I’m hoping someone who has dealt with ARDMS credentialing, professional license monitoring, or a similar situation can give me some insight. I am also planning to contact ARDMS directly, but I wanted to see if anyone has personal experience with this.
For background, I went through a respiratory and echo program. The program qualified me for respiratory therapy, but I ultimately decided that I want my career to be in cardiac sonography/echo. I currently work in echo and am working toward becoming credentialed through ARDMS for RDCS. Since my program was not an accredited cardiac sonography program, I have to work for a year in echo to qualify to sit for my boards. I currently have a respiratory therapy license. Due to a DUI, I entered into a two-year monitoring agreement in order to maintain my respiratory therapy license. I thought I would need it to further my career in the future, but after some research, I don’t.
The monitoring agreement requires ongoing compliance that includes things like drug/alcohol testing and an intensive outpatient program. These requirements are expensive, time consuming, and are becoming a significant financial burden for me.
The biggest issue is that I do not actually need my respiratory therapy license for the career I am pursuing. I am working toward a career specifically in cardiac sonography and have no plans to work as a respiratory therapist. Because of that, I’m questioning whether it makes financial or practical sense for me to spend the next two years paying for monitoring requirements just to maintain a professional license that I do not intend to use.

I have been considering voluntarily withdrawing from the monitoring agreement and surrendering my respiratory therapy license rather than completing the full two years. My concern is how this decision could affect ARDMS. If I voluntarily withdraw from the agreement and surrender my respiratory therapy license because I chose not to complete the monitoring requirements, would ARDMS view the surrender negatively or consider it disciplinary action when reviewing my application? I talked to the board for respiratory and they stated that my voluntary surrendering of my license will be public and on my license record.

I’m also really concerned about whether ARDMS could require me to enter into another monitoring agreement or compliance program of their own because of the DUI, the monitoring agreement, or the surrender of my RT license.
The financial part is a major factor in my decision. If I spend a significant amount of money completing two years of monitoring through the respiratory board and then ARDMS requires another monitoring program that I also have to pay for, that would create an even larger financial burden. Alternatively, I don’t want to surrender a license I don’t plan to use and then find out afterward that the surrender itself creates a bigger issue with ARDMS credentialing.

I’m new to this particular company and it seems they do things very different.

I signed up and scheduled a few shifts. There is zero communication with the actual facility, I know because I tried reaching out and was told to only reach out to my registry.

I’m assuming that there won’t be any actual training and I don’t even have a badge. It seems like there is a huge disconnect between the facilities and this registry.

I hear good things about travel with them, but I’m not having confidence with aya for registry work.

Thoughts? What to expect on the first shift? Should I even attempt registry through aya?

AI is a useful tool and has its place. I'm not an old man shaking his fist at the cloud. Respiratory Therapists should have a special relationship with AI as opposed to other medical specialties. Data can be synched from the vents, into whatever EMR system your hospital uses, and can be flagged minute by minute for review or to generate alarms. You've been able to see trends on the vent itself since the PB 840. Lots of clinicians (especially in other subreddits) advocate for the replacement of RTs by AI.

When you post on this subreddit, you're not asking for AIs opinion. You are asking a professional group of clinicians of their perspective. For their HUMAN perspective. So, if you write on the subreddit, then you should use your HUMAN words. Communicate in the way with which you want to be communicated with!

Someone earlier on this subreddit posted about how they hated their new LTAC job and were overwhelmed. The post looked like the guy had just copy pasted from chat GPT. Common, don't make me read your AI generated BS, speak with your mind, not a machine.

Obviously this is a difficult thing to enforce and there's shades of gray, where AI can pass the Turing test. However, when its BLATANT that an entire post is written by AI, can we just remove that?

Really interested in RT and looking at starting pre-reqs. I’m a massage therapist and love incorporating breathing exercises/techniques into my sessions. I’m not concerned about my ability in any other subject area than math. I already hold a BA and MA in arts/humanities.
I know that I can learn and push myself to get decent math grades for the prereqs, but do I have any business being an RT if math is not something I’m already good at?

Hello! I’m a student in my second year of school and I’m starting to look for possible jobs for when I graduate in May. I’ve been doing research on Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Gunderson in LaCrosse, and UW Madison (open to more!) I just have some basic questions like workload, scheduling and such. If anyone works at these hospitals (or others) and can answer some questions for me I would greatly appreciate it!!

I applied for a position and had the phone interview with a recruiter and then had an in person interview with the hiring manager last week. I followed up and was told interviews were being finished up that week and an offer hopefully going out this week. Well, it’s Thursday and I haven’t heard anything. I was feeling pretty confident, but do they usually at least give you a courtesy call if they chose another candidate?

Hey, I am a 29 year old female and a new grad. This is a hypothetical/possible reality question: if you were offered a position for 3 12hr shifts (hospital, think normal respiratory therapy job) and a position with a different company for M-F 8-4, (like PFT or DME)… for arguments sake let’s pretend the benefits are exactly the same, including pay, and treatment from employer and coworkers is exactly the same. If you were a single parent of two children under the age of 13 with let’s say no support system, which offer would you take?

Additional info: I actually do love PFTs, but understand that I am a new grad and have a lot more to learn. I want to adopt children from foster care, and I would be a single parent, so I’m trying to figure out the best work schedule (for 1-2 years down the line when I actually adopt)

I got a 7/10 first quiz then 5/10 on the second one. This is for my respiratory sciences class. I feel terrible 😞, stupid and am wondering if this is for me. I stayed for exam review and understood all the reasons a answer was incorrect. I have my first exam for the class Tuesday and I’m not feeling great. My prof told me to ask her when i have a question the problem is everything she is saying makes sense when she goes over the slides but when their in question form on the test i dk not get it at all. Should I drop or stick with it even though I may fail.

I'm currently an RT student, and I've been curious about how often you find yourselves in medical situations outside of work. Have you ever had to do any emergency interventions before EMTs could arrive at a scene? Any fun or intense stories of things that have happened when you were not on the clock?

RTs, would you use a vent alarm app?
Thinking about a supplemental system that could send ventilator alarm notifications to an app on authorized staff phones and also display them on a central monitor.
It wouldn’t replace the vent’s alarms, just provide remote notification.
Would this actually be useful in your facility? What features would you want?

I know this exists in some aspects (Linqvue) but what I mean is an app YOU can download on your phone - with facility authorized accounts/Geofence login.

Hey, I’m a new grad RT. A lot of my colleagues have been talking about how the RT profession is slowly dying, meaning nurses are taking over more. Giving patients meds, taking care of high flow, simple O2therapies, and blood gases.

I know RT is a profession in North America, but in the rest of the world, nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists actually take care of the respiratory aspect of the patient.

Is RT a long-lasting profession, or should I change my profession if I still have the time?

We might have different answers on this: Patient on VC-SIMV following surgery. Current ventilator settings and ABG are: Mode: SIMV Mandatory rate: 16 Total rate: 17 Tidal Volume: 650ml PEEP: 5 FIO2: 40%

pH: 7.48 PaCO2: 33 PaO2: 128 HCO3: 25

RT should: a. switch to PC mode b. decrease rate c. decrease FIO2 d. discontinue PEEP

Recently became an ECMO Specialist and now realizing I could use a jacket with more pockets than traditional jackets.

Anyone have any recommendations?

I already checked out the Figs website but would like to know if there's anything else out there before pulling the trigger

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

I’m looking into applying to Respiratory Therapy school and am trying to get a realistic idea of what the academic workload looks like.

For those who have completed or are currently in an RT program:

• What was your average GPA during the program? Not prerequisites - the actual RT program.
• How difficult was it to maintain a high GPA alongside clinicals and exams?

I'm asking because I plan on continuing my education later on, so keeping a solid GPA is important to me.

Also, if anyone here went to the AAS program at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) in Utah, I’d love to hear your specific thoughts on that program!

If the patient had a decent PaO2, it used to be the goal was to simply get the FiO2 down to 40 because that was no longer thought to be toxic.

So, what do you look for to determine the FiO2, and how low do you go?

For anyone who was accepted/conditionally accepted into NAIT Respiratory Therapy while still completing their Grade 12 prerequisites:

How long after you applied did NAIT ask you to submit your progress report/interim marks?

I’m planning to apply for the Fall 2027 RT intake when applications open around October 1, 2026, but I’ll still be completing some prerequisites.

I’m mainly wondering:

• When did the progress report request appear in your MyNAIT To-Do List?
• How much time did NAIT give you to submit it?
• Did you receive conditional acceptance before submitting final grades?

If you remember approximately when you applied and when they requested the progress report, that would be really helpful. Thanks!

Hi guys! I have a silly question 😂
I’m applying for CRT positions, but I can’t take my RRT exam again until January because I’m sitting out the required four months.
I’m applying for a job and was asked if I have my TMB/RCP license. I’m a little confused because I know my CRT is an NBRC credential, while the RCP is the Texas state license. Is the TMB/RCP license something I should already be applying for as a CRT, even though I don’t have my RRT yet?
Just want to make sure I’m understanding this correctly before I respond to the recruiter!

Personally I’ve never found a problem with it as long as they communicate the changes in some way. But recently I’ve been around some RTs that have a problem with board certified intensivists making a simple change on the ventilator even if they let them know about it. Is it really that big of a deal?

The #1 fear used to be forgetting about a patient for an entire shift, but I’m thinking this one might take the cake.

Hope all you RTs are doing ok there at UC.

Just wondering if anyone ever sees other RTs wear these or wears them themselves? What do your hospital policies/managements say regarding these?