The medical supply is industry is one of the broadest in the world. Throughout your career, you could find yourself working in a hospital, a clinic, a nursing home, an assisted living residence, a medical device manufacturer, and in biotech research to name a few.
One of the keys to a satisfying career is exposure to the different pathways ahead of you. Here are some insights into career tips when working with your colleagues, and introductions into each of the settings listed above. These resources are not meant to give you a comprehensive review of each job type or workplace setting, but rather a flavor of some of the issues you may find yourself wrestling with and thriving on in these different scenarios.
1. 12 Communication Tips for Medical Equipment Specifiers and Reps
Planning for job success means planning for careful communication. These 12 tips will take you through specific advice regarding how to communicate in writing, how to get everyone involved to understand the same message in the same way, and how to return your acknowledgement of messages back to others.
Inside you'll find practical advice, not theory.More »
2. Budgeting Tips for Specifiers
Medical supply specifiers play an important role in health care project management. Architects, designers, construction managers, and administrators all contribute to a successful renovation project to a clinic, but they need the expertise of a medical supply planner to finish the job.
Here's a look at how best to budget for this crucial aspect of health care facility planning. More »
3. How a Case Cart System Improves Efficiency, Cuts Costs, and Improves Care
For me, one of the more rewarding aspects of a career in the medical supply industry can be when you can make an impact on efficiency, lower operational costs, and/or help caregivers like doctors, nurses, and allied health specialists improve the quality of the medical care they provide.
Here's an example of how to do exactly that, using the implementation of a case cart system in a hospital. More »
4. A Tried and True Improvement Methodology for Healthcare Processes
Regardless of who your employer is, whether it be a hospital, clinic, senior care facility, or biotech corporation, they create whatever it is they do through processes. If you can help improve one of those processes, you can make an important contribution.
Luckily, there's a science to it. Inside, you'll learn about the process improvement methodology that was born in the manufacturing industry, and has since transferred successfully to health care.More »
5. Tips, Innovations, and Best Practices
This article is a comprehensive list of around 40 ideas to improve staff and patient satisfaction, lower healthcare acquired infection rates, and improve health outcomes.
Implement just a few of these ideas, even one at a time, and you'll earn your way to superstardom in your field. More »
6. How To Start a 5S Lean Program in Your Healthcare Organization
5S is another mindset for organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Start here to learn the basics. You'll see quickly how taking the lead in this knowledge base can propel your organization and propel your career. More »
7. Medical Supply Planning for the Senior Care Unit
Senior care units in hospitals are becoming more popular. There's a general growing understanding that seniors have specific needs for their age group. Some of this has been learned from the burgeoning assisted living industry and has positively influenced hospital design.
Learn more here, grow your expertise. You never know if this niche could appeal to you. More »
8. Find a Job in the Bio Med Industry in...Boston
Here's an initial look into one of the largest biomedical job hubs in the world, Boston, Massachusetts.
I've covered several others throughout this guide site, but start with Boston and see how a biomed hub is established, what draws manufacturers, researchers, hospitals, and universities to locate near each other, and what results they yield together, not only by way of the medicines and medical devices they create, but also the careers they build too. More »