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To provide graduates of entry into respiratory care professional practice degree programs with additional knowledge, skills and attributes in leadership, management, education, research and/or advanced clinical practice that will enable them to meet their current professional goals and prepare them for practice as advanced respiratory therapists.

• Student Learning Outcome 1: Patient Data
  • 1a: evaluate, analyze and acquire data
  • 1b: evaluate procedure results and diagnostic tests
• Student Learning Outcome 2: Perform and Recommend Therapies
  • 2a: perform clinical/patient assessment
  • 2b: perform diagnostic procedures
  • 2c: recommend diagnostic procedures and therapies
• Student Learning Outcome 3: Troubleshooting Equipment
  • 3a: assemble/troubleshoot devices
• Student Learning Outcome 4: Infection Control
  • 4a: ensure infection prevention
  • 4b: perform QC procedures
• Student Learning Outcome 5: Initiation and modification of interventions
  • 5a: maintain a patent airway/care of artificial airways
  • 5b: perform airway clearance and lung expansion techniques
  • 5c: support oxygenation and ventilation
  • 5d: administer medications, specialty gases and mechanical ventilation
  • 5e: ensure modifications are made to the respiratory care plan
  • 5f: utilize evidence-based practice
  • 5g: providing respiratory care in high-risk situations
  • 5h: assist a physician/provider in performing procedures
  • 5i: implement critical thinking and decision making for problem solving
  • 5j: maintain ethical considerations
  • 5k: initiating and conducting prescribed pulmonary rehabilitation
  • 5l: establish therapeutic goals
• Student Learning Outcome 6: Communication
  • 6a: maintain effective interprofessional communication
  • 6b: provide patient/family/community education
  • 6c: implement culturally diverse communication styles
• Student Learning Outcome 7: Disease Management
  • 7a: identify cardiopulmonary diseases
  • 7b: perform disease prevention and management