What are "Practicum" Classes?
The student will attend Practicum classes which will meet in the local hospitals, clinics, or nursing homes. Under the supervision of a credentialed respiratory therapist, he will be assigned patients for whom he will provide respiratory care as ordered by the patients' physicians.
Long before the student performs this care on a patient, he will have heard a lecture, completed a written test, as well as passed a procedural check off on the specific skills needed to take care of his patient. This will be done in the classroom.
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By the time the student has graduated, he will have worked in at least four institutions, learning the differences between acute care and chronic care, between general hospitals and pediatric hospitals and between rural hospitals and urban medical centers. |
Where do I go for this Practicum?
As a general rule Lone Star College-Kingwood sends the students out in small groups of between three and seven students. We utilize the various medical care facilities in our immediate location in North Harris County and in Montgomery County, but we will go downtown and into the Texas Medical Center for specialized practicums in the second year of the program.
The list of institutions we have used in the past include but are not limited to the following:
The RCP student will also observe the staff in cardiac as well as pulmonary rehabilitation facilities, in pulmonary function labs and in sleep study labs.