Practice Blog

Many questions are fairly straight forward and fit easily into a particular standard, policy or legislative requirement for Respiratory Therapists (RTs). However, there is any number of situations where there is no clear cut answer. These are the types of issues that would be shared in this professional practice blog. Posts relating to RTs professional practice will be posted monthly. Follow us on Twitter @TheCRTO to be notified when new posts are available on the website.

When Silence is Not Golden

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Carole Hamp

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 […]

Emerging RT Practice

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Carole Hamp

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 […]

Our New Practice Blog

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Carole Hamp

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 […]