Yeah, it's a bit over the top but realistically speaking, it's pretty much right on the money. I can't tell you how many times I've been called STAT for IS's and other stupid stuff that just annoys you. After a few years of that, people wonder why we drag our feet sometimes. All you can do is roll your eyes and go to the next call,real or otherwise
it is really funny how many nurse bashing videos there are, not just RT vs Nurse, but you have paramedic versus nurse, fire fighter versus nurse, etc etc lol.....I've had these types of experiences, usually comes from the unexperienced nurses and those who think they are king/queen shit.
It more so reflects some of the actual respiratory attitudes and opinions about nursing. While funny...this does nothing to improve nursing's perception of RT. 22 years...and this is what you come up with. Bummer. By the way...I'm a RT.
I'm having difficulty believing some of you guys are RNs or RTs or that you work in hospitals. Having been a CT/MRI tech and now a RN, I have been on both sides of this street. More importantly, having worked in healthcare for years, I have developed the twisted sense of humor required to survive in a hospital. Come on guys, let it go...it's a supposed to be funny.
I am an RT and I'd like to give the big finger to all nurses who actually think like that. Most nurses I come in contact into cannot even do a decent respiratory assessment!
Uh excuse me? Not at all... Nurses work there ass off.. and save lives!.. when I saw this video I just got a little upset because if you were to interview 100 people on what an RT is.. guarentee more than 90% of them have never even heard of an RT or know what it is. People outside of the hospital. Just think they should get a little more credit thats all.. Nothing against nurses, in fact thats what I was going to go to school for, but decide to choose another path.
@jomama228 - that is because RTs are left out of the media (including television shows), its always "nurses and doctors", that is all you ever see...though on a few occasionals I've heard RT or respiratory being used like on Scrubs they said to page RT to get an ABG stat! lol
you have to admit there are some nurses that are a little like this, this being a parody does blow it out of proportion. Ive had nurses ask me to empty catheter bags for them on more than one occasion
I've been an RT for 8 years, and I've found that EMT/Paramedics are the most underappriciated members of the healthcare team. It's disturbing that first responders have considerable responsibility with the least amount of education and compensation for it. I'd say if anyone is getting abused, it's them.
@etano1 yes you are of course smarter than all doctors and nurses. how could we not acknowledge such an obvious fact? give me a break. RT is a four year program, just like nursing, NPs have a masters degree and doctors, well, have a doctorate. Im not saying that this makes doctors or NPs smarter than RTs (we all have had experiences which disprove that one), but it is extremely arrogant to say that you are smarter than people who have received more education than you.
I fail to see the problem because in my experience it doesn't exist. I even talked to a few RTs at work about it and they said yeah they'd seen these videos and some were funny but they didn't agree that nurses are lazy idiots. at all. i do a lot of communicating with the RTs and take every opportunity to try and learn from them. there are bad apples in every field but in general we are all working our assess off to keep up with the demands on us.
Wow, it sucks that people are rude to you as an RT. I love my RTs and try to learn from them all the time.
But this video is completely demeaning to nursing as a field of practice. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take off my clothes while you single handedly save patients.
@lungfixer - cynicism is lost on some people lol, I only worked for two years in a hospital and my forehead got more sloped from the constant forehead smacking I did when getting paged by nursing staff for unecessary things.
@mattiemerrill yeah it is but let us poor RTs have a wee bit of fun! Ok? many of my good friends are nurses male and female, but they still make fun of me ! LOL
Not trying to call any nurse stupid, that is not its intent. I have worked at many hospitals, and some we are very well respected, others we are called for anything and everything whether we are needed or not and we end up diagnosing the pt and it is not a respiratory issue. It gets aggravating sometimes when you are called for a breathing treatment for a cough. That is what the medication does--makes you cough. I have worked with alot of great nurses and RT and alot of bad ones too.
You fail to get it! There are many good RT's as well as RN's! There are a bunch if idiots as well that don't stop and think about the patient before they call RT!
I've been a nurse 7.5 years and never experienced ANY of this! I know it's a parody but just seems stupid. Was it the same facility you worked for 20 years? And sipping coffee? Please you're lucky if you get to pee. And I don't know how many times I try coffee and it's cold 3/4 filled because I had no time!
@etano1 I need RT peoople and depend upon them for their expertise. I do not expect an RT to know how to do my job dressing wounds, giving transfusions, and titrating cardiotropic IV medications. These videos just call nurses stupid. Looks like a lot of sour grapes to me. If you want to be a nurse, go back to school.
@etano1 yea that bc being an RT is a much more pleasent job with half the run around and they make almost the same wage.. No wonder nurses are jealious lol
soo sorry RT's. AT my facility at least in the icu burn arena Rt's get much respect, I always tell people they're top notch (most of em). Even our attendings will get their input and discuss with them especially on the sickest pts. And we're a major trauma center so our attendings legit intensivists.
OK. I like these videos because I have a great deal of respect for the respiratory therapists that I work with. The difference between the maker of this video and those RTs I work with is that the RTs I work with also respect me (a nurse). I seriously hope that you dont actually think that nurses are lazy stupid and useless like you tend to portray in your videos. I know how to run a code and whereas no I dont intubate the patient I do save lives.
@Wutzurproblem See my post to Jomama. I value the RN's and everyone else on the team. It's just that SOME of us have been a bit jaded from SOME of the places we've worked at. I know that's what happened to me. I think that comes from the facilities and systems where they want to pit us against each other in order to save a buck or make a bigger profit. Sad. We need to work together for the patients. I <3 the nurses I work with. We all have valuable jobs to do. ;)
@TheBambulanceDriver HA HAHAH....you guys have your own brand of hell!!! My GF is a Paramedic/EMT and she's found some funny stuff here related to your profession!! ;)
I. 'L P' R T = B. Treatments, precussion, ABG's, Vents.
II. (1) plus some training to discharge chronic patients with med changes.
III. SAME AS CURRENT RT's, add more patient education.
IV. "Critical Access" / "Advance practice". Kind of like an in-house "paramedic of RT" for smaller hospitals. Train them to intubate in the OR, put-in arterial lines, IV start & labs. A BIG HELP in smaller hospitals. Great for rural ER's with a NP/PA & RN only!
I don't see what is wrong with a lot of people in the healthcare field. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then find something that you will be happy at. It would seem like everyone would provide a strong support system for each other since it is not about them, but about the patients.... especially since they are severely understaffed. It would seem like they would happy to have the help instead of beating each other up.
I would like for a RT to walk in the shoes of a real nurse for one day - I bet the bitchin' would stop. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for RTs. They are generally understaffed and perform a vital funtion in the healthcare setting. However, they tend to forget that nurses are in the same situation. It's amazing to me how the nurse always takes the sh*t - from the doctors, from the patients, and from other healthcare professionals.
@protege5mpa i agree with you there, that is why i am not a nurse. i am not saying that all nurses do the disrespect, but unfortunately, where i work now, that is how it is. our opinion does not matter, we are treatment jockeys' and it gets old. i would never tell a nurse how to do his/her job and it should be the same for us RT's. I think that respect needs to go both ways in all fields. Also depends on where you work.
@slcreeden I agree with you on this one. I would say a majority of the time the patients respiratory distress is something that needs to be handled on our end (nurses) and can't be fixed by albuterol. If my patients SOB because they are tachycardic, we treat that, if they are short of breath because of pulmonary congestion, we treat that. if they are SOB because they are anxious we treat that. I honestly try not to page RT unless its necessary. but I know nurses who do this. sad :(
@Wutzurproblem The patient should come first. It's sad that you're putting your opinion of your profession and an RT's profession above patients' well being. The fact is, respiratory therapists spend 3-4 years of their lives, if not more, learning about the respiratory system and its related pathologies and are best equipted to take care of patients in those situations. You should be working along side with the RTs FOR the patient. Your ego should be the last thing on your mind. Shame on you.
If Nurses or the idiots that love nurses keep with this bullshit of belittling other medical professions, soon enough you will see RN's being replaced by PCT or Patient Care Technicians. RN's should just shut up and do their jobs!
You should call Department of Human Services about the ECMO situation as well as the local media. What kind of idiot would exclude RT from an ECMO team. And what kind of a hospital would put a nurse in charge of the RT department. You should announce a strike and alert the local media people will no longer stand for being short changed to placate RN's inflated egos!
Hmmm. Sounds like it's the other way around. The RTs sit around, feet up on chairs, c/o nursing staff whilest they are themselves are smoking, eating, watching TV and finding ways other ways to get out of work and be unprofessional...
@jj12398 BULLSHIT ASSHOLE...HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DO WE CALLED CALLED FOR A TACHYPNEIC UNDERSEDATED VENT PATIENT, OR FOR AN UNNECESSARY NEB TREATMENT. 90% OF NURSES CAN'T EVEN TELL ME WHAT ALBUTEROL DOES! THEY CALL US BECAUSE THEY PANIC AND HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DO, BUT DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE ASSHOLES AND CALL THE PHYSICIAN. WE ARE THE BEHIND THE SCENES HEROES OF THE HOSPITAL, MAKING SURE EVERYTHING RUNS SMOOTHLY. SIT BACK AND SMOKE HUH? YOU ARE A FUCKING FUCKING JOKE!!!
Have no idea what you're responding to and Im not sure what kind of backwoods hospital you work in where nurses don't know what albuterol does but in my hospital RTs and nurses work together and have respect for one another. This saddens me to see all the RTs commenting on here who seem to completely disrespect nursing. I cant do what you do and you cant do what I do. One is not "better" the other , this is childish
I took a shot at nursing (as a joke) with this video, its only fair they're allowed to take a shot back at us. Some of you guys need to stop taking this so personal.
This is so true. RTs are always treated like the stepchildren of the hospital until a CODE Blue occurs. Most nurses will either have the RT paged for something so simple like suctioning!!! or will spend 5 minutes to look for RT instead of doing it themselves even when a ventilator circuit disconnects!!!
@blindkevin44 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. you gotta be kidding me. This video is spot on and you have no sense of humor. Are you a DOU nurse, I bet you are.
Funny, most hospitals I have ever been think that the RT's job is so little and meaningless unless their pt codes. Then it's all RT! But I have also worked with great Nurses who truly appreciate our job's as RT's. You will have good and bad in EVERY job field there is....No one is perfect...This stupid skit still made me laugh...
Bro...I walked around for an entire 12-hour shift with a sticky-label over my name badge that read "Respiratory Guy" because I got tired of nurses who couldn't take the time to learn my name (which was written on their dry erase assignment board right next to all THEIR names).
Got a lot of laughs while passive-aggressively making my point.
I capitalized the word "parody" because I didn't want anyone to interpret this video as an absolute truth. I realize there are places where the RT's are respected and valued as EQUAL members of the patient care team (fortunately I now work for such a place).
I used sarcasm and exaggeration to make a point...which is that there ARE nurses who feel RT's are subordinate to them, and there ARE institutions that foster an environment which sanctions behavior allowing them to treat us as such!!
@lungfixer well obviously from this comment thread there are RTs who dont respect nurses too. I actually asked one of the RTs I work with if they secretly hate us. they found that pretty amusing. and yes, I know her name.
Oh come on, RN's dont abuse the RT's, we're are not the ones who check the "rt eval and treat" box on every patient! Where I'm at we all joke about these clips. Our RT's are part of the team.
..Im a RT student and I love the hospital I am training at.. its one of the Top Acute Care hospitals and they all the RTs and RNs get along and usually its reversed when the patient codes its always the RT, Doctor and then the Nurse behind them. Youd think for what we do wed get paid alot more.
Nurses and RTs make about the same amount of money and they have the same amount of education. And I think it must depend of the unit as far as who arrives to the codes first. everyone has their role and everyone is important
@Wutzurproblem are you serious? RT's and nurses don't even make anywhere close to the same amount of money and we have 2 to 3 times the amount of patients to take care of. we have 3, count them, 3 exams we have to sit for to get registered. Nurses at every hospital i have worked for get CEU opportunites out the wazzoo for free, yet RT and Xray techs have to get their out of hospital and out of pocket. We run our butts of daily and get paid shit for it.
Thats funny cause every place i go RT's dont touch the waste down.. they call the CNAs. to wipe peoples asses. Must be bad hospitals, where the RT's are the "bitch" because since they deal with the HEART and LUNGs, and SAVE lifes, youd think they wouldnt be treated that way.
I guess its only fair that I should play Devil's Advocate and admit that, along with "bad hospitals", there are "bad RT's". I've seen some REALLY piss-poor examples of my profession who do things on a daily basis to give Respiratory Therapy a bad name.
@lungfixer I sure as hell can second that!!!! Some RT's make you seriously wonder how the hell they ever got through school, let alone pass a credentialing exam. Professionalism is the key. You have to love this profession in order to be good at it. I've been doing this for 23 years. You take the good with the bad and hope you made someone a bit better for your efforts. RT's rock!!!
@jomama228 You're sooo right, in my facility we literally save a life everyday. I do like working in a small hospital.....but there is one disadvantage;;CNA's have direct access to us. Although technically my hospital recognizes RN's and RRT's to be the leaders of the floor. CNA's constantly come to our office to get us for patient so and so. We are compelled to go even if it's total bullshit.....don't really feel like explaining that. Do you need Resp?, is one of the first things out of their m
@somps33 . haha yeah CNAS and RNS always bug ya, and they freak out when the pulse ox says like 88 or 89 all the time! haha. Im glad you agree with me, hopefully the RT world will become stronger and stronger! and more and more hospitals will reconize that.
@jomama228 Oh hell, I remember working in a hospital in Richmond, VA, around the mid 90's, where they were trying that "Patient Fo(uck)cused Care". They had us RT's working in "teams" with nurses, CNA's, etc. They took our job titles and credentials off our badges and we were helping with baths, charting I/O's, all kinds of stuff NOT related to Respiratory. That job was a hell hole. Glad I left it.
This video is so true its sad. I work at a small community hospital, and on nights the doctors are never around, and I would like to say there are some great nurses that work there, but alot have no idea and if it wasn't for the RT's many pts would sit all night turning blue until somebody noticed. They use and abuse us but in reality they wouldn't know what to do without us either.
like me appreciate everything you do. I know that is not said often because its not said to us often either and its nice to hear it from time to time. I wish you nothing but the best.
I think of nursing as a team and that involves RT, PT, OT, ST, CNA's, Physicians and other departments taking care of the patient. That just seems absurd that they would take you off of an ECMO team. I mean hello that just screams respiratory. I my intent was not to come across rude in any of my posts. However the previous post which has now been deleted that I must live in my own little world is aggravating because I was trying to say there are still great nurses out there and those nurses
Due to regulations in order to do that we would have to have RT in house and our nurse to patient ratio would certainly have to be lower. Of course not having RT's is a corporate decision to be more cost efficient however I think it is a dis-service to our residents and I think it would actually be more cost effective and promote better care all around. However that is just my opinion and not a decision I can make.
I am at a nursing facility now that does not have its own RT's in fact it has no RT's at all and I wish it did. Nursing is responsible for all respiratory care there. We also do not always have physicians in the building so if you have a resident in true resp distress we have to call 911. Our nurses have 30-60 residents a piece and it would be such an asset to have RT's in the facility. This also means we cannot house vent patients which I love taking care of.
Thats what sucks because I originally worked in a larger part of the hospital in which our RT did not work directly with us on that Unit and we would have to page if we needed something. I then worked for an LTACH unit that was awsome we were a part of the hospital and not if that makes since. We had our own RT dept and Therapy dept which was awsome. Its great to have everything in one unit and you gain a large respect for the other disciplines you work with because you work so close together
I worked for a Children's hospital where the RT's were 1/2 of the ECMO team (we ran pump, RN cared for patient) . The existing RT Dept Director quit, and was replaced by a director whose degree was in nursing. Six months later, we were informed that the ECMO team would now consist of RN/RN (instead of RN/RT). When RT's when straight to administration to protest, they told us the nurses threatened to strike if proposal wasn't passed!! No RT was ever allowed to run an ECMO pump again.
Guess I should have capitalized the word "SOME" in my description. This is reflective of the population of nurses who do NOT value or respect Respiratory Therapy as a profession, and the hospitals that foster that environment...places where the RT Dept has been devoid of independent management and placed under nursing like an unwanted stepchild. How many RN's here have gone into work for their regular shift and been told their dept is being dissolved and they must re-apply for their job?
And if I do call you for something that I am unsure of I want you to teach me so that I will know how to do it next time. Yes I realize there are some really shitty nurses out there because I have worked with them and had the same frustrations.
World Peace, not so much it doesn't provide job security. Not quite understanding how me working with some great RT's and not being afraid to tell them so means I don't live in the real world. I went to school to be a RN not a desk sitter or a floor pacer so having to handle vents, trachs, suctioning, shit, vomit or anything else that pertains to my patient good or bad does not bother me.
That is sad that you feel that way. I am a nurse and some of my best friends and greatest assest while working in the hospital were respiratory therapist. We always made a great team and I loved working with them minus one and she knows who she is because it seems every time we worked together there was a code lol.
"respiratory therapy is the hospitals bitch"
...lol
MPSecare 2 weeks ago
LOL
bluefrog85 1 month ago
Yeah, it's a bit over the top but realistically speaking, it's pretty much right on the money. I can't tell you how many times I've been called STAT for IS's and other stupid stuff that just annoys you. After a few years of that, people wonder why we drag our feet sometimes. All you can do is roll your eyes and go to the next call,real or otherwise
6x10x23 4 months ago in playlist ER patients
I wish it was like this, we can't even get an RT to pick up an BVM they all complain that they have bad backs!
studentbull33 8 months ago
LMAO @ datzfast
lungfixer 8 months ago
crack washing school just got easier
datzfast 8 months ago
it is really funny how many nurse bashing videos there are, not just RT vs Nurse, but you have paramedic versus nurse, fire fighter versus nurse, etc etc lol.....I've had these types of experiences, usually comes from the unexperienced nurses and those who think they are king/queen shit.
ruthven78 10 months ago
It more so reflects some of the actual respiratory attitudes and opinions about nursing. While funny...this does nothing to improve nursing's perception of RT. 22 years...and this is what you come up with. Bummer. By the way...I'm a RT.
jnl427 10 months ago
Thank God for our RTs! Who else would we have to intubate our patients because the doctors sure as hell can't seem to do it!!
southmom1 10 months ago
I'm having difficulty believing some of you guys are RNs or RTs or that you work in hospitals. Having been a CT/MRI tech and now a RN, I have been on both sides of this street. More importantly, having worked in healthcare for years, I have developed the twisted sense of humor required to survive in a hospital. Come on guys, let it go...it's a supposed to be funny.
debbiev918 11 months ago 2
Heh, it's usually the other way around. RT's treat the CCRN's like crap.
brewdog11 11 months ago
@brewdog11 - only when they think and act like they can do the RT's job better than the RT can, such as operating the vent, etc.
ruthven78 10 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA omg this is so funny! I'm still in RT school and if anything, I feel like RT students definitely feel superior to nursing students.
robotvisions5556 11 months ago
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medicmatt44 11 months ago
Hahaha, this is so funny and yet so true. In my dad's hospital, the RN's do the very same thing to the RT's.
flameboy1236 11 months ago
@flameboy1236
WHOA, YOUR DAD OWNS A HOSPITAL?!?
;-)
lungfixer 11 months ago
@lungfixer Lol no, but my mom is a nursing supervisor. My dad is an RT and the RN's do the very same thing to him. I'm so proud of my dad :')
flameboy1236 11 months ago
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flameboy1236 11 months ago
Just call the Nurse assistants. I learn more from NAs than any other health care team.
raymanlegy 1 year ago
Funny! What's with this battle between the RTs and nurses? I respect my RTs and that's why they respect me. I'm actually friends with a lot of them!
Tulips47223 1 year ago
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medicmatt44 1 year ago
@medicmatt44 Are you sure your an RT?
Djanvk 11 months ago
haha so stupid.. stop all the fight guys and just laugh at it :) nurses and rt's are both important in the healthcare setting and thats a proven fact
malditangpinay100 1 year ago
I am an RT and I'd like to give the big finger to all nurses who actually think like that. Most nurses I come in contact into cannot even do a decent respiratory assessment!
mrschambers0905 1 year ago
love this
rustybones3115 1 year ago
Uh excuse me? Not at all... Nurses work there ass off.. and save lives!.. when I saw this video I just got a little upset because if you were to interview 100 people on what an RT is.. guarentee more than 90% of them have never even heard of an RT or know what it is. People outside of the hospital. Just think they should get a little more credit thats all.. Nothing against nurses, in fact thats what I was going to go to school for, but decide to choose another path.
jomama228 1 year ago
@jomama228 - that is because RTs are left out of the media (including television shows), its always "nurses and doctors", that is all you ever see...though on a few occasionals I've heard RT or respiratory being used like on Scrubs they said to page RT to get an ABG stat! lol
you have to admit there are some nurses that are a little like this, this being a parody does blow it out of proportion. Ive had nurses ask me to empty catheter bags for them on more than one occasion
ruthven78 10 months ago
Posted by ruthven78: "on a few occasionals I've heard RT or respiratory being used like on Scrubs they said to page RT to get an ABG stat! "
Those shows are SO fake...everyone knows in the real world they only calls RT's "stat" for Incentive Spirometers!!
lungfixer 8 months ago
how hard is it to find a job as an RT
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jesbsnrn 1 year ago
That what you call a true to the blue cuntttttttttt...lolollmao
Taxminia0311 1 year ago
I've been an RT for 8 years, and I've found that EMT/Paramedics are the most underappriciated members of the healthcare team. It's disturbing that first responders have considerable responsibility with the least amount of education and compensation for it. I'd say if anyone is getting abused, it's them.
ebayvideoman 1 year ago
please use your inside voice...god r peeps getting so jerked up over this-
kittydogblu 1 year ago
@etano1 yes you are of course smarter than all doctors and nurses. how could we not acknowledge such an obvious fact? give me a break. RT is a four year program, just like nursing, NPs have a masters degree and doctors, well, have a doctorate. Im not saying that this makes doctors or NPs smarter than RTs (we all have had experiences which disprove that one), but it is extremely arrogant to say that you are smarter than people who have received more education than you.
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
@etano1
I fail to see the problem because in my experience it doesn't exist. I even talked to a few RTs at work about it and they said yeah they'd seen these videos and some were funny but they didn't agree that nurses are lazy idiots. at all. i do a lot of communicating with the RTs and take every opportunity to try and learn from them. there are bad apples in every field but in general we are all working our assess off to keep up with the demands on us.
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
Wow, it sucks that people are rude to you as an RT. I love my RTs and try to learn from them all the time.
But this video is completely demeaning to nursing as a field of practice. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take off my clothes while you single handedly save patients.
mattiemerrill 1 year ago 4
@mattiemerrill - "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take off my clothes..."
THAT'S HOT!! Finally...a nurse who knows how to make her RT happy!!
lungfixer 1 year ago 4
@lungfixer - cynicism is lost on some people lol, I only worked for two years in a hospital and my forehead got more sloped from the constant forehead smacking I did when getting paged by nursing staff for unecessary things.
ruthven78 10 months ago
@mattiemerrill yeah it is but let us poor RTs have a wee bit of fun! Ok? many of my good friends are nurses male and female, but they still make fun of me ! LOL
wildwindsca 1 year ago
@etano1 hell, they call us for anything especially when they don't know what is wrong, even when it is not a respiratory issue. :)
slcreeden 1 year ago
Not trying to call any nurse stupid, that is not its intent. I have worked at many hospitals, and some we are very well respected, others we are called for anything and everything whether we are needed or not and we end up diagnosing the pt and it is not a respiratory issue. It gets aggravating sometimes when you are called for a breathing treatment for a cough. That is what the medication does--makes you cough. I have worked with alot of great nurses and RT and alot of bad ones too.
slcreeden 1 year ago
You fail to get it! There are many good RT's as well as RN's! There are a bunch if idiots as well that don't stop and think about the patient before they call RT!
shotzie50 1 year ago
This is actually demeaning to both disciplines.
gplovett 1 year ago
I've been a nurse 7.5 years and never experienced ANY of this! I know it's a parody but just seems stupid. Was it the same facility you worked for 20 years? And sipping coffee? Please you're lucky if you get to pee. And I don't know how many times I try coffee and it's cold 3/4 filled because I had no time!
mysticalwaters11 1 year ago
I'm a nurse and this video made me laugh out loud.
mccus002 1 year ago
I love my RT's!
MsGaNURSE 1 year ago
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sabine45102 1 year ago
@etano1 I need RT peoople and depend upon them for their expertise. I do not expect an RT to know how to do my job dressing wounds, giving transfusions, and titrating cardiotropic IV medications. These videos just call nurses stupid. Looks like a lot of sour grapes to me. If you want to be a nurse, go back to school.
sabine45102 1 year ago
sad but true......
natnicole09242980 1 year ago
great video sight!! hahah! hey check out mine.. youtube dot com /myalaynaangel
myalaynaangel 1 year ago
I'm really good at suctioning a patient with diarrhea especially if the RN is a biatch!
puravida032168 1 year ago
@etano1 yea that bc being an RT is a much more pleasent job with half the run around and they make almost the same wage.. No wonder nurses are jealious lol
vinny543210 1 year ago
soo sorry RT's. AT my facility at least in the icu burn arena Rt's get much respect, I always tell people they're top notch (most of em). Even our attendings will get their input and discuss with them especially on the sickest pts. And we're a major trauma center so our attendings legit intensivists.
armcb 1 year ago
OK. I like these videos because I have a great deal of respect for the respiratory therapists that I work with. The difference between the maker of this video and those RTs I work with is that the RTs I work with also respect me (a nurse). I seriously hope that you dont actually think that nurses are lazy stupid and useless like you tend to portray in your videos. I know how to run a code and whereas no I dont intubate the patient I do save lives.
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
@Wutzurproblem See my post to Jomama. I value the RN's and everyone else on the team. It's just that SOME of us have been a bit jaded from SOME of the places we've worked at. I know that's what happened to me. I think that comes from the facilities and systems where they want to pit us against each other in order to save a buck or make a bigger profit. Sad. We need to work together for the patients. I <3 the nurses I work with. We all have valuable jobs to do. ;)
Theodorej1960 1 year ago
LOL! ... And that is the reason why I do NOT work as a nurse OR an RT.
TheBambulanceDriver 1 year ago
@TheBambulanceDriver HA HAHAH....you guys have your own brand of hell!!! My GF is a Paramedic/EMT and she's found some funny stuff here related to your profession!! ;)
Theodorej1960 1 year ago
So funny!!!
krc52677 1 year ago
Nursing and easy don't belong in the same f***ing sentence.
virginiaplain100 1 year ago
Some NEW 'levels' of RT's perhaps??
I. 'L P' R T = B. Treatments, precussion, ABG's, Vents.
II. (1) plus some training to discharge chronic patients with med changes.
III. SAME AS CURRENT RT's, add more patient education.
IV. "Critical Access" / "Advance practice". Kind of like an in-house "paramedic of RT" for smaller hospitals. Train them to intubate in the OR, put-in arterial lines, IV start & labs. A BIG HELP in smaller hospitals. Great for rural ER's with a NP/PA & RN only!
four4vizslas 1 year ago
"The Hospital's BITCH"....Straight COMEDY!!!!
oksooner405 1 year ago
This is the coolest shit ever!!!
oksooner405 1 year ago
LMAO! I'm an RRT! That's exactly what they do.
jasmine2g3 1 year ago
I don't see what is wrong with a lot of people in the healthcare field. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then find something that you will be happy at. It would seem like everyone would provide a strong support system for each other since it is not about them, but about the patients.... especially since they are severely understaffed. It would seem like they would happy to have the help instead of beating each other up.
mw457 1 year ago
I would like for a RT to walk in the shoes of a real nurse for one day - I bet the bitchin' would stop. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for RTs. They are generally understaffed and perform a vital funtion in the healthcare setting. However, they tend to forget that nurses are in the same situation. It's amazing to me how the nurse always takes the sh*t - from the doctors, from the patients, and from other healthcare professionals.
protege5mpa 1 year ago
@protege5mpa i agree with you there, that is why i am not a nurse. i am not saying that all nurses do the disrespect, but unfortunately, where i work now, that is how it is. our opinion does not matter, we are treatment jockeys' and it gets old. i would never tell a nurse how to do his/her job and it should be the same for us RT's. I think that respect needs to go both ways in all fields. Also depends on where you work.
slcreeden 1 year ago
@slcreeden I agree with you on this one. I would say a majority of the time the patients respiratory distress is something that needs to be handled on our end (nurses) and can't be fixed by albuterol. If my patients SOB because they are tachycardic, we treat that, if they are short of breath because of pulmonary congestion, we treat that. if they are SOB because they are anxious we treat that. I honestly try not to page RT unless its necessary. but I know nurses who do this. sad :(
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
@Wutzurproblem The patient should come first. It's sad that you're putting your opinion of your profession and an RT's profession above patients' well being. The fact is, respiratory therapists spend 3-4 years of their lives, if not more, learning about the respiratory system and its related pathologies and are best equipted to take care of patients in those situations. You should be working along side with the RTs FOR the patient. Your ego should be the last thing on your mind. Shame on you.
iilovecokee 1 year ago
DUUUUUUDE that would piss me off!!! Im your RT, Not your damn CNA!!
yakiyeow 1 year ago
If Nurses or the idiots that love nurses keep with this bullshit of belittling other medical professions, soon enough you will see RN's being replaced by PCT or Patient Care Technicians. RN's should just shut up and do their jobs!
yingdiskette 1 year ago
PRN CPT! LOL!
zanerbob 1 year ago
Watch "Common Respiratory Equations" for more RRT fun.
505mcasias 1 year ago
lMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OMG THESE ARE HILLARIOUS
Viruspirate 1 year ago
You should call Department of Human Services about the ECMO situation as well as the local media. What kind of idiot would exclude RT from an ECMO team. And what kind of a hospital would put a nurse in charge of the RT department. You should announce a strike and alert the local media people will no longer stand for being short changed to placate RN's inflated egos!
ruffzan 1 year ago
Hmmm. Sounds like it's the other way around. The RTs sit around, feet up on chairs, c/o nursing staff whilest they are themselves are smoking, eating, watching TV and finding ways other ways to get out of work and be unprofessional...
jj12398 1 year ago
@jj12398 BULLSHIT ASSHOLE...HOW MANY TIMES A DAY DO WE CALLED CALLED FOR A TACHYPNEIC UNDERSEDATED VENT PATIENT, OR FOR AN UNNECESSARY NEB TREATMENT. 90% OF NURSES CAN'T EVEN TELL ME WHAT ALBUTEROL DOES! THEY CALL US BECAUSE THEY PANIC AND HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DO, BUT DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE ASSHOLES AND CALL THE PHYSICIAN. WE ARE THE BEHIND THE SCENES HEROES OF THE HOSPITAL, MAKING SURE EVERYTHING RUNS SMOOTHLY. SIT BACK AND SMOKE HUH? YOU ARE A FUCKING FUCKING JOKE!!!
DMB8183 1 year ago 2
@DMB8183
Have no idea what you're responding to and Im not sure what kind of backwoods hospital you work in where nurses don't know what albuterol does but in my hospital RTs and nurses work together and have respect for one another. This saddens me to see all the RTs commenting on here who seem to completely disrespect nursing. I cant do what you do and you cant do what I do. One is not "better" the other , this is childish
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
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sabine45102 1 year ago
@DMB8183
WHOA...EASY, KILLER!!
I took a shot at nursing (as a joke) with this video, its only fair they're allowed to take a shot back at us. Some of you guys need to stop taking this so personal.
lungfixer 1 year ago
face palm! hahahah this is so fkn true
decoymiata 1 year ago
This is great. Don't forget the part about not being able to find an RT because they are always outside smoking.
evilmindreader 1 year ago
Some days (read most days) my life feels exactly like she describes!
This was great!
mavjade 1 year ago
This is so true. RTs are always treated like the stepchildren of the hospital until a CODE Blue occurs. Most nurses will either have the RT paged for something so simple like suctioning!!! or will spend 5 minutes to look for RT instead of doing it themselves even when a ventilator circuit disconnects!!!
mattjasonnicolas 1 year ago
Hilarious. As an RT I think this is great. Don't get me wrong, some nurses are fantastic, but some are just like this. Great!
dogperson11 1 year ago
my hospital's respiratory therapist's <3 me and i <3 them.. : ) icu step-down RN
gidawg522611 1 year ago 4
@gidawg522611
Wow...just reading that lovely comment gives me a <3-on !!
;-)
lungfixer 1 year ago
Horrible video...not funny and disrespectful to nurses who are actually intellegent and do their jobs.
blindkevin44 1 year ago
@blindkevin44 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. you gotta be kidding me. This video is spot on and you have no sense of humor. Are you a DOU nurse, I bet you are.
MerryAndrew22 1 year ago
omg awesome!!!!!!!!! i love the stripper part. what about the wheezyscopes?
everyoneloveskyle 1 year ago
hahahahaha
kysike666 1 year ago
Funny, most hospitals I have ever been think that the RT's job is so little and meaningless unless their pt codes. Then it's all RT! But I have also worked with great Nurses who truly appreciate our job's as RT's. You will have good and bad in EVERY job field there is....No one is perfect...This stupid skit still made me laugh...
sunburst29 1 year ago
Love it!!!!!! :)
jlghighlander 1 year ago
Stripper vs Nurse... NICE!!!
acpdj 1 year ago
LMAO ,Ever hear,, Hey R.T..... I do have a name....... I don't say hey Nurse .
I thought the vid was GREAT very FUNNY .
CaptianRespiratory 1 year ago
Bro...I walked around for an entire 12-hour shift with a sticky-label over my name badge that read "Respiratory Guy" because I got tired of nurses who couldn't take the time to learn my name (which was written on their dry erase assignment board right next to all THEIR names).
Got a lot of laughs while passive-aggressively making my point.
lungfixer 1 year ago
@CaptianRespiratory You dont ever say " hey RN". I use that all the time. marc RRT
mrobershaw2 1 year ago
I capitalized the word "parody" because I didn't want anyone to interpret this video as an absolute truth. I realize there are places where the RT's are respected and valued as EQUAL members of the patient care team (fortunately I now work for such a place).
I used sarcasm and exaggeration to make a point...which is that there ARE nurses who feel RT's are subordinate to them, and there ARE institutions that foster an environment which sanctions behavior allowing them to treat us as such!!
lungfixer 1 year ago
@lungfixer well obviously from this comment thread there are RTs who dont respect nurses too. I actually asked one of the RTs I work with if they secretly hate us. they found that pretty amusing. and yes, I know her name.
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
Oh come on, RN's dont abuse the RT's, we're are not the ones who check the "rt eval and treat" box on every patient! Where I'm at we all joke about these clips. Our RT's are part of the team.
DilbertDW 2 years ago
..Im a RT student and I love the hospital I am training at.. its one of the Top Acute Care hospitals and they all the RTs and RNs get along and usually its reversed when the patient codes its always the RT, Doctor and then the Nurse behind them. Youd think for what we do wed get paid alot more.
jomama228 2 years ago
@jomama228
Nurses and RTs make about the same amount of money and they have the same amount of education. And I think it must depend of the unit as far as who arrives to the codes first. everyone has their role and everyone is important
Wutzurproblem 1 year ago
@Wutzurproblem are you serious? RT's and nurses don't even make anywhere close to the same amount of money and we have 2 to 3 times the amount of patients to take care of. we have 3, count them, 3 exams we have to sit for to get registered. Nurses at every hospital i have worked for get CEU opportunites out the wazzoo for free, yet RT and Xray techs have to get their out of hospital and out of pocket. We run our butts of daily and get paid shit for it.
slcreeden 1 year ago
Thats funny cause every place i go RT's dont touch the waste down.. they call the CNAs. to wipe peoples asses. Must be bad hospitals, where the RT's are the "bitch" because since they deal with the HEART and LUNGs, and SAVE lifes, youd think they wouldnt be treated that way.
jomama228 2 years ago
To: jomama228...
I guess its only fair that I should play Devil's Advocate and admit that, along with "bad hospitals", there are "bad RT's". I've seen some REALLY piss-poor examples of my profession who do things on a daily basis to give Respiratory Therapy a bad name.
...but dont even start me on that!!
lungfixer 1 year ago
Yeah I have seen some bad RTs as well, I guess I'm just trying to say these videos are sad that some people think this way I guess.
jomama228 1 year ago
@lungfixer I sure as hell can second that!!!! Some RT's make you seriously wonder how the hell they ever got through school, let alone pass a credentialing exam. Professionalism is the key. You have to love this profession in order to be good at it. I've been doing this for 23 years. You take the good with the bad and hope you made someone a bit better for your efforts. RT's rock!!!
Theodorej1960 1 year ago
@jomama228 You're sooo right, in my facility we literally save a life everyday. I do like working in a small hospital.....but there is one disadvantage;;CNA's have direct access to us. Although technically my hospital recognizes RN's and RRT's to be the leaders of the floor. CNA's constantly come to our office to get us for patient so and so. We are compelled to go even if it's total bullshit.....don't really feel like explaining that. Do you need Resp?, is one of the first things out of their m
somps33 1 year ago
@somps33 . haha yeah CNAS and RNS always bug ya, and they freak out when the pulse ox says like 88 or 89 all the time! haha. Im glad you agree with me, hopefully the RT world will become stronger and stronger! and more and more hospitals will reconize that.
jomama228 1 year ago
@jomama228 Oh hell, I remember working in a hospital in Richmond, VA, around the mid 90's, where they were trying that "Patient Fo(uck)cused Care". They had us RT's working in "teams" with nurses, CNA's, etc. They took our job titles and credentials off our badges and we were helping with baths, charting I/O's, all kinds of stuff NOT related to Respiratory. That job was a hell hole. Glad I left it.
Theodorej1960 1 year ago
@jomama228 Ok so what you are saying is that nurses don't save lives? Get off your high horse and think about what you are saying.
mrkevinwright 1 year ago
I guess it's in a sense "job security", but speaking from experience, this video is soooooo true!! I guess it's the same at a lot of hospitals!!!
Wendelicious88 2 years ago
This video is so true its sad. I work at a small community hospital, and on nights the doctors are never around, and I would like to say there are some great nurses that work there, but alot have no idea and if it wasn't for the RT's many pts would sit all night turning blue until somebody noticed. They use and abuse us but in reality they wouldn't know what to do without us either.
kgoller87 2 years ago
LOL sounds like my Hospital.
superqbnrt 2 years ago
Funny as hell...especially the "stripper" reference!
Mr911Medic 2 years ago
like me appreciate everything you do. I know that is not said often because its not said to us often either and its nice to hear it from time to time. I wish you nothing but the best.
riplan1 2 years ago
I think of nursing as a team and that involves RT, PT, OT, ST, CNA's, Physicians and other departments taking care of the patient. That just seems absurd that they would take you off of an ECMO team. I mean hello that just screams respiratory. I my intent was not to come across rude in any of my posts. However the previous post which has now been deleted that I must live in my own little world is aggravating because I was trying to say there are still great nurses out there and those nurses
riplan1 2 years ago
Due to regulations in order to do that we would have to have RT in house and our nurse to patient ratio would certainly have to be lower. Of course not having RT's is a corporate decision to be more cost efficient however I think it is a dis-service to our residents and I think it would actually be more cost effective and promote better care all around. However that is just my opinion and not a decision I can make.
riplan1 2 years ago
I am at a nursing facility now that does not have its own RT's in fact it has no RT's at all and I wish it did. Nursing is responsible for all respiratory care there. We also do not always have physicians in the building so if you have a resident in true resp distress we have to call 911. Our nurses have 30-60 residents a piece and it would be such an asset to have RT's in the facility. This also means we cannot house vent patients which I love taking care of.
riplan1 2 years ago
Thats what sucks because I originally worked in a larger part of the hospital in which our RT did not work directly with us on that Unit and we would have to page if we needed something. I then worked for an LTACH unit that was awsome we were a part of the hospital and not if that makes since. We had our own RT dept and Therapy dept which was awsome. Its great to have everything in one unit and you gain a large respect for the other disciplines you work with because you work so close together
riplan1 2 years ago
I worked for a Children's hospital where the RT's were 1/2 of the ECMO team (we ran pump, RN cared for patient) . The existing RT Dept Director quit, and was replaced by a director whose degree was in nursing. Six months later, we were informed that the ECMO team would now consist of RN/RN (instead of RN/RT). When RT's when straight to administration to protest, they told us the nurses threatened to strike if proposal wasn't passed!! No RT was ever allowed to run an ECMO pump again.
lungfixer 2 years ago
Guess I should have capitalized the word "SOME" in my description. This is reflective of the population of nurses who do NOT value or respect Respiratory Therapy as a profession, and the hospitals that foster that environment...places where the RT Dept has been devoid of independent management and placed under nursing like an unwanted stepchild. How many RN's here have gone into work for their regular shift and been told their dept is being dissolved and they must re-apply for their job?
lungfixer 2 years ago
@lungfixer CORRECTION , RED headed stepchild.
wildwindsca 2 years ago
@wildwindsca I am an RRT and have called us the Red Headed stepchildren of the hospital forver. Its funny to know someone else calls us that too.
lhrrt2001 2 years ago
And if I do call you for something that I am unsure of I want you to teach me so that I will know how to do it next time. Yes I realize there are some really shitty nurses out there because I have worked with them and had the same frustrations.
riplan1 2 years ago
World Peace, not so much it doesn't provide job security. Not quite understanding how me working with some great RT's and not being afraid to tell them so means I don't live in the real world. I went to school to be a RN not a desk sitter or a floor pacer so having to handle vents, trachs, suctioning, shit, vomit or anything else that pertains to my patient good or bad does not bother me.
riplan1 2 years ago
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maconlysource 2 years ago
That is sad that you feel that way. I am a nurse and some of my best friends and greatest assest while working in the hospital were respiratory therapist. We always made a great team and I loved working with them minus one and she knows who she is because it seems every time we worked together there was a code lol.
riplan1 2 years ago