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Respiratory Therapist – Salem Health, Hospitals & Clinics
Respiratory Therapist | Salem Health | Salem & Dallas, Oregon Department: Respiratory Therapy || Status: Full-time || Schedule: Nights (Variable 3x12's) || Location: Salem Hospital Main Campus & West Valley Hospital (Dallas, OR) Pay: $40/hr -DOE+ shift...
AARC Update November 2024
The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) is actively engaged in several legislative initiatives aimed at enhancing respiratory care and patient access to essential services. Key legislative efforts include: Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform (SOAR) Act The...
RT Credential/Licensing
RT Credential/Licensing Steps to Schedule Your CRT Exam through NBRC Log into Your NBRC Account Access your NBRC account by logging in at nbrc.org. Check Exam Eligibility On your account’s homepage, you should see a list of exams you are eligible to take. Apply...
Lung Recruitment Maneuvers: Should we do them?
By Joe Dwan, MS, RRT As RCPs, there are many lung recruitment maneuvers that our profession has utilized over the years. Defining lung recruitment maneuver as a technique to open collapsed alveoli, incentive spirometry is a lung recruitment maneuver. For mechanical...
AARC Asthma Educator Certification
Dear AARC Member: I am very pleased to announce that the AARC’s popular Asthma Educator Certification Preparation Course is now accessible on line. This means that you can view the asthma course when it is convenient to you. It’s available on line and on demand.There...
Respiratory Therapists – Licensing Requirements January 1, 2018
1430 Tandem Ave NE, Suite 180Salem, OR 97301-2192Phone: (503) 378-8667Fax: (503) 585-9114www.healthoregon.org/hlo DATE: September 19, 2017 TO: Interested Parties – Respiratory Therapists and Polysomnographic Technologists Licensing Board...
2016 Pacific Northwest Conference
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESPIRATORY CARE CONFERENCE Holiday Inn Portland South-Wilsonville Oregon March 2016 conference was a success! Come Join us for the 2017 Pacific Northwest Respiratory Care Conference in Wilsonville to check out what is going on in 2017 and beyond.
Respiratory Care Week-October 23-29, 2016
Join the AARC members in Celebrating our Profession. Click here for more information from the AARC. More information will be coming soon!
2016 OSRC Scholarship Winners
Congratulations 2016 OSRC Scholarship Winners This year the OSRC is proud to announce its 2016 scholarship winners. We had several deserving applications, but unfortunately could only pick the top four. From the Associate programs we congratulate; Yulitta Zhiryada...
2016 OSRC Poster Board Winner
This year the OSRC is proud to announce the 2016 Poster Board presentation winner; Jeremy Plambeck from OIT. Jeremy presented an outstanding study on At Home Sleep Studies, a Tool Aiding in the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. This study was a retrospective look...