California Community Colleges System Courses

Applied Advanced Life Support and ICU Monitoring

This course provides hands-on skills and supervised clinical experience at local area hospitals with the purpose of gaining experience in the initiation, monitoring and troubleshooting of noninvasive

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Advanced Mechanical Ventilation

This course presents conventional and unconventional strategies of mechanical ventilation to minimize lung injury. Emphasis is placed on the ARDSnet protocol and airway pressure release ventilation. T

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Applied Advanced Mechanical Ventilation

This course provides hands-on skills in lab setting and supervised clinical experience at local area hospitals with the purpose of gaining experience in applying evidence-based medicine to advanced co

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Physician Interaction III

This course provides direct physician interaction and student involvement in the clinical and nonclinical settings. The course will prepare students to present case studies coherently and efficiently

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Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care

This course presents prenatal development, high risk pregnancy and normal labor and delivery. Assessment of the newborn and pediatric patient, neonatal and pediatric diseases and disorders are describ

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Applied Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care

This course presents hands-on application of neonatal-pediatric respiratory care, physical assessment, neutral thermal environment and management of common respiratory diseases/conditions. Application

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Outpatient Respiratory Care

This course covers pulmonary function testing (PFT), sleep lab, pulmonary rehabilitation, and respiratory care in alternative settings. Emphasis is placed on indication for PFT and cardiopulmonary reh

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Applied Outpatient Respiratory Care

This course presents hands-on application of outpatient pulmonary care services such as pulmonary function tests, sleep labs, pulmonary rehabilitation and in alternative settings such as physician off

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Respiratory Disease Management,

This course explores career opportunities for respiratory care practitioners in the acute care setting and beyond as a respiratory disease manager or navigator. The course covers the health system req

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Applied Respiratory Disease Management

This course presents hands-on application skills required for a respiratory care practitioner (RCP) to function in the role of respiratory disease manager (navigator). Emphasis is placed on the design

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Transition to Independent Practice

This course provides supervised clinical experience at local area hospitals. This course facilitates students’ successful transition to clinical practice. The student practices civic professionalism,

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Physician Interaction IV

This course provides direct physician interaction and student involvement in the clinical and nonclinical settings. The course focuses on the implementation of physician-ordered respiratory care proto

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Computer Assisted Clinical Simulations

This course helps prepare students for National Board for Respiratory Examinations using computer assisted clinical simulations.

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Introduction to Respiratory Therapy

This is a survey course in respiratory therapy that provides an overview of the profession, including the various educational routes, credentialing mechanisms, professional associations, and job respo

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Respiratory Therapy Fundamentals

This course covers the structure and functions of respiratory therapy equipment. It acquaints students with most of the equipment used in the profession of respiratory care. Students are expected to b

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