As I travel the country I find that most technicians and most departments do not regularly fail inspections. A technician will often say, "I fixed it, it did not fail."
Recording failure is how we record the value of our scheduled work. If we perform 5000 work orders, and nothing is ever wrong, maybe we do not need any inspection other than those that fit legal requirements, compliance requirements or pressure from our own risk or safety committees. We might find we are inspecting only what everyone else inspects.
Recording failure and getting an idea if that failure is significant, is a good way to check progress in our program. We can determine the significance of failure by determining if it could have had a detrimental effect on the patient. We might also want to consider the financial risk of the failure. What would have happened next if we had not located a problem and fixed it.
Once we record failure, we can make a plan to reduce failure. If the failure is related to use error, we can implement training, signage, rewards or change the environment. If the failure is due to manufacturing problems, we can turn to the manufacturer for a remedy, making it clear their response will affect our decision in future purchases. If the failure relates to the environment, we can control temperatures, humidity or improve the quality of electrical supply. If the failure could have be prevented by more regular testing or maintenance, we might find the appropriate party to perform a daily check or routine process, such as cleaning.
If we do not record failure, it is left up to the general memory of events to determine our future plans. The importance we place on our actions may reflect factors other than science, such as our feeling about a staff member or the outcome of one specific event we experienced or heard about. We might not have a system in place for measuring the result of any changes we make. In the worst case, we may find out after a major incident we had been seeing a problem over and over, but never recording it. This is the type of information that often come out after a major problem has occurred.
Nowadays, taking care of one’s health has never been the same. In fact, more technologies are introduced now and then to empower everybody to look after one’s well being. Among the interesting gadgets that may play a big role in the future’s cardiovascular medicine are the wireless sensors. They can be employed using simple “smart band aids” monitored by Blackberry and iPhone devices. They can check a person’s vital signs and that includes respiratory rate, heart rate and pulse rate. It is interesting to note that you can now have mobile electrocardiogram using these simple sensor devices. It can also update you with your present temperature and extra cellular fluid volume. This means, you can have all the essential data that you need without necessarily going to a clinic or hospital. All you have to do is to apply the “Smart Bandage’ on your chest which will serve as the sensor to get all the data for you. All information will be sent to your iPhone making it very convenient to get all the physiologic readings that you need.
In the United States alone, hospital borne illnesses reach to more than 1.7 million and 99,000 of them die every year. In Europe, nosocomial infections result to 2/3 of their 25,000 annual deaths. Severe nosocomial illnesses vary from bloodstream infections, UTI and pneumonia. And since many of their causative bacteria are antibiotic resistant like the gram-negative types, they can be hard to manage. However, it is interesting to note that 1/3 of hospital borne diseases can be prevented.
When applying for college in pursuit of an electrical engineering major, the risk of being rejected is also higher, especially since biomedical engineering is still a relatively new major, which has just recently begun to become more popular.
Even if a student succeeds in being accepted into a college for EE, he will then find himself plagued with a multitude of other students aspiring to achieve a degree in EE. This just continues into the job application stage, where the thousands of hardworking EE degree holding bachelors will be narrowed down until only a portion are accepted into actually high paying jobs, since the supply of EE majors is much greater than the demand. The same applies for many other popular majors.
Biomedical engineering overcomes any of these challenges, ensuring the degree-receiver a well paying job/
Another measure of success is by the amount of enjoyment or excitement one receives from their job. Biomedical engineering combines the skills and techniques used in chemical, electrical, mechanical, and optical engineering. Knowledge of all these different subjects is necessary in order to be a proper biomedical engineer. For those many students, who know they wish to pursue a scientific career, but are not sure which one is the perfect assortment of all scientific subjects into one major.
A student taking this major will take a variety of classes, and not be anchored down to a specific , detailed analysis of one particular branch of science. Biomedical engineering combines all of science into career.
