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The (Respiratory) Graduate

Baby Steps
July 16, 2008 1:54 PM by Bj Smith
Becoming the therapist I want to be often seems like a long impossible road. So I try not to focus on the road or the finish per se; I focus on the small baby steps that are taken that are so important in making me more independent and separating me from Read More...
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A New Beginning and “The Test” (Part 2)
June 23, 2008 9:43 AM by Bj Smith
Wednesday June 11th 2008 à D-Day I pulled into the parking lot 2 hours early. I was determined to be on time for my 9:00 am appointment. If there was a chance of me not walking home a certified respiratory therapist, it wouldn't be on a technicality like Read More...
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A New Beginning and “The Test” (Part 1)
June 23, 2008 9:40 AM by Bj Smith
The most nervous build-up of my life. 18 months of strenuous studying, information overload, banning together with fellow classmates to try and make sense of it all... It all comes down to this... In the final weeks of school, we were encouraged to apply Read More...
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A Message To New Students
June 9, 2008 10:20 AM by Bj Smith
So you've taken all of the pre-requisite courses, passed the entrance exam and gotten ahead of the long waiting lines that most respiratory therapy programs seem to accrue nowadays. You've made it! Congratulations! It's all downhill from here... Uh...not Read More...
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Stern Lady
April 22, 2008 2:46 PM by Bj Smith
While walking from room to room in the ICU, it is immediately evident that I am new. I'm a respiratory therapist on his last clinical rotation ever, at a mid-size community hospital. I am green to the profession, a point that is only stressed more by Read More...
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