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Careers / Respiratory Therapists |
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| There are 1370 users in this career group. They represent 9 different countries. You can see the list of users in this career group by clicking on one of the links below. You can also join this career group simply by selecting your current status and clicking "Add Me." |
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132 users are currently in this career. |
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36 users are considering this career. |
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22 users left or retired from this career. |
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1180 users have hidden memberships. |
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Anonymous |
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January 07, 2007 |
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The career of Respiratory Therapy is most fascinating, lucrative, and rewarding in many ways. A career in service to others in an allied health profession is one of the most satifying I know of, as I spent years in the cafeteria, listening and joking with my co-workers about job satisfaction, future hopes, and the thrill of bringing a patient back to 'life' during a Code 9, or Code Blue, as most hopitals call it when a patient stops breathing and their heart stops beating. The respiratory therapist is at the head of the team, performing a number of life saving functions. There is the ventilator to operate. This consists of daily changing a complex system of tubing geared to meet each patients' needs. Then there is monitoring the patients' own ability to breath; you must know the exact time to begin trying to wean the patient off the ventilator. Meanwhile the rest of the hospital awaits. You are assigned a lot of work these days, wearing many 'hats' throughout the days, thus your work is never boring. You might spend Mondays doing Pulmonary Function Studies for the state, determining disability determinations. These tests are about measuring lung capacities as well as functions, and sometimes one sounds just ridiculous, urging your patient on, to do their very best. You yell: Push push push push, blow blow blow blow, and you turn just as red as your patient does. There are patients who come in for aresol treatments for asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, and more illnesses. We perform Chest Physiotherapy as well as drawing blood to test for Arterial Blood Gases. This career is in big demand, pays well, and deserves a solid 8 rating. Not more for one special reason. In the hospital, where almost all respiratory therapists work, the hours are terrible. Either you work every other weekend, or 3 12 hour days one week and 4 12 hour nights the next, causing, often, one to become ill. It leads to family disharmony, illness, and often divorce. So the schedule is the one thing that takes off points - 2 points, and it would be more, if every allied health profession didn't have the same problem. |
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