Question

• The decision to develop your own medical bag touches on three spheres: identity, clinical settings, and other practical considerations. What are the pros and cons of purchasing your own equipment and developing your own medical bag?

• What are the priorities for your medical bag? For example, if you plan to take care of patients with diabetes, you will need a glucose monitor and test strips, or if you want to take care of children, you may want to have some brightly colored stickers to play with.

Answer 1

Answer: The advantage of the purchasing equipments and developing own medical bags are:

• The equipment purchased will be useful and can be kept forever.
• There will be option of selling the equipments.
• Buying own equipment is easy as it is a direct process.
• Owners will have control over the equipments.
• The use of medical bags can be performed efficiently.

Disadvantages:

• Buying own equipments is expensive as much equipments can not be purchased at the same time.
• Maintenance rate is high for long term use.
• It can easily become outdated.
• There could be errors in the medical bags or equipments.

The priorities for having own medical bag depends upon the population of the patients. Because all the medical bags will be use for patients. So, it should be adjusted according to the categories of the patients. For children it should be more attractive whereas adults doesn't require. Number of admissions of patients affects the medical bag options.