78th Healthcare Operations Squadron BMETs Keep Airmen Deployment-Ready
The biomedical equipment technicians maintain and repair essential medical devices to support both home-base care and deployed missions.
Category: Department Management
Department Management
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How to Improve a Biomed’s Quality of Life
With a growing shortage of BMETs, smart equipment management strategies are needed to improve the lives of technicians.
Department Management
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Healthcare Wage Growth Has Lagged Behind Other Industries, Despite Pandemic Burden
A new analysis highlights the changes in the U.S. healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that the average wages for U.S. healthcare workers rose less than wages in other industries during 2020 and the first six months of 2021.
Recruitment, Retention
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Train to Retain Service Staff
If your service team is working beyond capacity, there are steps you can take to enhance efficiency and decrease burnout. Here are four strategies to increase service staff satisfaction by increasing departmental efficiency.
Salaries
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Survey Says: What the Numbers Are Telling Us
In this Up Front column, 24x7 Magazine chief editor Keri Forsythe-Stephens discusses some of the statistics gleaned in 24x7’s 2020 compensation and job satisfaction survey and what they mean for HTM professionals.
Succession Planning
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Plan Now for the Next HTM Generation
With today’s graying biomed population retiring at a steady pace and fewer younger people entering the field, HTM managers need to heed this alarm and what it means for the future of the profession. Here’s how succession planning comes in.
Department Profiles
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A Day in the Life: Children’s Mercy
Here, Tri Q. Dang, BS, biomedical equipment tech III, team lead for Mo.-based Children’s Mercy Kansas City’s clinical engineering department, discusses what sets his team apart and how “teamwork” is more than just a department creed.