I massively appreciate this as an RT. I get so many calls for stuff that a nurse could easily do. I wish all nurses had this mentality. Also… my name is NOT “Respiratory.”
Been an RT for over 10 years and a nurse that admits to not knowing something is waaay more respectable than a nurse that tries to appear to know something (that obviously doesn't).
You guys are absolute ANGELS! I'm an RT, and I absolutely love how some nurses (like you!) first troubleshoot anything respiratory before calling us, or call us to ask if they can do something on their own to save us a trip across the hospital. Such nurse team players like you make our job a breeze, and it's a true pleasure working with you. Thank you for sending this message to your fellow nurses. We appreciate you, and also remember that without YOU, we wouldn't be able to do our job, either. Thank you!
if they disrespect me, I then will PSN them. If they call me because the pt is desating and SOB, then i got to the room, the nurse is in the breakroom for any reason, doesnt matter if the patient is on O2 or not. i will not tolerate it. because RTs have more than 2 or 5 patients like nurses always do. when i was a new grad RRT, i was talking with the family and then the LVN nurse came in, then rudely talked to the fam that she was just the therapist.
Many RNs use their superior status, to demand service from RTs. I've come to see most as lazy and unprofessional, with about 30% truly intellectually able and emotionally mature enough to do the job with globally positive effects. The remainder are looking to foist as much upon RTs as HR will allow.
@@raquel2031 RRT pays about a buck or two more than CRTT. I've a friend who got a master's, just to continue to work. He'll be in debt for a long time, given the rock-bottom pay.
Thank you guys, that was so beautifully done. I have so many RN friends and am beyond happy to have run across this video. I have 2 semesters left of RT school and I have the so much respect for NURSES!!!
Just seeing this, as an RT and a baby one at that, y’all really make this a team effort. Some RNs and RTs can be so far up themselves that they forget about the patient. We BOTH need to be around to make this show run and ensure the highest quality of care.
As an RT, I want to thank you for this! Depending on the place, we don't feel a lot of respect or appreciation, so it's nice you guys are teaching this! I especially love the potluck part. It seems like such a little thing, but everyone likes to feel included and that's such an easy way to do it.
I want to add that there are a lot more than nebulizer treatments that are done. In certain states they intubate and are a part of ECMO teams. RTs are also assisting in tracheostomy surgeries, removing sutures, and trach care too. I just wanted to add that bit of info because it seems a lot of other healthcare professionals don't understand.
This vid makes me really happy. I'm currently in RT school, and I hope and pray that I work with such appreciative nurses. Thank you for your kind words.
Thanks Guys!! You are awesome to put this out. I'm sick of feeling like the Hospital's Beee-aawwch!!! My favorite RN's and LPN's are the ones that have the same attitude as you, and there are quite a few. But you know, a few bad apples spoil the soup. As for cool, calm, and collected ... that's on the outside ... on the inside I'm dumping in my boots !! But what a rush when you get a rhythm back !!!!
100% agree. Even as a tech that's currently in nursing school, I have found RT's to be such a great source of knowledge and they really do love to teach. Whenever I'm at work I have RT's pulling me into various rooms so I can listen to various adventitious lung sounds, explain why they're changing vent settings, why they're drawing an ABG and what the results mean, etc. I have to say that it has really given me a leg up on a lot of other students and seriously has expanded my knowledge r/t respiratory events.
jgfjgfify why don't you stop spreading negativity on the job of an RT and let everyone have their own opinion? It's not because you've had a bad experience that you have to put your crap comments on every RT video on UA-cam
Thank you! Love this! One thing though, we go to school for AT LEAST 2 years. More and more hospitals are preferring you have a bachelors in respiratory.
I have worked as an RT for 2 years now. Nothing I won't do for some of the nurses I work with in the trauma ER and in the ICUs I frequent. Y'all keep doing amazing things! There is always good and bad RTs, same goes for the nurses.
Thank you both RN and RT for all you do both are awesome. I am a veteran RT of 15 plus years, I teach my former clinical students to always use caution about bumping the oxygen up on a COPD patient . It's good to keep FIO2 around 28% or 2.0 liters to start out. You do sometimes have to readjust sometimes by using a Venti-mask around 30% ( high flow device) precise amount of Oxygen. I would get a ABG and do adjustments .
Great video! I just shared this with my fellow RRT. Majority of the time we definitely feel like the help🙄 But we are Proud professional that do an awesome job and the main goal is the patient well being! Respect to you Nurses💪💯
Oh my gosh!! My beloved RN’s! Please include us during events!! I feel like it would help build morale! I work for a major medical faculty with over 9 ICU’s, we are busy. Being included with RN events would be incredibly awesome!!
This is a great video. Too bad that the majority of nurses do not share this same sentiment. In my 8 years of experience, nurses will call for the simplest things. Or they will call if there is something they just don't want to do but want you to come and do. For example, suctioning which is a shared responsibility. Even though a nurse is standing at the bedside they will call the RT to come and suction even when the RT is on another floor. They teach us in RT school and in preparing for our boards that if there is anything that a patient needs and you are qualified/authorized to do it then you do it. You don't call someone else to come and do it.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you guys presented in the video is all true.....You guys are absolutely correct we are stretched out so thin. Some days we hit the breaking point and we don't even know what to do. Thank you for the support....
Good job guys on addressing this. It is obviously an issue that warranted a video. Maybe slight correction regarding our education. 2 year, 4 year is the standard and some masters programs. We do not spend the duration simply learning the respiratory system. Most people don't understand our knowledge base is standard krebs cycle, A&P, Bio etc. Weather you're a top surgeon or housekeeping respect and professional courtesy must always be an integral part of a health care system.
You hit it right on the nail. Too many nurses I encounter do not trouble shoot at all. They see a spo2 drop and dont bother to properly check spo2 placement, see if pt is positioned, look at your pt does he look comfortable, increase oxygen. I can go on and on. Its like they dont know to trouble shoot or they just call rt so they dont have to deal with it. I encointer to many nurses that are bitter and still dont understand what we do in the field. They think we are just there to suction and give nebs smh.
You guys are awesome !!!!! Thank you for making this wonderful video. I’m about to be in my second year in RT school and respect ✊ nurses and all medical field positions . God bless you guys
I feel much happier becoming a licensed respiratory care practitioner. 🤍😇🙏 Looking at the light, I bet the Lord will open the door for a good job someday.
Hi there. Does anyone have an opinion on the job market for RT nowadays?? I'm just trying to get some feedback. I know that nursing has always been in demand, plus I'm familiar with the field since a good number of my family members are nurses. Its a bit discouraging to read that jobs are scarce, especially for positions in healthcare. Any information on RT would be awesome. I'm interested.
I live in Canada, and jobs are really good. It may take you a couple years working casual to get a permanent line, but all our casuals get ton's of hours. Right now I'm at $45.95 Canadian, plus shift differential, and weekend bonus.
Nurses go to nursing school, RT's go to respiratory school.. Nurses read one chapter in a respiratory textbook and think they can tell us how to do our jobs not realizing we studied the entire book. And that was just one. I left the field after 26 years because I was tired of the lack of respect for our expertise. In my experience medical students will ask you to explain things. RN's rarely do. Potlucks, know our names? Are you kidding? If that's not happening, that's you. I'll bet combined you guys don't have 5 years at this' Let me give you a bit of advice. When a nurse calls you STAT. It's usually not STAT, more like ASAP. So if you're on the other end of a large hospital, or busy, and get a STAT call. Ask the nurse "is this truly stat or can it wait for a few minutes. Ask if the patient is in distress. Communicate with them. If you have to do q4 treatments on a kid, or whomever, and it's 3 AM.Tell the nurse you have a treatment scheduled and does she need to get vitals or have anything else that she or he have to wake the patient for. Lert's say the vitals or whatever are due in a hour. Wait if your patient can tolerate it. you will make the nurse happy and patient happy to only be awakened once. On the whole nurses are good people with a tough job to do.but sometimes you need to earn their respect not expect it, just like they have to with us. I hope this helps.
Lady, please. You did it for 26 years and now you complain 😂 just go ahead and retire so someone younger can work in your spot and stop discouraging. Because if it was that bad, you would’ve quit sooner
Unfortunately this will be ignored by the majority of nurses. Respiratory therapist are the hospital's bitch even though we play a crucial role in patient care.
We don't get alot of publicity like RNs BUT try asking a nurse for help when you can't breathe...good luck! When RNs and RTs that work as a team and neither working "for" the other, patient care quality sky rockets!
Stanzavik depending on the facility we're disrespected even more than them. I've been a RT for five years and the disrespect we encounter is amazing. It's a real morale killer.
pinkpunkrock well ... obviously. Not sure how this video implies not respecting others. The relationship between an RN and rt is important and many nurses look past it
This video is biased. It is not a one way street. It is a two way street. Nurse and RT has to work together and respect each other. It's not just the nurse who should promote airway and keep trach and ventilator intact and functioning. It's actually more of a RT job make sure they are working and each respiratory alarms high and low are also working. NURSES can observe and help with airway breathing treatment and suctioning or even cleaning tracks but most of the time it's the job of the RT that make sure vents tunes and alarms are intact updated and are functioning. Nurses can assist with RT in whatever is needed to promote airway to prevent resp distress. Airway is RT specialty and I am great full for that but i don't think it's right that nurse should emphasize or totally submit themselves to the RT superiority because they are specialized field in the healthcare system . I think they both have to respect each other because without a nurse there will be no RT. RT came from the nurses. It branched out of the nurses because of so much responsibility of the nurses work load. Nurses do everything from assisting MD in performing surgery tracheostomy surgery med administration bathing cleaning feeding and using mechanical ventilator pain management and infection control. I think RT owes it more to the nurses. Without Nursing there will be no RTs. So I think this video needs to promote respect for each other because a lot of what RTs can do can also be done by a nurse to some certain extent on the other hand RT's can not do the role of a nurse because it's not just respiratory but it's everything in a holistic way of caring and that is demanding. So please respect each other as a nurse I also need the respect that I need because I have a lot of responsibility just as an RT.
You are right on both RTs and Nurses on respecting each other. But you don't seem to understand the context of this video. Majority of the nurses devalue RTs and think that they are superior in some way. Truth is that both have equal education, but one is a specialty. None of the disciplinary is greater than the other.
I am so off.;-; I am a nurse assistant and I have volunteered in the hospital as well. I want to transfer to the university for health science but I was looking at respiratory therapist and thought to myself this is a specialty. I did a lot to be a registered nurse but I am getting interested in the specialty of respiratory therapy.
No we didnt come from nursing. We came from physicians wanting a specialist to be specific for breathing. Our studies modalities are different and our approach is different. Keep in mind that I am not saying one is better than the other. I just want to educate anyone who thinks we are from nursing. For more information refer to the aarc.
Choose R.N., NOT respiratory therapist. Physicians refer to respiratory as 'ancillary', lumped in with C.N.A.s. Despite taking the same general education, prerequisites and sciences respiratory earns about 20% to 30% LESS THAN R.N.s. R.N.s and M.D.s ate lunch, conversed idly, and even dated/married; yet, NEARLY never, can the same be said of the LOWLY respiratory therapist. My usual contribution to the 'team' was, " SaO2 is something %" followed by, "ok, ya sure", by the Pulmonologist. 37 years of such 'team work' was not pleasant, or worth it. Further, the nature of the discipline greatly diminishes the areas needed, thus opportunities are diminished. Choose R.N., NOT respiratory therapist.
@@JonBrown-po7he wherever I get my paycheck, at least I’m happy to do it 😉 instead of a cowardly insecure man that didn’t do anything to change it, like yourself. Blame yourself for not having personality. Crying like a little girl because people wouldn’t sit with you at lunch 😂 it’s definitely you.
@@tommydub7785 Ancephalic, sounds as though you ACTUALLY are a sleazy minion of a scummy school. Your hyper sensitive response sounds like I hit a 'proverbial' nerve. My social reality has never been at work, sounds like you're 'projecting'! I've no control over your limited concept of social interaction. Work provides, not all encompasses, for my 'personal' occupations. Unlike you, my focus, in life, is NOT work.
@@JonBrown-po7he but you made a reference to who hangs out with one another 🤔 so you’re a contradicting whiner, too? Damn. You just might need Dr. Phil. You’re what people mean when they say that some people are just miserable.
I massively appreciate this as an RT. I get so many calls for stuff that a nurse could easily do. I wish all nurses had this mentality.
Also… my name is NOT “Respiratory.”
Been an RT for over 10 years and a nurse that admits to not knowing something is waaay more respectable than a nurse that tries to appear to know something (that obviously doesn't).
You guys are absolute ANGELS! I'm an RT, and I absolutely love how some nurses (like you!) first troubleshoot anything respiratory before calling us, or call us to ask if they can do something on their own to save us a trip across the hospital. Such nurse team players like you make our job a breeze, and it's a true pleasure working with you. Thank you for sending this message to your fellow nurses. We appreciate you, and also remember that without YOU, we wouldn't be able to do our job, either. Thank you!
3 smart nurses right there. This is 100% on point. Only thing I would add is every profession should respect everyone else. Eveyones job is important.
When annual income is at parity, NOT before. I, RNs, and other RTs, deserve at least that.
As A RT who sometimes feel disrepected by nurses..Thank You so much for this. I wish you all the best of luck as well..
if they disrespect me, I then will PSN them. If they call me because the pt is desating and SOB, then i got to the room, the nurse is in the breakroom for any reason, doesnt matter if the patient is on O2 or not. i will not tolerate it. because RTs have more than 2 or 5 patients like nurses always do.
when i was a new grad RRT, i was talking with the family and then the LVN nurse came in, then rudely talked to the fam that she was just the therapist.
Thank you 😊 for this! RRT here
Many RNs use their superior status, to demand service from RTs. I've come to see most as lazy and unprofessional, with about 30% truly intellectually able and emotionally mature enough to do the job with globally positive effects. The remainder are looking to foist as much upon RTs as HR will allow.
@@raquel2031 RRT pays about a buck or two more than CRTT. I've a friend who got a master's, just to continue to work. He'll be in debt for a long time, given the rock-bottom pay.
@Brian Babin 👍 AGREED 👍 Lazy and immature!
Thanks for all the positivity! It is great to hear health care professionals supporting each other!
Thank you guys, that was so beautifully done. I have so many RN friends and am beyond happy to have run across this video. I have 2 semesters left of RT school and I have the so much respect for NURSES!!!
Just seeing this, as an RT and a baby one at that, y’all really make this a team effort. Some RNs and RTs can be so far up themselves that they forget about the patient. We BOTH need to be around to make this show run and ensure the highest quality of care.
As an RT, I want to thank you for this! Depending on the place, we don't feel a lot of respect or appreciation, so it's nice you guys are teaching this! I especially love the potluck part. It seems like such a little thing, but everyone likes to feel included and that's such an easy way to do it.
I want to add that there are a lot more than nebulizer treatments that are done. In certain states they intubate and are a part of ECMO teams. RTs are also assisting in tracheostomy surgeries, removing sutures, and trach care too. I just wanted to add that bit of info because it seems a lot of other healthcare professionals don't understand.
This vid makes me really happy. I'm currently in RT school, and I hope and pray that I work with such appreciative nurses. Thank you for your kind words.
Been and RRT-NPS for 10 yrs now . Thanks for the love . U guys are awesome .
RRT for 17 years. I would be honoured to work with a team such as yours! ❤️from🇨🇦
Thanks Guys!! You are awesome to put this out. I'm sick of feeling like the Hospital's Beee-aawwch!!! My favorite RN's and LPN's are the ones that have the same attitude as you, and there are quite a few. But you know, a few bad apples spoil the soup. As for cool, calm, and collected ... that's on the outside ... on the inside I'm dumping in my boots !! But what a rush when you get a rhythm back !!!!
100% agree. Even as a tech that's currently in nursing school, I have found RT's to be such a great source of knowledge and they really do love to teach. Whenever I'm at work I have RT's pulling me into various rooms so I can listen to various adventitious lung sounds, explain why they're changing vent settings, why they're drawing an ABG and what the results mean, etc. I have to say that it has really given me a leg up on a lot of other students and seriously has expanded my knowledge r/t respiratory events.
jgfjgfify why don't you stop spreading negativity on the job of an RT and let everyone have their own opinion? It's not because you've had a bad experience that you have to put your crap comments on every RT video on UA-cam
Loved this so much!!! Us RRT's know there is nothing better than a RN with a team mindset.
Thank you! Love this! One thing though, we go to school for AT LEAST 2 years. More and more hospitals are preferring you have a bachelors in respiratory.
I was in RT school for 2 years only because I went to school all year round 😩😩
I have worked as an RT for 2 years now. Nothing I won't do for some of the nurses I work with in the trauma ER and in the ICUs I frequent. Y'all keep doing amazing things! There is always good and bad RTs, same goes for the nurses.
Thank you!
As an RRT , thank you for your kind words. I wish all nurses and doctors felt the same way you do.
Retired RT. Saved many lives over the years.
Thank you both RN and RT for all you do both are awesome. I am a veteran RT of 15 plus years, I teach my former clinical students to always use caution about bumping the oxygen up on a COPD patient . It's good to keep FIO2 around 28% or 2.0 liters to start out. You do sometimes have to readjust sometimes by using a Venti-mask around 30% ( high flow device) precise amount of Oxygen. I would get a ABG and do adjustments .
This was definitely an uplifting video to hear as I'm on my way to work. We love our nurses!!!
Great video! I just shared this with my fellow RRT. Majority of the time we definitely feel like the help🙄 But we are Proud professional that do an awesome job and the main goal is the patient well being! Respect to you Nurses💪💯
Oh my gosh!! My beloved RN’s! Please include us during events!! I feel like it would help build morale! I work for a major medical faculty with over 9 ICU’s, we are busy. Being included with RN events would be incredibly awesome!!
You guys NEED to be the gold standard for patient assessment. RRT here for 2 years now.
Happy Tears❤️...post covid this was very enlightening to hear a group of nurses who appreciate us.
This is a great video. Too bad that the majority of nurses do not share this same sentiment. In my 8 years of experience, nurses will call for the simplest things. Or they will call if there is something they just don't want to do but want you to come and do. For example, suctioning which is a shared responsibility. Even though a nurse is standing at the bedside they will call the RT to come and suction even when the RT is on another floor. They teach us in RT school and in preparing for our boards that if there is anything that a patient needs and you are qualified/authorized to do it then you do it. You don't call someone else to come and do it.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you guys presented in the video is all true.....You guys are absolutely correct we are stretched out so thin. Some days we hit the breaking point and we don't even know what to do. Thank you for the support....
These people get it. We are all part of a team, we all do our best for the patient. Major thumbs up.
Thank you so much! As an RT, I really, really appreciate this video and its accuracy!
You're welcome!
Good job guys on addressing this. It is obviously an issue that warranted a video. Maybe slight correction regarding our education. 2 year, 4 year is the standard and some masters programs. We do not spend the duration simply learning the respiratory system. Most people don't understand our knowledge base is standard krebs cycle, A&P, Bio etc. Weather you're a top surgeon or housekeeping respect and professional courtesy must always be an integral part of a health care system.
You hit it right on the nail. Too many nurses I encounter do not trouble shoot at all. They see a spo2 drop and dont bother to properly check spo2 placement, see if pt is positioned, look at your pt does he look comfortable, increase oxygen. I can go on and on. Its like they dont know to trouble shoot or they just call rt so they dont have to deal with it. I encointer to many nurses that are bitter and still dont understand what we do in the field. They think we are just there to suction and give nebs smh.
I’m happy to listen because our value is finally recognized
This brought a tear to my eye
Thanks to all the RTs. You are true heros.
You guys are awesome !!!!! Thank you for making this wonderful video. I’m about to be in my second year in RT school and respect ✊ nurses and all medical field positions . God bless you guys
YAY!
Respiratory therapist here! Who are you awesome nurses, and where do I go to work with you all?!
Thank you! Just from this video I can tell that you 3 are awesome nurses! Keep up the strong work.
I feel much happier becoming a licensed respiratory care practitioner. 🤍😇🙏
Looking at the light, I bet the Lord will open the door for a good job someday.
Thank you for loving us .
TY! It is nice to here that we are appreciated.
🔨 on the nail!!! . . .to add. . . . Love my nurses who help us with the suctioning!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thank you! We love Nurses!
So sweet. Thank you. I love my nurses!💞
Wow! We need more nurses like this!
Thank you for the love ❤️ #RTLOVE
every nurse: I could have been a doctor if I wanted
Becoming a doctor isn't as hard as everyone thinks it is
Settle down, janitor
Only you say that.
RT here! Thanks so much for this!!!
This is a great video! Can hospitals add this to nursing orientation? Thanks!! haha
I had a nurse call me to put a nasal cannula on a patient.😂 She got written up 😂
Thanks so much for this guys really nice to hear this from Nurses
Nurses clearly often lack respect for RTs ... they for some reason under the impression that they supervise you.
Thank you! RT FOR 4 YEARS!
Welcome!
I’m going back to school in the fall to become an RRT!
Love this. Thanks guys for an awesome video
Hi there. Does anyone have an opinion on the job market for RT nowadays?? I'm just trying to get some feedback. I know that nursing has always been in demand, plus I'm familiar with the field since a good number of my family members are nurses. Its a bit discouraging to read that jobs are scarce, especially for positions in healthcare. Any information on RT would be awesome. I'm interested.
I live in Canada, and jobs are really good. It may take you a couple years working casual to get a permanent line, but all our casuals get ton's of hours. Right now I'm at $45.95 Canadian, plus shift differential, and weekend bonus.
Nurses go to nursing school, RT's go to respiratory school.. Nurses read one chapter in a respiratory textbook and think they can tell us how to do our jobs not realizing we studied the entire book. And that was just one. I left the field after 26 years because I was tired of the lack of respect for our expertise.
In my experience medical students will ask you to explain things. RN's rarely do. Potlucks, know our names? Are you kidding? If that's not happening, that's you.
I'll bet combined you guys don't have 5 years at this' Let me give you a bit of advice. When a nurse calls you STAT. It's usually not STAT, more like ASAP. So if you're on the other end of a large hospital, or busy, and get a STAT call. Ask the nurse "is this truly stat or can it wait for a few minutes. Ask if the patient is in distress. Communicate with them. If you have to do q4 treatments on a kid, or whomever, and it's 3 AM.Tell the nurse you have a treatment scheduled and does she need to get vitals or have anything else that she or he have to wake the patient for. Lert's say the vitals or whatever are due in a hour. Wait if your patient can tolerate it. you will make the nurse happy and patient happy to only be awakened once.
On the whole nurses are good people with a tough job to do.but sometimes you need to earn their respect not expect it, just like they have to with us.
I hope this helps.
Lady, please. You did it for 26 years and now you complain 😂 just go ahead and retire so someone younger can work in your spot and stop discouraging. Because if it was that bad, you would’ve quit sooner
@@tommydub7785 she said she already retired fool and was giving advice not discouraging
@@thinkingagain5966 why would she do it that long fool
Thanks for the RT love!!!
Unfortunately this will be ignored by the majority of nurses. Respiratory therapist are the hospital's bitch even though we play a crucial role in patient care.
Sad but true. It has to do with Management and what is allowed.
Not where I work, but I guess you worked everywhere 😂 just repeating what you see online. You’re not even in the field
We don't get alot of publicity like RNs BUT try asking a nurse for help when you can't breathe...good luck! When RNs and RTs that work as a team and neither working "for" the other, patient care quality sky rockets!
Thank you so much for this video.
Wow. Are you saying that RTs are generally disrespected as much as CNAs, techs, UAPs in general, etc?
Stanzavik depending on the facility we're disrespected even more than them. I've been a RT for five years and the disrespect we encounter is amazing. It's a real morale killer.
Here Here@@jenatrevino3878
Not at all
We love you guys too!
RT for 10 years. Great vid!
Thank you!
We love you too
Yess! Thank you for this! #RTlife
Thank you! Much love and respect from an RRT who's hospital's culture doesn't respect!
about respect all health care workers at the same level?
People don't respect them? I don't believe it :o
Ashley Manney RT for 3 years now, and yes, we tend to get treated as though our time is not very important and we are not valued.
Respect everyone maybe?
Thanks for the video. 😏
pinkpunkrock well ... obviously. Not sure how this video implies not respecting others. The relationship between an RN and rt is important and many nurses look past it
Hay quá
thank you guys!!!!
of course!
thank you
Thank you heheh
Great video
They aren’t “your” respiratory therapist dude. Lol
Wow ...😃 WoW they get it!!!
😊👍🏻❤️
Nurses have the worst attitude ever :/ not my cup of tea. It’s the I’m better then you type of people. Nasty
This video is biased. It is not a one way street. It is a two way street. Nurse and RT has to work together and respect each other. It's not just the nurse who should promote airway and keep trach and ventilator intact and functioning. It's actually more of a RT job make sure they are working and each respiratory alarms high and low are also working. NURSES can observe and help with airway breathing treatment and suctioning or even cleaning tracks but most of the time it's the job of the RT that make sure vents tunes and alarms are intact updated and are functioning. Nurses can assist with RT in whatever is needed to promote airway to prevent resp distress. Airway is RT specialty and I am great full for that but i don't think it's right that nurse should emphasize or totally submit themselves to the RT superiority because they are specialized field in the healthcare system . I think they both have to respect each other because without a nurse there will be no RT. RT came from the nurses. It branched out of the nurses because of so much responsibility of the nurses work load. Nurses do everything from assisting MD in performing surgery tracheostomy surgery med administration bathing cleaning feeding and using mechanical ventilator pain management and infection control. I think RT owes it more to the nurses. Without Nursing there will be no RTs. So I think this video needs to promote respect for each other because a lot of what RTs can do can also be done by a nurse to some certain extent on the other hand RT's can not do the role of a nurse because it's not just respiratory but it's everything in a holistic way of caring and that is demanding. So please respect each other as a nurse I also need the respect that I need because I have a lot of responsibility just as an RT.
You are right on both RTs and Nurses on respecting each other. But you don't seem to understand the context of this video. Majority of the nurses devalue RTs and think that they are superior in some way. Truth is that both have equal education, but one is a specialty. None of the disciplinary is greater than the other.
Neil Modino it’s obvious you’re one of the nurse they’re talking about in the video 😂 disrespectful and rude.
I am so off.;-;
I am a nurse assistant and I have volunteered in the hospital as well. I want to transfer to the university for health science but I was looking at respiratory therapist and thought to myself this is a specialty. I did a lot to be a registered nurse but I am getting interested in the specialty of respiratory therapy.
No we didnt come from nursing. We came from physicians wanting a specialist to be specific for breathing. Our studies modalities are different and our approach is different. Keep in mind that I am not saying one is better than the other. I just want to educate anyone who thinks we are from nursing. For more information refer to the aarc.
@@latoyah6634 excuse me may be you are the one that's rude.
Choose R.N., NOT respiratory therapist. Physicians refer to respiratory as 'ancillary', lumped in with C.N.A.s. Despite taking the same general education, prerequisites and sciences respiratory earns about 20% to 30% LESS THAN R.N.s.
R.N.s and M.D.s ate lunch, conversed idly, and even dated/married; yet, NEARLY never, can the same be said of the LOWLY respiratory therapist. My usual contribution to the 'team' was, " SaO2 is something %" followed by, "ok, ya sure", by the Pulmonologist. 37 years of such 'team work' was not pleasant, or worth it. Further, the nature of the discipline greatly diminishes the areas needed, thus opportunities are diminished. Choose R.N., NOT respiratory therapist.
Get a life and stop spamming! The problem is you, not the field
@@tommydub7785 Oh, thanks. From a person whose paycheck is, probably, signed by a disreputable school.
@@JonBrown-po7he wherever I get my paycheck, at least I’m happy to do it 😉 instead of a cowardly insecure man that didn’t do anything to change it, like yourself. Blame yourself for not having personality. Crying like a little girl because people wouldn’t sit with you at lunch 😂 it’s definitely you.
@@tommydub7785 Ancephalic, sounds as though you ACTUALLY are a sleazy minion of a scummy school. Your hyper sensitive response sounds like I hit a 'proverbial' nerve. My social reality has never been at work, sounds like you're 'projecting'! I've no control over your limited concept of social interaction. Work provides, not all encompasses, for my 'personal' occupations. Unlike you, my focus, in life, is NOT work.
@@JonBrown-po7he but you made a reference to who hangs out with one another 🤔 so you’re a contradicting whiner, too? Damn. You just might need Dr. Phil. You’re what people mean when they say that some people are just miserable.
Thank you