EXCELLENCE AND INTEGRITY:

A COMMITMENT TO RESPIRATORY THERAPY EDUCATION

The BS Respiratory Therapy program forms and prepares graduates with entry level competencies expected of a professional respiratory therapist. The curriculum provides students with the opportunity to learn technical skills used in providing care with major emphasis placed on building the attributes of critical thinking and professionalism. This rigorous program offers theoretical and applied instruction in classrooms, simulated laboratories, and clinical settings to establish consistent competence in planning, developing, and conducting diagnostic, therapeutic, and supportive respiratory care interventions and con tributes to the advancement of professional practice through research.

                          

Programs Description

The Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy is a four-year allied medical profession consisting of general health education and professional courses. The first and second semesters of the fourth year level is a one thousand six hundred (1,600) hours of the clinical internship program in a CHED-DOH accredited training respiratory therapy laboratory with rotational duties in different sections of one or more hospitals. Rotation in different clinical areas includes Pulmonary Diagnostics, General Respiratory Care, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Unit, Sleep Laboratory, and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

This profession is a highly specialized healthcare field that focuses on the treatment, management, control, diagnostic evaluation, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities in the cardiopulmonary system.