690 likes | 903 Views
Dana Oakes, BA, RRT-NPS Best-Selling Author RespiratoryBooks.com President Health Educator Publications, Inc. V. P. RT PROFESSION. X. X. 2010. 1947. 1977. The Second Moral ?. RT STAT!. Point # 1 RT is the most critical. Someone who gives their life to help someone else live.
E N D
Dana Oakes, BA, RRT-NPS Best-Selling Author RespiratoryBooks.com President Health Educator Publications, Inc.
V P
RT PROFESSION X X 2010 1947 1977
Point # 1 RT is the most critical
Someone who gives their life to help someone else live. he-ro (heer-oh)
Point # 2 The Reason I’m here: YOU are the heroes of today
Faith Faith
Point # 3 Nobody is a nobodyEveryone is a someone
1stPrinciple of Success
Point # 4 Ordinary peoplemaking anExtra-Ordinarydifference
RT PROFESSION X Roles & Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
CVT ACLS ECMO AE-C ECG CCM CPHQ EEG C-CPT CHE EMT CHMS CPFT EABP CRT IBCLC NPS CRTT MJ RCP RPSGT TTS PALS RRT
Talent Knowledge SweetSpot Passion
RT PROFESSION X Knowledge Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
RT PROFESSION X Professionalism Knowledge Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
Emergency Transport ABG’s CPR Asthma Management Geriatrics Sleep Airway Management PulmonaryRehab PFT’s Vent Management
Biocontainment Team Consultant Disaster Preparedness Team Discharge Planning Writers Inventors RR Team Case Managers Hazmat Team VAP Team Educator Smoking Cessation Clinical Specialist Hyperbaric Therapy Home Care Transport/Emergency Sleep Researchers Entrepreneurs
Clincial Consultant RT Consult X Professionalism Knowledge Knob Turner Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
RT PROFESSION RT Consult X Professionalism Knowledge Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
We are: Primary Care Clinicians Clinical Decision Makers Critical Care Team Members Disease Management Specialists Physician Extenders
Point # 5 • Determine Care Plans • Manage therapy
White Collar RT Consult X Professionalism Knowledge Blue Collar Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
S.W.A.T. Self Image RT Consult X Professionalism Knowledge Still, small voice Roles/Responsibilities 1947 1977 2010
RT SWAT RT: • A highly complex, technically specialized, licensed occupation requiring advanced levels of assessment, critical thinking/problem solving, and unique patient management skills. • Member of professional interdisciplinary teams providing patient assessment, diagnostic, and therapeutic critical care medicine to adult, pediatric and newborn patients with complex cardiopulmonary disorders, illness, and trauma. • Make daily life-saving decisions and perform critical care procedures in disease management requiring deductive reasoning, interpretation, and highly complex technical skills. SWAT: • Employing Specialized Weapons And Tactics to rescue and set free those being held captive by pulmonary disease.
KNOWLEDGE 10 Years CLINICALPRACTICE TIME
Airway graphic analysis Evidence based weaning Heliox therapy Nitric oxide therapy HFV Modes (APRV, APV, ASV, PAV, PRVC, VAPS, VPC, VPS, VS) Lung protective strategies Lung recruitment maneuvers NPPV Open-lung technique Permissive hypercapnia Permissive hypoxemia Patient / vent synchrony VAP MV TODAY
There is no option. EXCELLENCE is a requirement.
Point # 6 Our New Job: Raising the standard to EXCELLENCE
Acoustic reflectometry Argon plasma coagulation Bioacoustic sensors Bronchial thermoplasty Cerebral oximetry Early volume expansion Electrical impedance tomography Endobronchial valves Esophageal manometry HFVP Inhaled insulin Pleth variability index Rapid response teams Procedural sedation Volumetric capnography Experts needed !!