This is the first of three courses in clinical practice. This course is designed to orient the student to the hospital environment. 100 clinical hours. RST-222 Cardiopulmonary Pharmacology 2 credits This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of pharmacological therapy with a special emphasis on drugs affecting the cardiopulmonary system. The safe and effective administration of these drugs in relation to clinical practice is emphasized.
Emphasis is placed on the interrelationship of the cardiopulmonary system.
RST-224 Mechanical Ventilation 4 credits This course includes lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory exercises in the physiological principles and techniques of mechanical ventilation of the patient in respiratory failure. General assembly sessions and interdisciplinary group assignments by division level focus on selected topics relating to health, health care and its delivery in ethics, philosophy, history. Literature, human relations, cultural orientations, and policy utilizing diverse instructional strategies. This course is the continuation of RST-221. The student is expected to perform basic therapeutic modalities mastered in RST-221 under less supervision.