May 12, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

RTP 2400 Clinical Practice III


Lecture: 0 Lab: 0 Practica: 7 Total Credits: 7
This course is a continuation of RTP 1800 Clinical Practice II . Students continue to use knowledge and skills mastered in the classroom to provide supervised direct patient care at assigned clinical sites and facilities. Students will complete skills in critical care patient assessment, medication delivery, arterial blood gases, mechanical ventilation initiation, adjustments, and discontinuation, noninvasive ventilation initiation, adjustments, and discontinuation, assist with bronchoscopies, laboratory data and diagnostic testing interpretation, and delivery of specialty gases. Students will be required to complete respiratory therapy skills competencies, a patient case study, and a mid-term and final skills assessment evaluation.

Prerequisite(s): Successful Completion of Qtr 1 & 2 Major Courses