UNIT 8 ACTIVITY

A Plan to Practice
By Mariam Salhien
UNIT 8 Activity
UNIT 8
Activity
Complete all components in the activity below according to the given instructions. Refer to the provided rubric for
information on how you will be graded. Submit your work as a file attachment using the dropbox.
The activity is worth 15 points.
UNIT 8 ACTIVITY
A Plan to Practice
In this unit you’ve learned about many of the different types of healthcare careers that you have to choose from as
you further your education.
Using this new information, and with independent research, you are now asked to gather data about a career that
you are interested in. You are going to develop a hypothesis: a prediction about what you think is required of
people who work in this field in terms of education, qualities, the scope of practice and duties of the profession,
and what salary they may earn. Then with the information you collect about the career you’ve chosen, you are
going to present a report on the similarities between your findings and your hypothesis.
You will identify the most appropriate method of data collection for your project. You will use observation, review of
print information, a focus group, interviews, or questionnaires. You can present your findings in a slideshow
presentation online using programs like PowerPoint, in a verbal presentation that you videotape, or even a
podcast. You will also submit a written summary of your findings. The written file will be submitted through the
assignment Dropbox.
Healthcare career: Respiratory Therapists

The healthcare career that I have chosen

from and interested in is Respiratory
Therapists. Respiratory Therapists (RTs)
care for patients that have breathing
difficulties.
Hypothesis:
If you want to become a Respiratory Therapist, than the
requirements in this field in terms of education is an
associate degree and a Bachelor’s degree.
Qualities of Respiratory Therapist
The qualities of Respiratory Therapist is that they care for patients that have
breathing difficulties. As well as, they provide immediate interventions and care for
patients who are acutely ill and can have the management of care for patients with
chronic illness as well. RTs interview and examine patients, and they work
collaboratively with all other members of the healthcare team. They perform
diagnostic tests, monitor patient’s progress, and teach patients how to take
medications and use various types of equipment.
The qualities of Respiratory Therapist is:
● Compassion
● Detail-Oriented
● Interpersonal skills
● Patience
● Problem-Solving Skills
● Science and Math Skills
The Practice of the Respiratory Therapist

The practice of the Respiratory Therapist is that they are a healthcare

professionals whose responsibilities include the diagnostic evaluation, control
education, rehabilitation, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities
of the cardiopulmonary system.
In which they provide immediate intervention and care for patients who are
actually ill and management of care for patients with chronic illness as well. RTs
interview and examine patients, and they work collaboratively with all other
member of the healthcare team. They perform diagnostic tests, monitor patient’s
progress, and teach patients how to take medication and use various types of
equipments.
And that all RTs work in hospitals, home care, nursing care homes, and offices.
The minimal education for an RT is an associate degree, but many employees
expect the RTs to have a bachelor’s degree. In which RTs are expected to be
licensed by the National Board of Respiratory Care.
The Duties of the Respiratory Therapist
A Respiratory Therapist have a range of duties throughout their days. In which on a
typical day or shift, such as, the duties of the Respiratory Therapist are:
● Meeting with and inspecting patients who've pulmonary diseases, disorders, or
complications.
● Conducting, performing, and reading diagnostic and characteristic tests to
evaluate lung capability and capability.
● Working with physicians and nurses to create remedy plan.
● Treating patients with aerosol medicinal drugs and chest physiotherapy.
● Evaluating development of treatment.
● Administering inhalants.
● Documenting care through updating charts and records.
● Operating mechanical ventilators and different machines.
● Completing discharge making plans through working with different contributors of
the medical team.
● Training sufferers the way to administer remedies and use gadget on their own.
● Recommending gadget and remedy for outpatient or domestic health.
● Protecting patients (and different healthcare employees) via stringent protocol.
Salary of Respiratory Therapist
The salary they earn in Respiratory Therapist is $58-81,000. And that it can increase if they get promoted.
However, the national average annual wage of a respiratory therapist is $62,500, according to BLS, a bit greater
than $10,000 better than the common annual salary for all occupations withinside the U.S., $51,960. The common
breathing therapist profits can range considerably relying at the country you work in. For example, the best-paying
country for respiratory therapists has a median profits that is $17,000 greater than the country wide common.
Below is a listing of the top-10 highest-paying states for breathing therapists.

1. California common respiratory therapist salary: $79,640

2. Alaska common respiratory therapist salary: $76,610
3. New York common respiratory therapist salary: $74,890
4. Massachusetts common respiratory therapist salary: $73,660
5. Nevada common respiratory therapist salary: $73,530
6. New Jersey common respiratory therapist salary: $73,390
7. Hawaii common respiratory therapist salary: $71,460
8. Connecticut common respiratory therapist salary: $70,410
9. Washington common respiratory therapist salary: $69,540
10. Oregon common respiratory therapist salary: $69,000
Observation of Respiratory Therapists

The observations of respiratory therapists is that RTs care for

patients that have breathing difficulties. And that they provide
immediate intervention and care for patients who are acutely ill
and management of care for patients with chronic illness as well.
And that the RTs interview and examine patients, and that they
work collaboratively with all other members of the healthcare
team. In which they perform diagnostic tests, monitor patients’
progress, and teach patients how to take medication and use
various types of equipment.
Review of print information for Respiratory Therapists
The review of print information for respiratory therapists is that RT is a
profession with a long history of clinical applications of advanced and
emerging technologies. A cursory overview of the preceding iterations of
the countrywide competency profile For Canadian respiratory therapists
presents perception into the fast evolution of our expert practice.
In which in early literature, the organization change observed that
variability in hospital adoption of innovation could be accounted for, at the
least in part, via way of means of a variability withinside the improvement
of structural mechanisms that offer get right of entry to to know-how
approximately change.
A focus group for Respiratory Therapists
The American Association for Respiratory Care or AARC Digital
Focus groups seek to conduct voice of the consumer
possibilities with informed respiration therapists on a whole lot of
difficulty matters. Participation in every recognition organization
is normally restrained someplace among 20-a hundred
respiration therapists. We take delivery of eligible contributors
on a first-come, first serve foundation till the cut-off date is met
or player recruitment is filled. Participants may also acquire an
honorarium for his or her time and complete finishing touch of
the focus group materials.
Interviews for Respiratory Therapists
Interviews for respiratory therapists are an interview applying for a
respiratory therapists job. And the interview questions for respiratory
therapists are:
● How do you determine a patient’s situation and increase
individualized remedies? Use examples to support.
● Describe your maximum hard revel in with a patient. What did you
learn? What could you do differently?
● How do you encourage discouraged or uncooperative sufferers?
● What are a number of the maximum beneficial remedies for
sufferers with emphysema? Why do they work?
● Have you ever had to provide emergency assistance to a patients
in a critical conditions? How would you handle it?
Questionnaires for Respiratory Therapists
Questionnaires for respiratory therapists are:
● How do you determine a patient’s situation and increase
individualized remedies? Use examples to support.
● Describe your maximum hard revel in with a patient. What
did you learn? What could you do differently?
● How do you encourage discouraged or uncooperative
sufferers?
● What are a number of the maximum beneficial remedies
for sufferers with emphysema? Why do they work?
● Have you ever had to provide emergency assistance to a
patients in a critical conditions? How would you handle it?
Written Summary Between My Findings And My
Hypothesis
The summary between my findings and my hypothesis is that
in order to become a respiratory therapist, then the
requirements in this field in terms of education is an
associate degree and a bachelor degree. And that the RTs
are known to care for patients with breathing difficulties. It
can be helpful, since it can save the patients’ lives during
breathing difficulties. Which is the there is a similarities
between my findings and my hypothesis.
In which my findings and my Hypothesis similarities. And that
my hypothesis is:
“If you want to become a Respiratory Therapist, than the requirements in this
field in terms of education is an associate degree and a Bachelor’s degree.”
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