What Respiratory Therapists Do and Why Respiratory Care Is Changing | JJ the RT
What does a respiratory therapist really do?
Most people know what nurses and physicians do. Far fewer understand the critical role respiratory therapists play in hospitals every single day. From emergency rooms and ICUs to neonatal care, trauma, critical care transport, pulmonary diagnostics, and life-saving airway management, respiratory therapists are often at the center of medicine's most urgent moments.
In this episode of Voices of Vital Care, host Nohelani Graf sits down with JJ Valdez (JJ the RT), respiratory therapist, educator, advocate, and podcast host, for an honest conversation…
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