...Respiratory Therapy is a health profession that specializes in Cardio Pulmonary functions and health. Respiratory therapists help with prevention, assessing patients, treatment, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care. They treat patients from all ages, from babies to the elderly. The requirements in becoming a Respiratory Therapist are taking Human Anatomy, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Microbiology, and Mathematics at a high school or college level. To begin the Respiratory Therapy Program out of high school you have to have a C or better in Chemistry, Anatomy, Algebra 2 minimum, and English. If these courses were not taken in high school, they would need to be taken at the college level to complete the prerequisites to apply for the Respiratory Program. The Program Certification may be obtained with an Associate’s Degree. Having a Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Therapy show more knowledge about your profession and chances are better at achieving a job right out of college and working about anywhere. The reasons why someone would want to become a Respiratory Therapist is helping patients with Lung Disease, Heart Disease, and Neuromuscular Disorders to improve the patients quality of life. Respiratory Therapists are people-oriented, dependable, flexible, honest, compassionate, caring, and courteous. In addition, the successful Respiratory Therapist must be able to handle the physical and emotional outcomes of what can be a very stressful job. Last, the successful...
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...State College's Respiratory Therapy Program I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stark County native Ms. Ann Lennox. She has been attending Stark State College for quite some time. Her accomplishments include being state licensed in nursing assisting and paramedic/emergency medical technologies. Lennox's most recent endeavor is finishing the Respiratory Therapy Program at Stark State College. Performing at the top of her class will make her a fine asset for any hospital organization. Ms. Lennox is a thirty –one year old Caucasian female mother of one. She has been in healthcare for over ten years. That ten years has consisted of employment as a state tested nursing assistant, and as an emergency paramedic. Her hobbies consist of spending time with her family, taking naps, and listening to music. When asked why she chose the medical field to pursue a career Ms. Lennox told me she has always had a passion for life or death situations and gory traumas. It is definitely a comfortable environment for her. Once she completes her two year associate degree program she will be able to become a state licensed Respiratory Therapist and employable at any hospital in the state that issues her license. I asked Ms. Lennox to give me a rough draft of her five to ten year plan for her future. It was amazing to find out that even after finishing her current program there is still more education she plans to pursue. Her ultimate goal is to become a senior therapist and be able to...
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...WHY I WANT TO PURSUE A CARRER AS A NURSE. I want to become a nurse because I like being able to help those who are in need and try to improve what is probably been a bad day for them. I was born and raised in Cameroon, where poverty is very evident. Throughout my life, I have seen all different kings of people in poverty, may it be infants, children, elderly people and even disabled people. Everyday I would see people on the streets begging others for money just so they could treat their ailing relatives. Whenever I saw them, I felt so weak. I wanted to help them, yet I did not know how since I was just a child. It wasn’t until I moved here in the United States that I realized health care is truly the right path for me. Moving here made me realized how other countries like Cameroon are in great need of health services. It made me more aware of the situation and now that I am older, I know that I could do my part in those in needs in all over the world and Africa especially. Seeing the poverty and lack of good health care gave me more than the desire to become a nurse, it gave me the passion and determination to achieve that carreer. I believe that passion and determination are important elements in becoming a nurse which I posses all skills Once I stared researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses than I had originally thought. This confused me because there was a nurse for almost everything! Then I finally decided...
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...Satisfaction As healthcare becomes more competitive it is important for department heads to identify all their customers in order to effectively market the department’s services. Respiratory Care performs both inpatient and outpatient services which encompasses a variety of customers. Once these customers have been established it is important to have a successful plan in place to assess and mange the satisfaction of all the department customers to ensure continuing growth. Customer Customers can vary greatly depending on the service being provided. For inpatient procedures the customer can include the patient that is receiving a therapy, family members that are concerned or taking care of their loved one, physicians that are prescribing care or consulting on the patient, nurses, case workers, or any other ancillary service that assist in the patient’s care. The list is very similar for patients receiving outpatient services as well. Customers are truly anyone that we come in contact with and provide a service. There are times as a respiratory department we will also seek out our customers in the community, for example, asthma education in the public school system. Customer in this setting would be the student, parents, teachers, aides, and the school nurse. There is also the internal customers that the respiratory departments work with everyday to include other ancillary department and our own coworkers. There is a long list of customers that respiratory therapists attend to on a daily...
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...work in hospitals but other common places to work are clinics, nursing homes for the elderly, community centers, schools and even people’s homes. Reasons you want this career : Why I Want to Become an RN Nursing has always fit my personality, originally I wanted to be a psychologist but I then realized my real dream is to be a nurse. My family has always relied on me to take care of them, I have natural maternal instincts and helping people or making people feel better has always made me feel good. I think I would be a good nurse because I understand what it feels like to suffer because of a medical condition and I want to help others who have been through similar situations and I feel like I would be the right person to be there, to understand and to support them . I have always been interested in medicine and healthcare Training/education/qualification needed There are three major types of nursing degrees: Bachelor of Science(BSN), Associate Degree in Nursing(ADN), and Licensed Practical Nurse(LPN). A BSN usually takes four years at a university. AND is offered at community colleges and takes 2-3 years to complete. LPN is offered at community colleges and usually takes 1-2 years to complete. Once you complete the BSN program, you can continue with Master’s work to further your education to become clinical...
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...are often preventable. When such events transpire, it is necessary to fully assess the situation so that these errors can be prevented in the future. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a tool employed by healthcare facilities to analyze adverse events and the systems that lead to them. A. Root Cause Analysis “A central tenet of RCA is to identify underlying problems that increase the likelihood of errors while avoiding the trap of focusing on mistakes by individuals” (AHRQ, 2012). The emphasis of RCA is on error prevention. It is a structured process of gathering data regarding the event, analyzing the information, and finding solutions to the problems to prevent reoccurrences. A team consisting of the charge nurse, a physician, a respiratory therapist, a pharmacist, hospital administrators, and patients not involved in the case is assembled to work through the process. The team begins by interviewing patients and staff involved to gather as much vital information as possible. Once all necessary information is compiled, the team works together to get to the root(s) of the problem. In the case of Mr. B, there were multiple issues that led to the adverse event as opposed to one root problem. In the process of defining the problem, several causal factors were identified. The error was a result of both facility and human error. Mr. B, a 67-year-old patient, presented to the small, six-room, rural hospital ED due to severe pain in his left hip following a fall. In his quest for...
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...Case Study – Chronic Bronchitis Admitting History A 68 year old retired geologist arrived in the emergency room with his daughter. Well known to the respiratory care consult team, he has a 40 year history of smoking 1.5 packs of cigarettes a day, is widowed, lives alone, and has difficulty managing his daily activities. For the past week the man has experienced increased dyspnea and cough and has been unable to care for himself. On observation, his personal hygiene appeared to have deteriorated. The man stated that he has been unable to get his breath or inhale deep enough to cough up secretions. He complained of mild nausea without abdominal pain or vomiting. His physician had given him an unknown oral antibiotic 3 days before this admission. The man was diagnosed with severe chronic bronchitis approximately 6 years ago and had an acute myocardial infarction 2 years ago. His pulmonary function studies 1 year before this admission showed severe airway obstruction and air trapping. He has a history of high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, chronic dyspnea on exertion, and chronic cough and he experienced two episodes of pneumonia within the last year. In recent months, according to a neighbor, he has become increasingly depressed. According to his daughter, his physical activity is minimal. He generally spends most of his days watching television, smoking, and napping. All his children, none of whom live in the immediate area, have tried to coax...
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...GNT1: Task 1 The immediate key assessments made that would help assess Mrs. Baker’s homeostasis, oxygenation, and level of pain would first be an initial visual assessment. This assessment should take no more than a quick 10 second initial visual assessment upon seeing the patient when the patient first arrives into the ER. This is a quick head to toe visual assessment. Head: does the patient have any noticeable signs of trauma to it, what size and shape are the patient’s pupils, is her face symmetrical, is her tongue dry or moist, is she breathing normal through her nose and mouth? Chest: does the patient have any noticeable signs of trauma to the chest, are her shoulders symmetrical, is she breathing normal or rapidly, is she breathing with her chest or abdomen? Extremities: what is the color of her extremities, are they pink, pale, cyanotic, or blue; are there any noticeable signs of trauma to her extremities; is her skin moist or dry; what is the color of her nail beds? Abdomen: is there any noticeable sign of trauma to her abdomen, is she using her abdominal muscles to breathe, is her stomach flat or round? General: she is an elderly female, is she showing signs of pain or guarding any particular part of her body? The next part of the assessment parallels the Visual Assessment; this would be an assessment of what the RN hears from the patient from head to toe upon first initial arrival to the ER. Head: what does the patient’s breathing sound like, can the...
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...6 Product and/or Service Offering 9 Pricing strategy 10 Promotion Strategy and Budget 11 Distribution Plans 12 Cost/Profitability Analysis and Pro Forma Financial Statements 13 Future Plans 14 Appendix 15 Page |2 Executive summary My name is Jan Barbier, I have a degree in Kinesiology and certificate in personal training and I am currently a student in Respiratory Therapy and Exercise Physiology. TANE is a business concept that is targeted to both high-performance athletes and to those individuals that may suffer from more than one risk factor. My expected business outcome is to provide Yellowknife with my expertise in improving ones physical capabilities and to improve one’s quality of life by working to eliminating ones identified risk factor. I am hoping to open TANE in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories once I have graduated in this coming summer. I have been saving money for this very project, so I will not require any loans or financing from any third parties. I plan on working as a full-time respiratory therapist, while having TANE as an extra source of income. This will allow me to safely open TANE, without putting myself at financial risk. Once graduate, my parents will be passing our family home on to me as they are moving down to Alberta, when this occurs I will be redecorating the double garage in to a functional testing facility. The overall objective of TANE is to slowly get my name out there as I one...
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...Critical Thinking Paper Aubrey Lewis Grand Canyon University 11/11/11 SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT Biographical Data Patient, C.L, is a 52-year-old Caucasian female that was admitted to Banner Thunderbird on 09/29/11 for difficulty breathing and shortness of breath (SOB). The patient has no known drug or food allergies and is registered as a “do not resuscitate” and “do not intubate” (DNR/DNI). History of Present Illness Patient stated that she had woken up through out the night drenched in sweat and the inability to catch her breath. This is what brought her to the emergency department where she presented with difficulty breathing (dyspnea), and shortness of breath. Based upon how the patient presented and the results of the diagnostic tests that were conducted the patient was admitted to the progressive care unit of Banner Thunderbird. Diagnostic tests that were conducted was a chest X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultra sound to determine if there is a build up or either fluid and/or air in the pleural spaces of the lungs or a tumor that is causing the patient to have difficulty breathing. Non-imaging tests that are conducted would be a blood studies and arterial blood gas test. The blood studies would be able to dictate if the patient has a bacterial or viral infection, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, a pulmonary embolus, or lupus, and the arterial blood gas test will be able to show how well the lungs are taking in oxygen...
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... COPD damages airways in the lungs and causes them to narrow, which in turn makes it harder for air to enter and exit the lungs (British Lung Foundation, 2007). The narrowing and blockage of the airways are due to the increasing production of mucous and thickening of the airway walls. Over time, there is also damage to the air sacs where oxygen passes from air into the blood and the changes start with inflammation in the airways. This is the body’s way to responding to harmful substances, often due to cigarette smoking, over a length of time (NICE, 2008). There are over 900,000 patients diagnosed with COPD in the UK currently, and it is believed that as many are not diagnosed. COPD is a progressive disease, which often explains why those diagnosed with the disease are in their fifties (NICE, 2008). The progression and damage of COPD cannot be reversed or treated, but patients can be given treatments to relieve the symptoms and comfort them using oxygen therapy. COPD is distinguished from other similar chronic...
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...inhalation therapist at the hospital, I choose to present to you a case study that occurred with me in October 2013, and a debate that I had with the financial department manager due to a purchase of an equipment used to resuscitation and intubation for patients in need of cardiac and respiratory reanimation. Patient Case Study: Fluid & Electrolyte Imbalance INTRODUCTION• Patient.History: Mr. Khoury presented to accident and emergency on the 6th October 2013, primarily due to the progressive deterioration of end stage motor neuron disease that was diagnosed two years ago. Coupled with a medical history of Alzheimer's disease, renal stones, enlarged prostate, hypertension, and an esophageal rupture, Mr. Khoury's health has continued to deteriorate as evidenced by weight loss, lack of appetite, decreased mobility, muscle wasting, poor oral intake and dysphasia. Prior to his admission to hospital, Mr. Khoury was cared for at home by his wife, however due to severe cognitive disturbances together with motor neuron features, his wife can no longer take care of him at home as she cannot determine his needs or understand his complaints. Mr. Khoury and his wife have both accepted his poor prognosis and deterioration as reflected by orders not to resuscitate, intubate or ventilate. His reason for admission is not an acute illness but to determine which palliative measures can be taken to relieve discomfort whilst correcting his fluid imbalance. A combination of reasons exists as to why Mr. Khoury's...
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...Music therapy has been known to help change lives. Just listening to music and focusing on the beat, lyrics, or melody can help calm oneself or even help lift their spirit. Music therapy alleviates stress, anxiety, disorders, and illnesses because music is a core function of the brain. Music therapy alleviates stress and anxiety because it helps regulate people’s bodily systems. For example, a nonclinical trial was used that included 40 children from ages 7-12 years old with leukemia undergoing lumbar punctures. Anxiety scores were measured before and after the procedure. The results were successful showing lower pain scores and lower heart and respiratory rates in the music group. Also, anxiety scores were lower in the music group before and...
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...had difficulty. These parents often find themselves trying different methods and spending a great deal of their finances to increase their chances of conceiving. With that being the case, it is often devastating to finally conceive and find out that your child has a birth defect or a disease such as Tay Sachs. Tay Sachs is a genetic condition, usually found in Caucasians, and primarily those of Jewish descent, and develops in 25% of cases when both parents carry the recessive gene (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases [NTSAD], n.d.). It’s a neurological disorder that effects brain development. Development of infants afflicted with this disease appears normal at first but soon deterioration of the child’s mental and physical abilities becomes apparent. This deterioration continues until most children afflicted with Tay-Sachs lose their battle for life. The average lifespan of these children is 4 years (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NINDS], 2011). Interdisciplinary Team Unfortunately, Peter and Rita Trosack have been told that their unborn child has been diagnosed with this condition. In order to provide this couple with the appropriate care, resources, education and support that is needed, an interdisciplinary...
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...CrossFit was created and developed by Greg Glassman, a gymnast who wanted to improve his gymnastic skills and increase his strength more than just completing body weight workouts. He began incorporating weights in his workouts and noticed he began to surpass his competition. Using weights into his gymnastic workouts and integrating aerobic exercises like running and cycling Glassman developed the idea of a CrossFit training program. According to international athlete and Olympic coach Ross Edgley, “[CrossFit] was intended to improve 10 physical qualities… cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, coordination, balance, and accuracy” (Edgley, “CrossFit: Sports Science”). Essentially, CrossFit...
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