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Your Professional Organization The AARC

Your Professional Organization The AARC. We’re fighting for quality respiratory care. Are you with us?. The CSRC Colorado Society for Respiratory Care. We’re fighting in Colorado to: Protect our licensure Expand and Protect your scope of practice.

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Your Professional Organization The AARC

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  1. Your Professional OrganizationThe AARC We’re fighting for quality respiratory care. Are you with us?

  2. The CSRCColorado Society for Respiratory Care We’re fighting in Colorado to: • Protect our licensure • Expand and Protect your scope of practice

  3. Why Do I Need the AARC?Changes in Health Care • With health care reform being a number one topic in Washington, it is of the utmost importance to support the organizations that protect and advocate for our profession

  4. Issues Facing the Profession Governmental/Regulatory • Home care • Reimbursement for services

  5. Issues Facing the Profession Recognition • “Respiratory Therapist” still not well known • Employers/payers need greater understanding Research • RTs best providers; research needed to document it

  6. Issues Facing the Profession Practice Issues • Medical errors on the rise • Concurrent therapy a problem • Protocols and care plans optimal • Disease management needs to grow • Outcomes/evidence-based practice essential

  7. Issues Facing the Profession Membership • Compared to other disciplines

  8. Our current percentage of participation is not sufficientWe Are Only 32% Active in Our State With our current level of membership in the AARC & the CSRC, our lobbyist do not have the influence necessary to advocate for us on Capital Hill.

  9. It All Adds Up to a Need for a Single Voice • AARC is that voice • Your membership makes it stronger

  10. AARC = CSRC Joining the national organization automatically enrolls you in the state organization In other words When you join the AARC you automatically become a member of the CSRC

  11. What Does AARC Do For Me? • Protects Your Interests • Keeps You Current • Keeps You Connected • Validates Your Professionalism • Develops Tools for the Profession • Advocates for Your Patients • Delivers Personal, Professional Services

  12. What Does AARC Do For Me? Protects Your Interests • Government representation • Research funding • Professional representation • PACT • Delegates

  13. Our PACT Representatives:1)Stay on top of state and federal legislation that pertains to Respiratory Therapy and the patients they serve. 2) Develop relationships with elected officials 3) Get mass responses to needed legislative efforts from RTs and patients Our Colorado PACT representatives with US senator for Colorado - Michael Bennett

  14. Role of the Delegates to the AARC House of Delegates • Represent the interests of the State • Develop, discuss and vote on resolutions that States feel would benefit all members of the AARC (example, we’ve requested that the AARC develop a process so CEUs earned at a conference can be separated by specialty)

  15. Bring information back to the States. AARC officers, the NBRC and others give semi-annual reports to the House, which we communicate to the BOD. • Activate the “435 plan”. When an important issue is coming up in Congress, an RT in each of the Congressional districts contacts their Congressperson encouraging them to vote in the AARC’s best interest • Present information on Best Practices. Colorado has introduced the Leadership Forum and both Student and Patient Chapters to the nation through the HOD. Other states are now copying them.

  16. What Does AARC Do For Me? Keeps You Current • Publications • Specialty Sections • Continuing education

  17. Specialty Sections • Pulmonary Function Technologist (PFT) • Neonatal/Pediatric Specialist (NPS) • Sleep Disorders Testing and Therapeutic Interventions Specialist (SDS) The Specialty Sections Network provides • Newsletters • Up to date information • Communication with your specialty section pears

  18. What Does AARC Do For Me? Validates Your Professionalism • Opportunities for recognition • Lobbies for “professional” designation • Promotes reimbursement for services • Raises awareness of the profession

  19. Tools for the Profession • Clinical Practice Guidelines • AARC Benchmarking • Human Resource Studies • Quality Respiratory Care Recognition • RT web site www. aarc.org

  20. How Much Are We Talking About $ $102 a year/$80 a year with a voucher Vouchers are obtainable at- http://www.colosrc.org/membership.htm Remember: RNs pay $240 a year & PTs pay $295 a year

  21. Tell Me Again • Professional Growth • Job Security • Protection of Your Interests • Government Advocacy • Professional Tools • Professional Research and Publications

  22. The AARC • Your Profession • Your Future • Your Organization We’re fighting for quality respiratory care. Are you with us?

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