Respiratory Care
Help people breathe easier. Learn to use life-saving equipment and care for patients with lung or heart problems, while entering a field that's full of opportunity.
What is respiratory care
Respiratory Therapists assess, treat and care for all types of patients with breathing disorders from the premature infant to the elderly. Therapists provide oxygen therapy for patients who are short of breath and lacking oxygen as well as providing life support to patients who have stopped breathing. A separate admission process must be completed in order to be considered for the Respiratory Care program.
Getting Started
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Additional Information
Is the Respiratory Program Accredited? YES!
The Respiratory Care Program at Big Sandy Community and Technical College has received Continuing Accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC). Big Sandy Community and Technical College’s CoARC Program Number is 200477. For more information on CoARC or to find out how to contact them, please visit the CoARC website here.
CoARC accredits respiratory therapy education programs in the United States. To achieve this end, it utilizes an ‘outcomes based’ process. Programmatic outcomes are performance indicators that reflect the extent to which the educational goals of the program are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented. For more information on the program’s outcomes, please visit the CoARC Outcomes Data webpage here.
Program Goal
To prepare graduates with demonstrated competence in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains of respiratory care practice as performed by registered respiratory therapists (RRTs).
