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What is the expected role of the RT? - correct answer ✅Patient assessment, disease management, diagnostic evaluation, management, education, rehabilitation, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system. Where are the majority of RTs employed? - correct answer ✅Hospitals and acute care settings (medical offices, insurance companies, ground and air interfacility transport, homes, sleep labs, skilled nursing facilities, pulmonary rehab programs, outpatient clinics). Who is the "father of medicine"? - correct answer ✅Hippocrates What were RTs first called? What was their primary duty? - correct answer ✅inhalation specialist, they hauled O2 cylinders and applied O2 delivery devices. When did the term Respiratory Therapist become standard? - correct answer ✅ 1974
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Who developed the ability to produce oxygen on a large-scale? - correct answer ✅Karl von Linde in 1907 The AARC is our professional organization. What was it first called? - correct answer ✅Inhalational Therapy Association (ITA) What year did it become AARC? - correct answer ✅ 1982 ASLRC - correct answer ✅Alabama society of Respiratory Care, Alabama chapter of AARC. NBRC - correct answer ✅National Board for Respiratory Care, creates accrediting exams such as the TMC and CSE for respiratory therapist to get a license to practice. CoARC - correct answer ✅Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care, accredits respiratory care degree programs at the associate,
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What does the term licensure refer to? - correct answer ✅Licensing of RTs is a mechanism of protecting the public's health, safety, and welfare by mandating a minimal level of competency in respiratory care. Who is the Joint Commission? - correct answer ✅independent agency that monitors quality of care in hospitals and healthcare organizations. CMS - correct answer ✅centers for Medicare and Medicaid, centralized agency for monitoring the quality of care in hospitals and health care organizations. PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle) - correct answer ✅Plan- determine the specific aim, duration, data, collection strategy, and the team that will run the quality improvement project. Do- collect data and record the observations. Study- analyze results and derive conclusions. Act- change the process for improvement; plan the next cycle.
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Six Sigma - correct answer ✅adopts the DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze- Improve-Control) cycle for continuous quality improvement. define- define the problem measure- quantify the problem analyze- identify the cause of the problem improve- solve the root cause and verify improvement control- maintain the gains and pursue perfection Lean management - correct answer ✅Eliminating waste of time, excess work, and unevenness of product are the goals. What does electrical shock do to the heart? - correct answer ✅high currents passing through the chest cab cause ventricular fibrillation, diaphragm dysfunction, and death. Why do we worry about oxygen and fires? - correct answer ✅Fires in oxygen-enriched atmospheres (OEAs) are larger, more intense, faster burning, and more difficult to
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What can you do to improve listening skills according to the text? - correct answer ✅Use "read back" scenario. Also focus improving sending skills, receiving skills, feedback skills. What is the two-patient identifier system? Why do we use it? - correct answer ✅Patient name, birth date, medical record number. Used to ensure correct patient gets necessary treatment. What transmits infections most in healthcare? - correct answer ✅Humans What is the first step in equipment processing before it can be used on another patient? - correct answer ✅cleaning What is the difference between cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilization? - correct answer ✅cleaning- involves removing dirt and organic material, failure to clean equipment properly can render all subsequent processing efforts ineffective.
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disinfecting- destroys vegetative forms of all pathogens except bacterial spores, it can involve either chemical or physical methods. Chemical disinfection includes applying chemical solutions and immersing it for a set period of time. Physical disinfection includes pasteurization. Sterilization- destroys all microorganisms, it can involve either chemical or physical methods. Steam sterilization is the most common and easiest. Low temperature sterilization technologies include ethylene oxide (colorless and toxic gas). Medical devices contacting sterile body tissues or fluids are critical items and should be sterile before use. Immediate use sterilization is flash sterilization. An items is placed in an open tray or a specially designed container to allow for rapid penetration of steam. Not recommended as a routine method. What special precautions must be taken when a patient has C.Diff?
correct answer ✅Contact precautions used since C. Diff is a multidrug-resistant organism. Private room (if available), hand hygiene, wear gown and gloves, remove gown and gloves before leaving pts room. What precautions should be taken for a patient with TB, Measles, Smallpox, or COVID? -
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Standard precautions - correct answer ✅hand hygiene, gloves, mouth, eye protection, face shields, respiratory protection, gowns, patient care equipment, occupational health and blood-borne pathogens, patient placement. Airborne precautions - correct answer ✅isolation techniques intended to reduce risk of selected infectious agents transmitted by "small droplets" of aerosol particles, such as M. tuberculosis. Use of N-95 respirator, room must be negative pressured, have two air exchanges per hour, and use HEPA filters. Describe 5 key components of an infection prevention program - correct answer ✅Surveillance- ongoing process of monitoring pts and health care personnel. Investigation- investigating potential issues. Prevention- steps taking to prevent infections. Control- controlling when an outbreak occurs. Reporting- report issues.
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What is ethics? What is the goal? How does it affect healthcare? - correct answer ✅ethics- how we should act. Goal- "respect the humanity in persons". Affect on healthcare- moral obligations impose ethical duties on therapist. Tools of cross-examination cited in legal proceedings. Why is patient privacy so important? - correct answer ✅Healthcare workers are to "respect the secrets which are confided even after the patient has died". Patients have a right to privacy. What is the AARC Code of Ethics? - correct answer ✅The code represents a set of general principles and rules that have been developed to help ensure that the health needs of the public are provided in safe, effective, and caring manner. Nonmaleficence - correct answer ✅requires healthcare providers to avoid harming patients. "First do no harm".
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What is distributive justice? - correct answer ✅Achieving a balance between increasing healthcare expenses and cost pressure may lead to some form of rationing of the delivery of healthcare services. What actions are involved in making an ethical decision? - correct answer ✅Formalism- relies on rules and principles. Justifiable if it upholds applied rules and principles. Consequentialism- decisions based on assessment of consequences. Judged to be right and wrong on consequences. Virtue and ethics- asks what a virtuous person would do. Asks what a good practitioner would do. Institutionalism- institution is involved in decision-making. "Treat others fairly". What is the difference between Civil vs. Administrative vs. Criminal law? - correct answer ✅Civil law- protects private citizens and organizations from others who might seek to take unfair and unlawful advantage of them.
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Administrative law- consists of the countless regulations set by government agencies. Criminal law- deals with acts or offences against the welfare or safety of the public. What is negligence? What must happen to be proven? - correct answer ✅the failure to perform one's duties completely. Must prove their was causation. (Ex- treatment was done for more critical patient so other patient that was less critical was neglected) What is HIPPA? What do the initials stand for? What does it cover? - correct answer ✅Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996 (HIPPA)- protect individuals' health information and not impede exchange of information needed to provide quality healthcare. What are economic damages that can be imposed during a negligence lawsuit? - correct answer ✅Damages awarded for economic loss. Loss of salary or wages.
