Respiratory Care
The Respiratory Care program at NDSU includes two or more years of academic coursework and a 15-month full-time professional-level internship at Sanford Medical Center Fargo, where students' class and clinical education is specifically applied to the practice of respiratory care. Graduates are eligible to complete a series of national certifying exams leading to the registered respiratory therapist (RRT) credential. This program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC).
Respiratory Care Program Goals
To prepare graduates with demonstrated competence in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavioral) learning domains of respiratory care practice as performed by registered respiratory therapists (RRTs).
The prepare leaders for the field of respiratory care by including curricular content with objectives related to the acquisition of skills in one or more of the following: management, education, research, and advanced clinical practice, which includes an area of clinical specialization.
CoARC accredits respiratory therapy education programs in the United States. To achieve this end, it utilizes an ‘outcomes based’ process. Programmatic outcomes are performance indicators that reflect the extent to which the educational goals of the program are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented.
Visit the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) website for programmatic outcome data including:
- RRT (advanced-level) credentialing success
- Attrition
- Job Placement
- Total number of program enrollees and graduates