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Education and credentialing
Education and credentialing need further detail, and this article needs more information overall. Roquen.phd (talk) 01:07, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Discussion clean slate
The discussion page was being used as a discussion forum and not as it is intended, so clean slate. Roquen.phd (talk) 01:07, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Occupational Outlook
In the United States, Respiratory therapists held about 122,000 jobs in 2006. About 79 percent of jobs were in hospitals, mainly in departments of respiratory care, anesthesiology, or pulmonary medicine. Most of the remaining jobs were in offices of physicians or other health practitioners, consumer-goods rental firms that supply respiratory equipment for home use, nursing care facilities, and home health care services. Holding a second job is relatively common for respiratory therapists. About 12 percent held another job, compared with 5 percent of workers in all occupations.[1]
- Should this be included since it may be a variable figure that is out-dated rapidly?
history of respiratory therapy
the timeline has its own article now, which I feel makes it very clean but now we're left without a history section.Je.rrt (talk) 13:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
external links
the following are links I removed because I think they are probably unnecessary. Je.rrt (talk) 02:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Additional External links
- American Association for Repiratory Care (AARC)
- The Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario (RTSO)
- YouTube - Life and Breath, Respiratory Care Overview
- Respiratory Therapy - The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario
- MUCOPHILE - Home of the Rockstar RT (news, discussion forums, continuing education)
- ADVANCE for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine - monthly professional publication and website updated daily with clinical information, news, webinars, more
- RT Space, Global Community for Respiratory Therapist
- Respiratory Care & sleep disorder
- Canadian Respiratory Therapist Job Profile — analysis of job outlook and wage information for Canada.
- United States Occupational Outlook Handbook for Respiratory Therapists — Job outlook and wage information for The United States
- RT Magazine (bimonthly professional publication)
- RT Corner (Educational Site for RTs and Nurses)
- RESPIRATORY CARE: The Science Journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
- Respiratory Care Forum
- Who's Who in Respiratory Therapy (WWRT)
- FOCUS on Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine Conference
- FOCUS Journal for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine (Quarterly Professional Publication)
Symbol
The symbol currently posted is not one I have ever seen. Granted I have not been an RT very long, its also weird and choppy. Are there any other symbols that better represent Respiratory Care? Kastyn.rrt (talk) 12:41, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- ^ http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos321.htm Occupational Outlook Handbook, Respiratory Therapists