2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

RSP 379 Special Population Assessments and Management 2 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Recognizing and managing diversity and special needs. Teaching and treating people with obstacles to learning due to factors such as disability, age, ethnicity or culture. Providing care in homes, skilled nursing faciltities and hospices.

RSP 378 Issues in Respiratory Care 2 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Clinical practice guidelines, pathways and case management; medical documentation and reimbusement; preparation for national exams; self-assessment testing.

RSP 377 Respiratory Care Clinical Experience III 2 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, and RSP 374.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Students will work under supervision in hospital intensive care and neonatal intensive care environments, assessing acutely ill patients, performing and evaluating therapies, and setting up, adjusting and monitoring mechanical ventilation. The emphasis in this course is the technical nature of mechanical ventilation.

RSP 376 Mechanical Ventilation II 3 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Ventilator modes, sensitivities and interactions with patients. Neonatal ventilation and other special needs; selecting correct ventilator and mode. Ethical considerations of life support; indications for and essential steps leading to ventilator commitment. Partial support and weaning from ventilator. Lab practice with advanced modes and trouble-shooting.

RSP 375 Mechanical Ventilation I 3 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Concepts of mechanical ventilation, early efforts and why they worked. Physiologic capabilties, indications, limitations of mechanical ventilators and factors affecting, shaping and controlling mechanical breaths. Classification of mechanical ventilators and making adjustments for desired effects.

RSP 374 Respiratory Care Clinical Experience II 2 cr.

• Offered: Summer
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Student will work in hospital pulmonary lab environment under supervision, preparing equipment and performing diagnostic procedures studied in Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics class.

RSP 373 Positive Pressure Therapy 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Application and effects of lung inflation with positive pressure. Lung compliance, cardiac output and shunts. Indications, goals, hazards, guidlines, criteria and application of various modes of positive pressure. Laboratory practice in setting up, monitoring and adjusting equipment for optimal therapeutic effect.

RSP 372 Airway Care 3 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Airway management, including types of artificial airways, indication, sections, complications, patient safety and maintenance. Laboratory manipulation of airways, tracheostomy tubes and care, nasal, oral and endotracheal suctioning and aseptic technique.

RSP 371 Common Acute Pulmonary Problems 3 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277 and RSP 374.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Study of etiologies and pathologies of critical respiratory abnormalities, disease and injuries from neonatal through geriatric. Effects of congenital defects, acquired conditions, traumas and multiple system failures upon ventilation and respiration.

RSP 277 Respiratory Care Clinical Experience I 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Admission to Respiratory program.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Student will work in hospital bedside care and pulmonary rehab environments under supervision, acquiring and evaluating clinical data, setting up equipment, initiating and performing prescribed therapies, delivering medications, teaching patients and evaluating effects. This experience will extend into the summer.