Early History
The first name of the Respiratory Care or Respiratory Therapy Profession
Inhalation Therapy
The first professional association for respiratory care
What is ITA (Inhalational Therapy Association)?
Investigates questions of department leaders but also helps the clinical staff in asking and solving their own questions about provided care
What is the Respiratory Researcher/Scientist?
What is Disease Management?
These 3 must be present in order for transmission of infection to occur
What is the Source of the pathogen, the susceptible host of transmission, and the transmission route?
The best place to look for information regarding the early history of the Respiratory Care Profession
What is the AARC's Virtual Museum?
The 1983 established credentialing body for registered RTs.
What is the NBRC (National Board for Respiratory Care)?
Responsible for the quality of clinical care delivered, assisting and advisement of management, available 24 hours a day to consult as needed
Who is the Medical Director?
A straight spine and use of leg muscles
What is the correct way to lift and carry an object?
These are the three major routes for transmission of human pathogens in the healthcare environment.
What is Contact, Droplet, and Airborne transmission?
Negative Ventilation was first used in this capacity
What is an Iron Lung for Polio epidemic patients?
A non-profit charitable foundation that helps promote and further respiratory care.
What is ARCF (American Respiratory Care Foundation)?
Responsible for the development and execution of orientation and continuing competency programs, new technology and team deficiencies
Who is the Educational Coordinator?
Electrical equipment in hospitals should be connected to prevent dangerous buildup of voltage and should function is case of power loss.
What are 3 prongs (Grounded outlets) and red plugs?
The simplest level of infection control is based on the recognition that all blood, body fluids, secretions, and excretions (except sweat) may contain transmissible infectious agents.
What are standard precautions?
Credited for oxygen usage
Who is Joseph Priestly?
The entity responsible for the review of educational programs to make sure they are following established guidelines.
What is the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC)?
The primary leader of any RT team with high skills, energy, forward-thinking, and innovative ideas.
Who is the department director?
A communication tool that is utilized in patient hand-off reports to describe the patient and improve care.
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, & Recommendation)?
A process that destroys the vegetative form of pathogenic organisms on medical equipment or other inanimate objects.
What is Disinfection?
The Father of Respiratory Care
Who is Thomas Beddoes?
Consisting of 50 state affiliates this organization encourages and promotes professional excellence of the RT.
What is the AARC (American Association for Respiratory Care)?
Includes application of technology and the use fo protocols across all care sites including the hospital, clinics, offices, rehabs, SNFs and homes
What is the Scope of Practice?
May include Name, birthdate, medical record number
What are the patient identifiers all healthcare workers must use before initiating care?
A chemical or physical method of destroying all microorganisms on the surface of a device or in a fluid.
What is Sterilization?