CBE Initiatives in Respiratory Care
{"Image DocumentName": "CBE Initiatives in Respiratory Care", "Image ImageDescription": "CoARC Update. 11/16/2009. CBE Initiatives in Respiratory Care. Originally issued in 1998 and later revised in November 2011, the AARC published the position statement, Competency Requirements for the Provision of Respiratory Care Services (www.aarc.org) All health care practitioners providing respiratory care services to patients, regardless of the care setting and patient demographics, shall successfully complete training and demonstrate initial competence prior to assuming those duties. This training and demonstration of competence shall be required of any health care provider regardless of credential, degree, or license. Formal education is defined as a systematic educational activity in the affective, psychomotor and cognitive domains. It is intended to develop new proficiencies with an application in mind, and is presented with attention to needs, objectives, activities and a defined method of evaluation. The education shall be approved by a national accrediting entity. In the allied health fields, this training includes supervised pre-clinical (didactic and laboratory) and clinical activities, as well as documentation of competence accredited by an independent accrediting entity to be valid and reliable. The qualifications of the faculty providing this training shall be documented and also meet accreditation standards. AARC, therefore, supports recognition of individuals with competencies from the aforementioned accredited formal education programs for the purpose of providing care which includes a subsection of the respiratory care scope of practice with the caveat that such provision be limited to the elements contained within each credentialing examination\u2019s matrix respectively (AARC, 2012) AARC BOD Meeting.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}