CEU Courses for Respiratory Therapists

This course discusses anatomical changes that affect the respiratory system after a total laryngectomy. An overview of pulmonary sequelae that result from changes in tracheal climate and conditioning, as well as solutions to improve pulmonary health, is provided. It will also review available heat moisture exchange (HME) devices and the supporting clinical evidence. This course is presented jointly with Atos Medical.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is presenting new and unique challenges. We are navigating unchartered waters with this virus, making it important to find new ways to work and interact while also taking care of our mental health and well-being. Many are teleworking full-time for the first time, isolated from co-workers, friends and family. Others are on the front lines caring for others. No matter what, our daily living routines are disrupted causing added anxiety, stress and strain—physically, mentally, and financially. Now more than ever, we all must take care of our mental health and well-being. The purpose of this session is to provide wellness considerations for work settings as we all navigate the uncharted territory and response to novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In this webinar, the learner will be offered strategies, exercises, activities and considerations for addressing their own health and wellness including stress management, sleep behaviors, and social connectedness. Additionally, symptoms related to trauma are reviewed along with techniques supervisors can utilize for effective, empathic management.

In order to treat the whole patient, we need an understanding of how stress and trauma impact their treatment, as well as the importance of self-care to keep us sustained. Participants identify rising levels of stress, understand trauma, and employ self-care tools to bring them back to effectiveness and wholeness with this course.

Harassment, and more specifically, sexual harassment, is illegal. This course reviews the definition of sexual harassment, ways to prevent harassment, and what to do should harassment occur in the workplace.

Healthcare is struggling to keep up with the demands that are expected of our professions. This course discusses how we can work to recruit and retain respiratory therapists into the profession and to the organization.

This is Part 3 of a three-part series in pediatric airway management. This course orients the role of RTs in multidisciplinary team care of the tracheostomy patient. It provides an overview of standardized care, decannulation recommendations, and discusses future models for trach care.

This is Part 2 of a three-part series in pediatric airway management. This course describes the changes in airway physiology, impact on swallow function, and aspiration-related risk factors associated with a tracheostomy. Additionally, the course discusses one-way valves and potential benefits for communication and hearing development in pediatrics.

As Respiratory therapists, stress, burnout and compassion fatigue are huge risk factors to your mental health and wellness. Stress Management Tools, such as Mindfulness, can help reduce this risk and overall stress. In part 2 of this course, you’ll learn how to put the tools of mindfulness into practice in your day to help manage stress.

This course will review concrete, specific therapeutic strategies for managing complex patients and their families who present within a critical care setting. This may include patients who are non-adherent to medical recommendations, have significant medical complexity, and/or other multicultural/diversity issues.

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on pediatric airway management. This course orients respiratory therapists on the history and clinical indications for tracheostomies. It provides a review of the upper airway anatomy and discusses considerations in surgery, associated stages of complications, and phases of care.