12 hours shifts?, 8 hour shifts? My son?, 10mins to get to work? 5 mins to get to clinicals?, Midterm Tomorrow!?, Party? I can’t make it!
The most common things I hear around a Respiratory Therapist or any med student. Even our best friends, the RNs say the same thing. We have no life for the […]
Well I have this huge midterm coming up and its all about the medical gas therapy. It consists of ATPS, BTPS, STPD. I don’t think we will ever use this because the ventilators do it automatically but its also good to know. If anything happens then you can always come back and calculate it. For […]
This has nothing to do with respiratory therapy but this might be a nice pasttime for all you RT people who want a little excitement. Recently I purchased a Nintendo Wii and the first game I bought was Trauma Center.
The game is great for med students because it focuses on being a Surgeon and operating. […]
All i have to say is “wow” this is what I will be doing. Due to Privacy of patients I can not say anything. Sucks doesn’t it? Well maybe I can at least say the work I did.
At first I’m thinking what am I suppose to do? I have less than 3 months of experience […]
So if you are administering oxygen, you can use a mask. This Simple Mask has to be running at 5LPM (liters per min) at the very least because anything lower will not administer the oxygen. Why? Well since there are holes on the mask, anything lower than 5 LPM of oxygen will escape to the […]
So I had my first huge midterm for the lab portion of respiratory theapy I was so nervous that I couldn’t even eat. There was a written portion and we had to know the different functions of (sorry had to take it out). I was in a rush because this whole exam was timed. Obviously […]
Clinical Orientation!
Well this post is really late since I barely have anytime. My first day was just an ordinary day. I had to go to Wal Mart to buy a black pen because for some reason all my pens are blue. Why black ink? Because it is easier to copy on a machine. So I […]
We are about to have our first midterm and frankly.. I havn’t been studying as much as I want to. So right now I was very stressed out because I have about 7 weeks worth of notes + lab practicals needing to be studied. As I’m looking at my notes week by week I realize […]
This blog post has nothing to do with Oxygen. This blog is dedicated to my grandfather who passed away a few months back. My first clinical was today & I realized how much my grandfather would had loved to see me in my RT uniform. It symbolizes my profession and what he wanted me to […]