Journey to Excellence
The clinical engineering team at Parkland continues the renowned institution’s innovative approach within its own department
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Personnel Management/Supervision
This is a continuation of the previous article on “Personnel Management/Supervision III” that appeared in the July 2011 issue, which discussed compensation, benefits, and incentives. In this article, we will discuss “appraising performance” and
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Combating Alarm Fatigue
If your cell phone had the same ring tone as everyone else’s, would you always answer your phone? In a crowd of people with many phones going off at the same time, you would probably become conditioned to the sound and possibly ignore it. If technology had not leaped forward to allow people to personalize […]
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Are You Managing Risk or Severity?
Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE Brian Poplin, DHA, FACHE, CBET The Joint Commission has officially confirmed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has agreed to accept alternatives to manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations. So clinical engineering (CE) professionals are now reassured that they can continue to use the “risk-based criteria” for maintenance planning. However, […]
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The 2011 BMET of the Year
When choosing a career path, a person takes numerous factors into account: personal interests, salary, daily and weekly hours, and upward mobility, among others. If any one of those core features clashes with your personal beliefs or desires, it can change your whole perspective on the industry and make you go in a different direction. […]
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