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If you are a school nurse, a mom, or someone who works around children or the elderly, it can be a great idea to have a good stock of medical supplies on hand. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have an entire closet of everything but the kitchen sink, but it does mean that you should be prepared for just about any event and that you should be especially prepared for those events that happen often.

A great place to begin stocking up your supplies is with wound care. No matter who you’re working with, you’re likely to need supplies to deal with bleeding wounds, cuts, and scrapes on a fairly regular basis. Start by picking up some bandages, but don’t forget to get medical tape and gauze pads for larger wounds, too. In this area, it’s definitely safe to buy in bulk; none of the wound care supplies will go bad over time, so you don’t have to worry about using them up before an expiration date.

Along with this, though, you’ll want to have some basic medications on hand. When it comes to things like antiseptic, antibiotic cream, pain killer, and other basic medications and creams, you will be dealing with an expiration date. Buy enough that you won’t run out unexpectedly, but don’t buy so much that you’re always throwing out expired tubes, bottles, and spray cans, since this is just a waste of money.

One other area you may want to look into is braces and things for minor sprains and injuries. While these things may be more difficult to diagnose, you can at least help keep swelling down in a sprained ankle, for instance, by having ice packs on hand – which are more convenient and less messy than regular bags of ice – and by using bandages to put extra pressure on the area.

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