 Hi guys, so today I want to do a video on respiratory therapists also called RTs and nurses or RNs And I had someone ask me this question to do a video on it about like what RTs do and like their relationship to RNs Like how you guys work together, but I thought it was a really good question Actually, I never thought of this idea. So I want to kind of talk about a little bit two things Working in my new job in the ICU. I am a lot more involved with the RTs than I was at My med surge job. I guess that's only like one thing But basically what I'm trying to say is like when I worked med surge RTs Like they would come in like do your breathing treatments or if like you had someone who was needing more oxygen You may like calm back. Hey, just oh, okay. You think it's play time Hey to let just let you know the patient in room 10 is Desatting on the two leaders. So I put them on an oxymizer or something I'm just making that up. I why you would go from two leaders to an oxymizer. I don't know But if you You know you would probably that's something you like you could call RT about but working in the ICU RTs and RNs work a lot closer and that's because a lot of your patients there are having respiratory issues They're on ventilators on bipap. They have a CPAP at night or whatnot And so they're really managing your ventilator settings and all those things Respiratory therapists are very very smart and very good at what they do and you want them on your side I can't tell you how many times. I mean, I guess I haven't been working that long But still several times I have been in a room and I'm like the ventilator speaking about something or Also in the patient's lungs sound differently and I just call respiratory and I'm like hey This is going on. Can you come help me and they always are so nice and helpful and like seriously There was like if there's like a code or patients getting intubated all of a sudden there's like five RTs there I swear every single time five RTs there and you want them there because like even though as a nurse We need to know how to like manage a patient's airway and their breathing and be able to recognize lung sounds and distress and all those things RTs are like specifically trained on Respiratory the respiratory system that is what they do and so you really want RTs there They are very very good at what they do. They can adjust your well You have to have a doctor's order usually to adjust the ventilator settings But a lot of times they know what the patient needs and then we'll go talk to the doctor about it But they're very very good at managing all those things. I know I say that a bunch of times But like you want RT on your side because if your patient's going downhill you want RT there as a nurse You don't want to have to worry about Doing the airway when you're like pushing meds to intubate or pushing med vacations because you're coding a patient You want to be able to do that while someone is like worried about the airway? So RTs are wonderful I hope that kind of gives a little background information like what RTs and RNs do but basically to sum it up RTs Manage the airway respiratory system by doing like ventilators by pap nasal cannula breathing treatments and those things Suctioning all those things listening to the lung sounds They can draw your ABGs. So if you're needing an arterial blood gas, they can draw those So all again respiratory things and they're very smart at what they do. So Be friends with your RT. Just like I say be friends with your CNA You want to have the RTs on your side because again, you want them there if something's going wrong, you want them there Thank you guys for watching this video. Give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys next time