This November, Respiratory Therapy will have been regulated in Ontario for 20 years. In that time, as well as all the years before the CRTO came into being, we have witnessed tremendous growth in our profession. The most dramatic changes have occurred in the acute care setting, where RTs are now performing procedures and fulfilling […]
Recently, a Toronto anesthesiologist had his certificate of registration revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) and was criminally sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting a number of female patients. Most of the offenses allegedly occurred in a busy hospital operating room while the patients where under anesthetic. I […]
This year marks 20 years that RTs have been regulated health care professionals in Ontario, and some of you, like me, can trace your practice back even further than that. An awful lot has changed in that time – and I anticipate that there are more changes yet to come. Twenty years ago, being an […]
Welcome to the NEW Professional Practice Blog. I’m Carole Hamp, the Manager of Quality Practice at the CRTO. I can’t believe it but I have been an RT for almost 29 years; having spent over 22 years at the bedside before joining the CRTO team in 2007. I started off as the Professional Practice Advisor […]
