COVID, Respiratory Therapists and Our Future

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  • Shanza Farzana Zafar Respiratory Therapy

Abstract

Respiratory Therapists are currently receiving more coverage on the media than perhaps ever before. Being experts on how a ventilator functions is not an easy job, but as a second year Student Respiratory Therapist, this article explores how this job is becoming more challenging amidst this pandemic. With simulations running on the web rather than on a mannequin hands-on, therapies taking place over the phone where communication is solely via tone of voice, and respiratory therapists in their final year of school across the nation being pulled onto the frontlines five weeks before schedule. These are unpredictable times and it is likely that things will never return to what we knew as normal just 3 months ago. The world is changing, what and how we learn is changing and we are forced into a new normal that we have yet to find out.

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2020-08-31

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Zafar, S. F. (2020). COVID, Respiratory Therapists and Our Future . MICH: The Student Journal of the Michener Institute of Education, 2(1). Retrieved from https://journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/michener-student/index.php/michener-student/article/view/467

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Stuck in the Middle: Student Perspectives on Communication during COVID-19

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2020 Shanza Farzana Zafar

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