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The Respiratory Care Program is offered by GateWay Community College.
The program curriculum prepares you to give professional respiratory
care in health-care settings ranging from the emergency room to
a patient's home. The program provides you with the necessary knowledge
and skills to begin clinical practice.
As part of your final year of study, you will participate in clinical
rotations at Mayo Clinic Hospital, part of Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
These rotations may include:
- General floor patient care
- Critical care
- Respiratory consult services
- Emergency care
- Advanced hemodynamic monitoring services
- Arterial blood analysis
- Advanced hemodynamic monitoring services
- Diagnostic bronchoscopy assisting
During the rotations, you will observe and assist with:
- Administering bronchodilator therapy for patients
with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and asthma.
- Performing percussive therapy and administering
positive experatory pressure (PEP) therapy to patients with pneumonia.
- Providing mechanical ventilation to postsurgical
patients (including those who have had coronary artery bypass
graft and liver transplants), patients resuscitated by emergency
medical staff and long- term ventilator patients.
- Providing supplemental oxygen to patients.
- Assisting physicians with diagnostic procedures,
such as bronchoscopy and metabolic stress testing.
- Providing advanced hemodynamic monitoring services,
including insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters.
- Performing EKGs on cardiac patients in both the
Emergency Department and other patient care areas.
- Harvesting and analyzing arterial blood to provide
laboratory feedback to physician.
- Participating on the resuscitation team and attending
patient emergencies.
- Providing respiratory care utilizing the respiratory
consult services.
As part of these procedures, respiratory therapists educate the
patient and their families regarding therapy.
Grading or Evaluation
As you move through the respiratory care rotations, you will be
evaluated in each clinical area by the supervising clinical educator
from Gateway, the respiratory education affiliation clinical support
liaison, the program director and the clinical supervisor. Clinical
performance is evaluated using a competency-based evaluation system
and performance appraisals.
Mayo School of Health Sciences uses evaluative tools that include:
- Demonstration of skills
- Self-assessment exercises
- Faculty reviews
Our system of evaluation provides students and faculty with a
comprehensive look at individual performance.
Curriculum Enhancements
Mayo School of Health Sciences is committed to developing and
maintaining the very best education programs. Changes may be made
to the curriculum and other aspects of this program as necessary
to assure the highest-quality training.
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