RESPTREC
RESPTREC® provides health care professionals with the highest standard of training in Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, and Education. Courses are designed to help learners develop the knowledge, skills and competencies required to empower people and their caregivers to optimally manage their chronic disease. We also have a brand new self-directed online course in IPF!
Sign up for a premium online + workshop course experience, or an online-only learning opportunity! www.resptrec.org
The next workshop-based class in New Brunswick is:
Course: Education for Chronic Disease
Location: Sackville, NB
Workshop: Sep 16, 2018 to Sep 17, 2018
Registration Deadline: Jul 31, 2018
Be sure to register early as spaces are limited! For more information or questions about RESPTREC, please contact Lori Kleiboer, Program Manager, Professional Education at [email protected]
2017 NBART Education Conference - Lectures
Women and OSA - Presented by Doug ScullionMichener Institute Continuing Education Information
For nearly sixty years, The Michener Institute of Education at UHN has remained Canada’s only post-secondary institution devoted exclusively to health sciences education.
Lectures from the 2016 NBART Educational Conference
Pear Healthcare Solutions Comprehensive Respiratory Education Program
Respiratory therapists are increasingly being called upon to help manage chronic respiratory and cardiopulmonary diseases from the community to acute care.
Outdoor Air Quality and Health and the Air Quality Health Index
The UBC School of Population and Public Health and leading air pollution and health experts have developed Outdoor Air Quality and Health and the Air Quality Health Index, a free and accredited online course for health professionals to learn about health effects of air pollution and the use of the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) to advise patients on actions to reduce the adverse impacts of outdoor air pollution on their health.
An online, on demand and accredited course is now available free to NBART members. This course is open for enrolment and our cohort intake is in 3-month segments, with the current session open until January 31, 2015. A new 3-month session will open on February 1, 2015 and run until May 31, 2015. The project adjourns on January 31, 2016.
Radon: An Online Course for Healthcare Professionals
Radon is linked to the lung cancer deaths of 3,200 Canadians every year. To help health-care professionals better understand radon, MacHealth, the Ontario College of Family Physicians and Clean Air Partnership, pleased to present a free online course — Radon: Is it in your patients' homes?
NBCC Saint John Offers Respiratory Therapy Online Learning Opportunities
The NBART has partnered with NBCC Saint John Respiratory Therapy program to provide some online learning opportunities at no charge to our membership. Please click on any of the links below to view the modules available.
Campus OPIQ
The Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT), is a privileged partner of the l'Ordre professionnel des inhalothérapeutes du Québec (OPIQ). We are proud to offer CSRT registered and associate members an exclusive access to the Campus OPIQ, a virtual platform that supports respiratory therapists in the maintenance of their skills in an ever-changing clinical environment.
Continuing Competency Program Launched for Respiratory Therapists
The NBART is proud to announce the release of the newly developed Continuing Competency Program for Respiratory Therapists. This document outlines the requirements a Respiratory Therapist must meet to continue to practice in New Brunswick. These requirements include proof of active practice hours, participation in activities promoting professionalism and mandatory completion of the continuing competency program. The program will ensure that the NBART is complying with the Respiratory Therapy Act by making sure all Respiratory Therapists have the capacity, competence, capability and character to safely and ethically practice. Effective April 1, 2011, all members of the NBART requiring a license to practice must begin to collect the minimum number of continuing education points outlined in the Continuing Competency Program for submission during the 2012-2013 renewal period and annually thereafter.