This book combines the theoretical knowledge and psychomotor skills required to perform the required to practice the art and science of respiratory care. Other books only present the psychomotor aspects of a skill or procedure (monkey see monkey do). This is the only text that integrates the theory knowledge and the practical skills in one concise manual. By combining both aspects of procedural performance, indications, contraindications, assessment and outcomes may be more thoroughly emphasized. The inclusion of the American Association for Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Guidelines lends credibility to this approach. The clinical practice guidelines emphasize the importance of assessment of need, contraindications, hazards/complications, monitoring and outcomes assessment. Simply providing a “cook book” approach to a skill or procedure negates the importance of the theory required to perform adequate assessment and document outcomes of a given therapeutic intervention.

Product Benefits:

• Integration of theory and psychomotor knowledge--Better student understanding of the skill
• Reorganized around the NBRC content matrix--Readers use the text as an NBRC study aid
• Evaluation tools for cognitive and psychomotor sections--Allows the reader to better assess knowledge
• Theoretical knowledge post tests follow NBRC format--Readers are exposed to NBRC type questions
• Practice activities target learning new skills/equipment--Readers are required to apply new skills/equip.
• Performance evaluation tool serves lab/clinical settings--CoARC lab/clinic parallelism easily shown
• Inclusion of AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines--A one source reference for skills and CPGs