How do you write Therapist Driven Protocols for Respiratory Care?
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There are already alot of protocols written for RT's that are used in hospitals throughout the country. If you are trying to implement one in your facility, you can use an existing one, or change it to fit your needs. Much easier than starting from scratch. If you are a student working on an assignment, I'd suggest the same thing. Find an existing protocol & adapt it so you don't get in trouble for plagerism.
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I DONT KNWO WHY U R U ASKING DIS QUESTION HERE...ITS AS EASY AS CALLLING THE CLINICAL GOVERNANCE DEPARTMENT OR HUMAN RESOURCE.. THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER U... CHEERS
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here's a good format\nname, \nadress, phone number(s), fax\nSIN\nobjective/goals\nQualification summaries\nWork experience\nActivites\nReferences
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Try here and see what they have.  Should be some examples or links to some procedural stuff.\n\nhttp://www.cpaclass.com/
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http://www.medlawplus.com/legalforms/instruct/sample-ltintent.pdf\n\nLook at the form on the above site and see if that may be what you need.  Good luck.
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I'm in a course now, and I can a couple of things to the list...\n\n1) lift 125 pounds  (patients on cots)\n2) ride along on an ambulance (or the ER) and observe (you don't touch anything or help, just observe)\n3) pass skill stations where they simulate medical and trauma calls (such as heart attacks, car accidents and child birth), and you take control and verbalize how you would assess the patient and intervene to help them.\n4) the written test might be computerized, and they'll ask harder questions if you find the first questions easy.  (i.e. if you know respiratory well and child birth not-so-well, the computer refocuses the questions on child birth)\n\nThis is for Connecticut, so check your state to see what the standards are..
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Some books have goals listed with care plans, but right off the top of my head, I can't recall the name of one.  Sometimes you have to create your own goal. For example, if you have a patient with a nursing diagnosis of impaired gas exchange, then the goal would naturally be adequate gas exchange, or if you have a patient with the nursing diagnosis of impaired mobility, then the goal for this person would be to have improved mobility.  You always want the patient to return to the optimal state.  Once you've figured out the goal, it's easy to establish interventions.  I hope this helps.
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You might be interested in joining th National Registry for CPR.  www.nrcpr.org  This is an organization affiliated with the American Heart Assoc.\n\nThere is a link that prints out various forms for....whatever.  Try the link and scroll down to Code Blue critique form.\n\nwww.state.sc.us/dmh/dmhforms.\n\nIf this link doesn't work, put this title in a search engine  SCDMH Enterprise forms.
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Begin with one of your examples, use visual aids if you can.  Introduce your audience to the subject and then explain the cause and the effects.  Provide details of what to look for, what the symptoms are.  Cite legal disputes and medical findings.\nYou can bring in the statistics as a detail, that in "state" alone there have been "X" number of cases. \nShow the next example and end with safety and prevention information and contact options.
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Just write a summary of all your activities including but not limited to the ICU unit or ER and that should do it, good luck..☺
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While my response is "Microsoft-centric", the MSDN Web site does have a decent section on "Patterns & Practices" which may be useful to you.  I've supplied the link to the site below.
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http://www.chemocare.com/WHATIS/chemotherapy_protocols.asp
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Meshu\nI can  provide you with ideas of medical transciption. NHS is a large body in UK and they provide lot of transcription work in India. You can google for NHS Trust (about 800 of them) and they go to each site and send a feeler email and see if anyone is interested.\nCheers\nAndy
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i am a respiratory therapist, and a very large number of patients placed on a ventilator recover just fine, i know it looks horrible to see your family member at the other end of that tube/ventilator, but once you get over the shock of seeing them and it is explained to you what is going on(educating the family members will relieve alot of the stress)it gets alittle easier to handle each day, still stressful, but not as bad as when the family didn't have a clue about the whole process, and alot of patients are so medicated, they don't remember the experience, all they know is that their throat hurts when it is all said and done
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Adress the demands by priority. State that is how you will be handling their issues in order to "serve them best".\n\nI suggest writing down the demands and speak with them about each until the order in which they will be handled is agreed upon. This lets them know you are focusing on their issues and not leaving anything out which in turn will make them calmer clients.
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You will probably need to search through advanced science \nsearch engines and the protocol will probably be in a journal \nthat is not online.
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I am a Respiratory Therapist student and i too was seeking advice.  A woman named Lee1946 helped me out tremedously.  I hope she wont mind but this is what she said to me.  She sounds incredibly wise and i would hate for you not to hear from her too. :)\n\nLee1946- Much of what is really good about being an RT can also be a negative. I wrote to another RT student and said that everyday as an RT you will be challenged physically, emotionally and intellectually....and this is true and it is wonderful. The down side? Often you go home exhausted....physically, emotionally and intellectually. I led a fairly sheltered life before I became an RT more than 35 years ago. Since then I have had to work under extraordinary circumstances that never had been a part of in my life. Code Calls....abused babies and children, suicide attemps....(some who made it, others who didn't), car accidents, drug over doses, debilitating illness, extraordinary burns. No matter how rich or how poor...or what life style a person lives, you need to care for them and care about them. You also need to care for the people who love them. One of the worse times was when a nurse I worked with came into our ER in full cardio-pulmonary arrest and another was when the grandbaby of a friend came into the ER in full CP arrest. You may feel your heart is being ripped out....but you keep doing what you need to do for as long as you need to do it...the real tears come later, at home...and/or the next day when all who participated in such a Code gather together and hang onto each other. \n\nYou learn to keep an open mind about people and let go of first judgements based on race, culture, religion, politics and financial status. Hospitals are great equalizers and you will be needed as much by one person as another. You will become a better person and richer emotionally if you allow them all to be a part of your life as you have become part of their life....even if its only for a few minutes in a life time of minutes.\n\nI have used RT to travel to many areas of the USA, working with people who have walked a different path than my own and I worked in Saudi Arabia because it was important to me to know about a culture as different from my own as possible. When we went through orientation before traveling to Saudi Arabia, we were taught that it wasn't our job to change people... people had the right to be themselves, to their own culture, their own religion, their own politics. This was a "light bulb" moment for me AND a LIFE lesson....and this belief has opened many doors and taught me to be a better listener.\n\nThe pay is good, better in some places than others....I am rarely bored and I am a valuable member of a team. This is wonderful also....but then again, I have wanted to drown my beeper (accidently in the toilet) on many occassions when it keeps going off. The hallways of the hospital can seem to get very long, very quickly on an especially busy night (I work nights)..or day. I have on occassion tried to think of something "different" to do and so far...nothing comes to mind, except maybe retirement in a couple of years.\n\nThe disadvantages....you work with sick people who may be contagious, you need to take care when lifting patients, working with needles, working with aggressive patients that might take a swing at you, working with patients covered in "poop", blood, urine etc. It rarely happenes anymore....but I will on occassion "gag" on something gross....but you still forge ahead with whatever your duties are. You wash your hands hundreds of times a shift it would seem (even after wearing gloves)and your hands can become raw...especially in winter months. I take advantage of my time off to get my hands in good shape, but sometimes my hands look older and feel older the the rest of me. You will deal with it and everything else that right now you cannot imagine dealing with, no matter how small, or how big or how easy