying to school that I would like to find a profession somewhere in the health field. I feel really passionate about helping people advocate for their rights and the health care that they need. To me, I feel like everyone should have access to resources to live a healthy life. I also really enjoy working with kids so I am hoping I can incorporate pediatrics somewhere. I am still figuring out exactly what I want my end goal to be but as I begin my more health care intensive classes I feel happy that this is the major I chose! 

For my first post I thought it would be kind of cool to talk about my generation, millennials, and sort of their effect on the future health care world. I found an interesting article on how the characteristics that millennial have will help improve the the health care field. How Will Millennials Change the Healthcare Workforce, of course, talks about how tech savvy our generation is. How we will be able to use our nature of social media and screens to amp the technology in the work force but there was one quality that really resonated with me. The article talks about how millennials in a healthcare management position would be more perceptive to fairness in the work place. Both on the HR end but also in the payroll end. They proposed the idea of "... implement pay-for-performance programs that demonstrate fairness." For me when choosing a place of employment I think that fairness, especially between genders, is something that will be important to me. As someone who maybe one day aspires to be in a management position, being fair and creating an open platform for people to want to be able to work at their best ability, this was something that made me hopeful in the AMN article I read. 

https://www.amnhealthcare.com/latest-healthcare-news/healthcare-workforce-millennials/

Hope you enjoyed my first post, I am excited to hear feed back! 

-Grace