I think respiratory in general has lost some respect. To often we administer countless breathing treatments without knowing why. RT's seem to be giving therapy simply for the sake of giving it, rather or not it is actually appropriate. Therapists seem to have lost the therapy part and went back to the tech part. I understand that hospitals are ...

Yes check out www.ketteringseminars.com/; they have review courses for CRT, RRT, NPS, AE-C

There are very few entry level CRT programs left, most programs are advanced level or very soon will be advanced level only programs. Essentially there is no need to have an entry level test if most of the programs are producing advanced level therapists. Money may very well be a driving force, but the once huge deficit for respiratory therapists ...

I have worked at facilities with RT driven protocols as well as those without any sort of protocol what so ever. It seems that in a lot of facilities RT's do not have the initiative required to implement protocols. Personally I hate giving q4 treatments to an asthmatic whose bronchospasm resolved three days previous; or treatments to Lung CA, TB, ...