BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN RESPIRATORY CARE COMPLETION PROGRAM - ONLINE

Our mission, as the Northern Kentucky University Respiratory Care Program, is to provide our students with a solid foundation in current respiratory care theory and practice, and with the skills necessary for them to become contributing members of the profession. We strive to create a supportive learning environment which fosters initiative, critical thinking, self-discipline, and compassion.

The Respiratory Care Program faculty believe in the importance of providing a learner-centered program that is committed to excellence and public engagement of their students, faculty, and staff. The program provides leadership for the improved respiratory health of people in the community through excellence in education, public service, and clinical practice.

The following are program goals:

1. The program will graduate respiratory care practitioners with entry-level skills enabling them to function as an integral part of the health care team.
2. The program will facilitate the effective use of communication, critical thinking, professionalism, competence, and caring in the practice of respiratory care.

Direct patient contact within the Respiratory Care Program makes it necessary for all students entering the program to provide verification of specific immunizations.  In addition, certain technical standards must be met due to the physically demanding nature of respiratory care.

All candidates who receive acceptance must provide proof of imunity to and/or immunizations for the following communicable diseases:

• Rubella
• Rubeola (measles)
• Mumps
• Varicella Zoster (if no history of chicken pox)
• Polio
• Hepatitis B (series of 3 injections)
• A two-step tuberculosis (TB) test (PPd)
  
• Diptheria/Tetanus
• Influenza, seasonal flu vaccine

Get ready for realistic patient assessment.

In the Respiratory Lab, you will learn to manage patient simulators with emergency and more long-term respiratory situations. In all, you will learn exactly what it's like to work in a real hospital. The programmable patient simulators will be given symptoms and when you diagnose them they will respond to treatment.

So, are you cut out for this job? You'll find out.

• You will learn to care for the critically ill and the everyday asthmatic.
• You will use your stethoscope and evaluate your patient's breathing.
• You will put the simulated patients on ventillators and treat those with cardiac arrest. 
• You will treat with oxygen therapy.

• Mercy Health (Anderson Hospital, Jewish Hospital, West Hospital)
• St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Edgewood, Florence, Fort Thomas)
• UC Health (University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Daniel Drake Center for Post Acute Care)
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Tri Health (Good Samaritan Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital)
• The Christ Hospital
• Shriners Hospital for Children
• Dearborn County Hospital
• Meadowview Regional Hospital
• HealthSouth