MediMike Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Christ almighty. https://www.aarc.org/careers/advanced-practice-respiratory-therapist/ Thoughts? If you read the scope of practice it's essentially the exact description of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAAdmission Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 It doesn't look like they be sticking any fingers up any butts. At least not professionally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAdamsPAC Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) On 8/19/2021 at 10:09 PM, CAAdmission said: It doesn't look like they be sticking any fingers up any butts. At least not professionally. Or getting it done to them by " the Suits", physicians & NPs! Professionally of course. Edited August 21, 2021 by CAdamsPAC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemurcatta Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 This is ridiculous. Anyone that has worked for a couple of hours with heart or lung patients knows that they have problems that are not just restricted to those systems. This website advocates advanced practice RTs to function as APPs in cardiology and pulmonology but you don't take a specialist technician in one area and then train them with more specialist education to be an advanced practice provider. You need to go to a general medical education program and learn everything from the ground up. And that path already exists for them...its called PA school. RTs are welcome to apply and their experience will be seen as valuable. Its absolutely insane to think that we need yet another category of "provider" to further muddy everything. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornellSPA Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 It will be interesting to follow where this goes (if anywhere)...not sure it will get much traction! (RT to PA here!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtPA20 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 I was an RT prior to PA school. I have done AS-MS in RT prior to PA school and can assure you that PA education is vastly more comprehensive and I would not trust a RT as an APP- there's currently only one school in the country that has a curriculum that is accredited without state licensing. If you review the curriculum, they're essentially saying "Be a pulmonary PA, but with the education of an abridged NP program." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted September 5, 2021 Administrator Share Posted September 5, 2021 1 hour ago, rtPA20 said: I was an RT prior to PA school. I have done AS-MS in RT prior to PA school and can assure you that PA education is vastly more comprehensive and I would not trust a RT as an APP- there's currently only one school in the country that has a curriculum that is accredited without state licensing. If you review the curriculum, they're essentially saying "Be a pulmonary PA, but with the education of an abridged NP program." People who know both realms make the best critics. My outpatient IM preceptor was a really nice guy, but he, as a PT prior to DO school, went on a bit of a rant when he got a voicemail from a DPT who introduced himself as Dr. so-and-so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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