Hello everyone!
I'm an intern at College Station Medical known locally as "The Med" and I have become interested in the drive4COPD campaign that was on the webinar a couple days ago. I've been working with the respiratory care director for the med Michael Nibert to try to get the staff here involved directly in the campaign. At the end of the webinar session, the speakers said the presentation was going to be placed on the aarc.org website, so for anyone or any department that hasn't seen the presentation, I encourage you to watch it and become involved. The webinar was a call to action to get people within the RT profession to have people at risk for COPD answer a simple 5 question survey so that we can hopefully help members of the community make smarter decisions about their health and potentially advise them about what steps are next.
The problem with respiratory therapy is that we don't have as much community involvement as we should have. In order to expand our profession, we must be seen and be directly involved with the care and education of the members of our community. This is a fantastic opportunity to help our communities and be seen, so I encourage everyone to check it out and do what you can to get involved and make this campaign a valuable networking tool for everyone within the RT community and our individual communities. Their website can be found at www.drive4copd.com and the webinar presentation should be up soon. Thank you for your time and responses are encouraged!
Jason Zimmerman RRT
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio