The nurse orienting a new graduate nurse who is beginning a new job at the facility explains the role of the respiratory therapist by saying:
1. "If the client has any respiratory needs, you call the respiratory therapist to take care of it."
2. "The respiratory therapist is the only one who can provide respiratory treatments."
3. "The respiratory therapist helps to care for clients with respiratory problems."
4. "The respiratory therapist helps to provide respiratory treatments."
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Rationale: While the respiratory therapist is not solely, or even ultimately, responsible for care of clients with respiratory system problems, she is assistive in providing treatments, setting up and caring for mechanical ventilators, overseeing oxygen therapy, and offering advice to improve respiratory care. Facility policy will dictate who does what, but the respiratory therapist would not be responsible for only respiratory treatments. In some facilities, it might be the respiratory therapist who draws arterial blood gases, suctions clients with tracheostomies, and possibly even assists with trach care.
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