A future in Health Care and Quality

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haueyman

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I foresee a future for myself in the health care field for quality iniciatives but currently I am in the automotive field. Does anyone have any advice on where to start?

I will have an assiociates degree in Quality manufacturing managment by the end of this year.

Any one have anything?:confused:
 
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ralphsulser

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Re: Health Care and Quality

I foresee a future for myself in the health care field for quality iniciatives but currently I am in the automotive field. Does anyone have any advice on where to start?

Any one have anything?:confused:
Good idea, I have been thinking the same thing lately. People don't need more cars and trucks, but they will need health care.
 
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haueyman

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Good idea, I have been thinking the same thing lately. People don't need more cars and trucks, but they will need health care.
Exactly, and I am getting sick of the BS the automotive industry is always pulling. But of course I bet the same thing happens is the health care field but at least there is satisfaction of helping someone. :biglaugh:
 

Mike S.

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About 1.5 years ago I had the same desire to be involved in healthcare Q as I saw many needs for it. However, all the places with openings always wanted someone with at least a nursing degree and I was unable to get any of them to change their mind. :bonk:
 
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andygr

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Be carfull of the grass is greener syndrome.
My wife is a nurse manager and the evening swaping of stories of things in heatlcare and me in aerospace has us firmly convinced that we are going to walk to the witch doctor!:cool:

You want to make money and help folks. Become a Nurse as they will be the last to be outsourced as some one has to actualy work with the patiants. Your xrays and other digonostic work could very well be currently performed in a differant country. Some of those Nurses that float and cover just the weekends and holidays make hourly rates that would astound you.

It is intresting to hear her tell me about the new things they are getting into as far as RCCA and process control and such. They are heading the way of automitive and aerospace for QA systems.:agree1:
 
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somerqc

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My MIL (mother-in-law) is currently involved in Healthcare quality. It is extremely difficult and highly regulated with things that just don't make sense (the usual government regulations that make you shake your head).

Take our current issues (regardless of industry) and add conflicting government regulations (what is ok in one country isn't in another or one country has a regulation that the other is getting rid of, etc.). Plus, more frequent auditing than the nuclear industry (another associate in that industry). The grass is definitely just as dead, just more likely to be around in 10 years compared to manufacturing.

I have had the same thoughts but after watching what my MIL goes through...I will be remolding myself from Quality Management consultant to Business Improvement consultant..easier sell and more likely to gain clients with the "older generation". Unfortunately, I have found that the older generation still has a certain stereotype about Quality and Quality Management (hopping off soapbox now.)
 

Jim Wynne

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Re: Health Care and Quality

I foresee a future for myself in the health care field for quality iniciatives but currently I am in the automotive field. Does anyone have any advice on where to start?

I will have an assiociates degree in Quality manufacturing managment by the end of this year.

Any one have anything?:confused:
I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems that skills and experience in quality don't transfer between manufacturing and healthcare very well, or very often. There's been some discussion here on the subject in the past, so you might want to do a search. From everything I've seen, QA jobs in healthcare almost always require healthcare education--a lot of clinical QA people are RNs with BS degrees.
 

Jen Kirley

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I have also found that, in almost all cases, a RN certificate was demanded. I have a split opinion of this.

One one hand, it seems like closed-mindedness. People who know how to do something one way keep teaching how to do it that same way. They say "Let us do it (this one way) better" but they seem in sore need of fresh thinking, techniques that have been developed over decades and objectivity. Look at how we grapple with the issue of accurately written prescriptions.

One the other hand, let us stop to consider how much of what we do that is centered around our specialty. Would we be able to transplant ourselves in an utterly different specialty and promote value? Would we be taken seriously?

I decided, painfully, perhaps not. Isn't this sort of problem one reason why highly paid executives, Black Belts or consultants sometimes get hired to do turnarounds, but fail?

So my suggestion is this: if you get a buyout package, consider getting an Associates in nursing. Your community college may offer one. Get that license so they'll give youi the time of day.

While in school you'd be able to take the technical peculiarities associated with medicine and apply your hard-won wisdom at analysis and managing defects. In my view, that's what a successful migration would require.
 

Le Chiffre

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How about a smaller step in that direction and look for a quality management position with a medical devices manufacturer, become fluent in ISO 13485 and then work in the medical device regulatory field before jumping into health care.
 
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ralphsulser

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How about a smaller step in that direction and look for a quality management position with a medical devices manufacturer, become fluent in ISO 13485 and then work in the medical device regulatory field before jumping into health care.
Yes, thank you for clarifying the subject. This is basically what I meant. I should have stated "health care related". I interviewed with a company that made adult type diapers and other medical filters. Everything was going good untill the salary expectations were discussed. They did not want to go to the range expected. So, maybe next time I'll look for hardware type devices.
 
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