November Guru of the Month - Ebony Figures

Biomedical Equipment Technology wasn't her original career path. With only two months left to graduate with a Healthcare Management Associates Degree, Ebony Figures changed her major when the Program Lead of the Biomedical Equipment Technology program subbed for her instructor one day. The Lead spoke about the field and the day-to-day life of a Biomedical Equipment Technician and Ebony was hooked!

Today, Ebony works as a Biomedical Equipment Technician at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX. She works on a little bit of everything, but mostly patient monitoring, telemetry, and dialysis. Ebony stays up-to-date with the industry by reading TechNation Magazine, attending the MD Expo Conferences, and being a member of the WOW-HTM Facebook page.

"MedWrench is an amazing tool to help understand equipment parameters, abilities, uses, and functions. They have troubleshooting help, manuals, and videos. Plus they have a live feed."

Ebony has been a MedWrench member since 2014. Having a MedWrench Bench was a requirement for students in school! Ebony shares how MedWrench has helped her, "I was troubleshooting in the classroom on an ATS 1500 tourniquet. I had an issue with the manifold and went to Medwrench to review the service manual for the schematics to repair the device."

Ebony Figures is an empowered, confident, highly productive, and efficient female biomedical equipment technician, who also is an entrepreneur with a love for singing! Her hobbies are singing, doing hair, making hand-made jewelry, and spending time with her children and friends.

Ebony would encourage any student starting off in the HTM field to "Learn as much as you can from those qualified to teach you and have a thick skin. Follow up their teachings with research. Study the service manuals for yourself and try to troubleshoot equipment on your own, before reaching out to someone else. You have to build your confidence in what you can do, not what someone else told you to do. And finally, know your worth! Not everyone can do what you do. You are a problem solver, a tinkerer of sorts, and an educated professional."

Thank you, Ebony, for your dedication to the HTM field! We appreciate your input and wisdom in our community. 

Want to be our next MedWrench Guru or know someone that should? Send us an email at mandy@medwrench.com to nominate or be considered!