A future in Health Care and Quality

Mike S.

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Re: Health Care and Quality

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.
Some of the things I have seen and experienced make me think that many healthcare facilities could use the fresh perspective of someone “in quality” but outside the healthcare industry per se. A fresh set of eyes may help them see things from a different perspective. But I think it would take a really progressive place or leader to open their mind to that idea. But if they did, I’ll bet they’d be surprised what the “non-medical” person would be able to help them with.

And, many problems and issues are not different from mfg to healthcare. I once saw settings for an x-ray machine on a large printed chart by the machine, but there were lots of scratched-out and penciled-in changes, none of which were signed, initialed, etc. It did not give me the warm-fuzzies. No obvious formal control existed. In another facility, the same kinda thing with regard to dosages of a certain type of dye or marker for injection into a patient!!! I wasn’t looking for this stuff, it just jumped out at me. I'll bet there was lots more...

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Randy

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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:

I'll answer you question directly without the hoopla.

1st...Start by getting some hands on experience in the health field. While you may have some basic quality knowledge unless you can talk the language of "health" forget it.

2nd...I know you worked hard for your degree, but for the most part it is honestly looked upon as just something you did for 2 years beyond high school. You're going to need a bit more to offer and not in manufacturing either. You'd be better served to advance your education in the field of health and business management. Forget the manufacturing or industrial stuff.

Be honest and ask yourself..."Why would they want me over someone else?" "What do I have to offer that someone else can't match or exceed?"

Give yourself some honest answers to those questions and then make your decision.

Now, from my perspective here's how I feel based on what you have already provided and without full knowledge of your background. You don't have much to offer at this time and may be severly lacking in the knowledge and skills necessary for the field you are looking at (coincides with the definition of "competence" in ISO 9000:2005)


Good luck
 
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Sandra Feliciano

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Re: Health Care and Quality

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.
100% AGREE, based on personal experience.

I started my career in quality management in 1996 in the IT industry. Nowadays, I work as an auditor and besides IT and other more typical activities, I audit business services like education and social services.

The transition was not easy, even if I was "chosen" to work with these new areas because my background education in social sciences/psychology was considered to be already "half way" there or at least, to be more close than most from my colleagues with a background in diverse engineering fields.

But in the past few years I felt the need to go back to school and since then I took some training courses in geriatric practices; I am finishing a BA in Social Service; and this semester I started an MA in Education (specialty of "Evaluation in Education"). And believe me: everything I have learned so far has been very useful when I am auditing. The ability to understand their activities from their point of view and to speak their language facilitates immensely the audit work. You know what to look for and how to ask them the right questions in a way they understand you. :cool:

/S.
 
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