Respiratory Therapy Assistant

Duties and responsibilities:      

  The respiratory therapist treats people with disorders affecting the cardiopulmonary system such as asthma, emphysema, pneumonia, cardiovascular disorders, and trauma. In the hospital setting, the respiratory therapist provides care and life support to patients in the emergency room, intensive care units, general hospital areas, the pulmonary diagnostics laboratory and other specialty areas such as rehabilitation.

Salary: $57,200

Education:

  At a minimum, respiratory therapists need an associate degree, but the field’s elite also have a bachelor’s degree. Myers says there are about 380 to 390 associate programs throughout the country and up to 55 bachelor’s degree programs. Anticipate coursework in anatomy, chemistry, microbiology, pharmacology and mathematics. These programs also offer training on performing diagnostic tests and patient assessment.

Reflection:

  I think I would want to be a respiratory therapy assistant because my brother has asthma I would want to help him out on that. I would help him do all his routine.