Moral Distress in Respiratory Therapists

Posted on December 2, 2006 by jeffd

In the most recent issue of Critical Care Medicine, Schwenzer and Wang (1) looked at the validity of a moral distress tool, developed for nurses, modified for respiratory therapists. Moral distress develops in situations when one cannot fulfill there their moral obligations to patients or they fail to pursue what they believe to be the [...]

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Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation

Posted on March 27, 2006 by jeffd

This past Friday I had the pleasure of spending the day Dr. Peter Brindley and his patient simulation team from Capital Health in Edmonton. They brought their expertise to Saskatoon and allowed us to experience the wonderful tool simulation can be for a medical team. I played RT all day while different groups consisting [...]

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