The AARC's Adult Critical Care Specialist course is a comprehensive course developed to enhance the critical skills necessary for respiratory therapists who work in the critical care environment. This is an excellent course to assist those respiratory therapists preparing to challenge the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) Adult Critical Care Specialist examination.
In addition to preparing the respiratory therapist for the NBRC ACCS examination, this course is an excellent tool for those who are new to critical care. With content geared toward respiratory critical care and general critical care, this course is a comprehensive orientation to the respiratory therapist's role in caring for the critically ill patient.
Approved for 13.50 CRCE Hours
User Reviews for Adult Critical Care Specialist Course:
"I feel very prepared for the ACCS!"
"I have learned a lot from this course. It was definitely worth my time."
- Discuss respiratory critical care procedures, such as managing airways, administering specialty gases, manage ventilation, and deliver pharmacologic agents.
- Discuss general critical care practices, such as assessing patient status and changes in status, anticipate care based on laboratory results, anticipate care based on imaging and reports of imaging, anticipate effects of pharmacologic agents, anticipate care based on nutritional status, prevent ventilator associated pneumonia, and recognize and manage patients with infections and sepsis.
- Discuss determination of brain death and issues involving organ donation.
- Discuss patient autonomy and the difference between palliative care and hospice.
- Identify necessary components to prepare for disasters, including patient protection and equipment and supply management.
- Identify components of acting as an interdisciplinary team member.
- Discuss performing critical care procedures and troubleshoot systems such as chest tube drainage, bronchoscopy, hemodynamic monitoring, and inhaled delivery of vasodilators.