Respiratory Therapist--Ritesh Chand
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2011
- A video crew followed Ritesh Chand through a shift as a Respiratory Therapist at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center (at the time of recording, it was the Southwest Washington Medical Center). The resulting video gives those who might be interested a better idea of what it's like to work in the Respiratory Care and Respiratory Therapy professions.
Link to the Respiratory Care web page at Mount Hood Community College:
www.mhcc.edu/RespiratoryCare.a...
Link to the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) website:
www.healthpronet.org/ahp_month...
Video crew:
Executive Producer: John Sneed
Producer: Claudia Michel
Producer: Michael Annus
Director/Camera: Sara Robbin
Production Assistant/Color: Supada Amornchat
Editor: Lucia DeLisa
This video was produced by Portland Community College in collaboration with Mount Hood Community College and was funded by a grant from the
State of Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development. PCC © 2009
www.pcc.edu/resources/video-pr...
Good video Retish. Going out on my second clinical "critical care" for the next 10 weeks. Really stoked!
Excellent video and very accurate. Thanks, Ritesh. I will be showing this to my students.
this is the best rt video i have found thanks!
Nice, I'm in respiratory program at Erie Community College in Buffalo Ny. They just got grants for two state of the art sim-labs and I can't wait to learn from the long time teachers there and at all my clinical's!
Thank you! I’m a Respiratory Therapy student and I had just finished my ICU rotations. It was a tough one and at times felt like I have no idea what I’m doing. Hopefully I’ll get better at it.
How’s it going now? I’m currently finishing my prerequisites to get into the progra
This helps so much as I am considering this program
Thank you for confirming my decision to go to MHCC! I just signed up for my first class...chem103 starting this fall! Then I plan on doing the full 200 level series in A&P before applying to the program. Thank you for the insight Ritesh. I appreciate your time in responding to my questions.
Thank you!
Wow Ritesh that is a very great offer! I will look into that thank you so much for your help.
I am inspired time and time again watching this video. I will be starting my associates degree next week 8/25/15 (Tuesday) in Respiratory Therapy to become a (RRT) registered respiratory therapist. I can not wait to learn all there is to learn in this profession, and help the people in need of the services i will know how to access. Thank you Mr. Chand for this video :)
Did you ever finish RRT school? how do you like it?
Hey man did you end up finishing school? If so, how do you like the career so far?
Thanks!
Awesome!!!! you will just do fine.
From one RRT to another U were Great! Good stuff! Now were are the intubations ;)
I attended Mount Hood Community College. The RT program over there is outstanding. I really liked the instructors over there too.
I guess there is another school in Portland that started RT program too, I think its called Concorde Career Institute. I heard its a shorter program over at Concorde but it costs three times more then MHCC.
Where did you go to school for your RT training? I'm looking at options but Mt. Hood CC looks like the best fit for me right now.
great.
It depends on how quick you want to join the work force. I have some co-workers that swear by Concorde which has a streamlined program where you spend most of the time learning practical skills.
Mean while in a community college, your first year will be spent on prerequisite courses like Math, English, Sociology, Pyschology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy and physiology etc.
I highly recommend that you finish your prerequisites before you entire the Respiratory Program at a CC.
I'm in my first semester in the respiratory therapy program. We do clinicals in the 2nd semester. I heard you see some gross stuff ,but like you said it's just a matter of getting used too.
Sorry, I did not know they posted this video on UA-cam. Anyways if this is your first dive in medical field, I would say try job shadowing at a hospital which has a busy ER, Trauma Center, or any intensive care unit.
Really speaking from experience, just follow the RT around and see if you can manage multiple cases at once. Frankly speaking the job is not hard, its just sometimes you have to really triage.
Really informative - thanks!
no problem bro.
Hi Ritesh. I live in Portland Oregon and would like to shadow an RT do you have any advice?
I'm currently looking into various healthcare careers and this is something that I think I may like. I'm thinking about doing "job shadowing" at a local hospital that will take me.
What questions would be great to ask?
What things to not ask?
Why did you pick this career? Was this your first? If you want to go into great detail, by all means send me a private message.
No matter what I choose, I will want to work in critical care. I want to have ICU knowledge.
Hi sir
I m with this course respiratory therapy, which institutes is in India running bsc respiratory therapy plz guide me
Md arzad Ali aap kause college se karre bsc respiratory therapy aur ye college aap ka kahan pe hai India mai .mai diploma respiratory therapy student hoon please reply karo
Sir do you know anyone from Kerala . who studies for Respiratory therapy . If you know can you give his details please
jolly babu are u from kerala
hmmm radiology technologist or this.....? Hmmmm
RT is more photographic but RCP is more critical and patient care.
Respiratory Therapy as of right now is not a good field to enter. The job market right now is over saturated with Respiratory Therapists. At least here in Pacific Northwest. Schools are churning out new RTs every year and there is only limited slots to fill at every hospital, unlike nursing where they have no problem finding work after graduation.
But if u want to relocate, there is opportunities throughout United States.
Soul Reaper What about for Radiologic Technology?
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.