CEU Courses for Respiratory Therapists

This course is intended to review current prevalent respiratory care-specific medications. This course provides specific updates to respiratory therapy medications released to the market over the last 10 years.

Implicit bias training is an essential first step in understanding the complexities of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in healthcare. This course covers what implicit biases are, how they impact health professionals, and what interventions health practitioners can do to address them.

Implicit bias training is an important first step in understanding the complexities of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in healthcare. This course covers the current research on implicit biases and interventions for individuals and organizations to address and dismantle implicit bias.

This course provides a review of palliative care as it applies to the pediatric population. In addition, this course discusses common barriers, coping strategies, and grief associated with caring for this patient population.

In this session, practical information about ethics is provided from a clinical perspective. Core ethical principles as they relate to healthcare and senior care are reviewed. Behaviors that are considered unethical by most credentialing bodies are considered as well as legal and ethical issues typically encountered in one’s daily profession. The course applies models for analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas in healthcare, including CELIBATE, RIPS, and the Rest Four Component Model. Case examples illustrating various ethical dilemmas and issues that can take place in senior care settings are offered to enhance learning.

This presentation is intended to overview common ventilator scalars/graphics associated with various conditions common to the intensive care environment that result in patient discomfort and asynchrony. This presentation provides a detailed review of ventilator graphics in general.

This course comprises ethical principles and considerations for respiratory therapists and healthcare providers relating to Alzheimer's patients. This course offers practical guidance, based on case studies, for therapy and patient care, professional moral dilemmas, ethical and theoretical approaches, as well as discerning ethical decision-making.

This course reviews neuromuscular diseases and associated treatment strategies within the scope of Respiratory Therapy. In addition, this course also discusses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to caring for neuromuscular patients.

COVID-19 and its impact on the respiratory system vary in short- and long-term complications. This advanced course reviews the current literature on respiratory disease secondary to COVID-19 and its outcomes. The discussion focuses on increasing familiarity with understanding the management of hypoxia and respiratory illnesses of differential levels secondary to COVID-19.

In this course, participants define resilience and explore how it can be used to come through stressful situations easier. Participants will interactively practice strategies and see how they can use them to balance work as a respiratory therapist with life.