Sunday, June 26
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7:30 am–8:20 am
General Session
7:30 am–8:20 am
The State of the Profession
Frank R Salvatore Jr MBA RRT FAARC, Danbury CT
In this Keynote Address, President Salvatore will update the audience on the goals, priorities, and strategic focus of the Association in 2016. Attend this presentation and better understand the current and future direction of the profession, and notably the AARC's endorsement of moving to a bachelor's degree for entry into practice. This is your opportunity to hear from the president of the AARC regarding topics that are important to you!
8:30 am–3:40 pm
Educator Track
8:30 am–9:10 am
Open Your Eyes To Your Blindspots
Crystal Dunlevy EdD RRT, Columbus OH
Are you able to assess your patients, co-workers and students in a fair and accurate way? This presentation will address hidden biases that we all possess based on a lifetime of experience and exposure. Implicit bias and the impact it can have on patient care and daily interactions will be discussed. Mechanisms for reducing implicit bias will be presented.
9:15 am–9:55 am
Teaching Mechanical Ventilation in the Writing Intensive Format: Can It Be Done? Should It Be Done?
Jennifer Keely MEd RRT-ACCS, Columbia MO
Regardless of whether a program is an associate's or baccalaureate level, they all have the same goal of producing graduates who are safe, effective respiratory care practitioners. Traditional teaching and assessment tools, which often utilize multiple-choice and short-answer format, do not require students to write reflectively about course content. This session will describe the rewards and pitfalls of transitioning a mechanical ventilation course to the writing intensive format, with an emphasis on the use of writing to learn assignments.
10:00 am–10:40 am
Tell Me What You Learned Today?
Linda Lair MS RRT RPFT, Columbia MO
This presentation will discuss the merits of reflective writing assignments as part of the students’ clinical education. The presenter will highlight the structure and goals of a reflective writing assignment as well as provide samples of said assignments and a grading rubric.
10:40 am–11:20 am
Exhibitor Break
11:20 am–12:00 pm
Performance Summary for the New Simulation Examination
Robert C Shaw Jr PhD RRT FAARC
Information from more than a year of examination administration will be summarized with the intent to reveal strong and weak performance areas.
12:05 pm–12:45 pm
Give Me Two Hours, and I'll Give You Sensitivity Training!
Crystal Dunlevy EdD RRT, Columbus OH
Respiratory therapy faculty would undoubtedly love to graduate students who are effective communicators with all patient groups, including the underserved and vulnerable. The reality is that many students have not had exposure to or experience with these populations, and there is no room in the curriculum to include sensitivity training. This presentation will outline a method for improving sensitivity and reducing implicit bias through two hours of interactive training.
12:45 pm–2:15 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:15 pm–2:55 pm
Tenure and Promotion in the University Setting - Are You Prepared?
Robert L Joyner Jr PhD RRT-ACCS FAARC, Salisbury MD
Increasingly, respiratory care educators are seeking employment at universities that have traditional promotion and tenure opportunities for their faculty. These opportunities can be difficult to navigate and the requirements are frequently foreign to respiratory care educators. This lecture will provide attendees important information about how to be successful at navigating this process and reduce the ever-present anxiety that comes with this career path.
3:00 pm–3:40 pm
Tell Me Something I Should Know. . . Faculty Development
Ellen A Becker PhD RRT-NPS FAARC, Chicago IL
Bill Galvin MSEd RRT CPFT AE-C, Gwynedd Valley PA
Lynda Goodfellow EdD RRT FAARC, Atlanta GA
Respiratory therapy program faculty are often very skilled educators and place a high priority on ensuring student success. However, program faculty need to also focus on their own development to ensure they are able to have successful careers in education. This presentation will focus on development of a successful academic portfolio, research program, and mentorship support system.
8:30 am–3:40 pm
Manager Track
8:30 am–9:10 am
Stop Focusing on Volume and Cost!
Cheryl A Hoerr MBA RRT FAARC, Rolla MO
We’ve been hearing it for years now: quality care is lower cost care. Why then do we continue to focus our efforts on maintaining volume and cutting costs, emphasizing productivity and cutting staff, and making purchasing decisions in large part on the basis of cost? Respiratory managers should be focusing on overuse of useless and ineffective care while streamlining department processes to eliminate or minimize waste. The manager for the future must learn to emphasize safety, quality, patient outcomes, and patient experiences in order to successfully position their department in the new health care environment.
9:15 am–9:55 am
Business Planning
Garry W Kauffman MPA RRT FAARC FACHE , Winston-Salem, NC
This presentation will provide the essential elements included in a business plan; a template for attendees to utilize to manage their projects/business plans; and a checklist that attendees can use to ensure that their business planning process results in a successful outcome. The template and checklist will be provided as attachments for registered attendees.
10:00 am–10:40 am
Who's Liable?
Laura Hartman BS RRT-NPS, St Petersburg FL
Anthony DeWitt JD RRT FAARC, Jefferson City MO
In an increasingly litigious society, medical providers and the institutions they work for are in a vulnerable state. If proper policies are not in place, and providers are not aware of their responsibilities, the consequences can bring harm to patients and jeopardize the practice of providers. As the scope of respiratory therapy has expanded, policies need to protect therapists. This lecture will help to identify potential shortcomings of policies, and how to amend them to ensure proper coverage for the institution.
10:40 am–11:20 am
Exhibitor Break
11:20 am–12:00 pm
Fostering Professional Volunteerism in the Respiratory Therapist
Sarah L Varekojis PhD RRT FAARC, Columbus OH
Many colleges and universities require students to complete community service as a graduation requirement. In addition, many professions and organizations rely on volunteers to accomplish at least part of their mission, and respiratory therapy is no different. Both the Baby Boomer generation and the Millennial generation value involvement and civic duty, and leaders in respiratory therapy can learn to foster professional volunteerism across the continuum from student to employee.
12:05 pm–12:45 pm
Sunrise, Sunset: Onboarding, Managing Up, and Managing Out
Anthony DeWitt JD RRT FAARC, Jefferson City MO
With the dramatic changes and challenges within the health care industry, what is seen as the most important element of success and failure is the ethics, behaviors, quality, and professionalism of the employees. This presentation will focus on how managers can make the best decisions to hire the "right" RTs; how to manage them appropriately and individually without losing the common expectations of the department and organization; and when necessary, how to best "manage out" the employee who can't fulfill the demands of the position.
12:45 pm–2:15 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:15 pm–3:40 pm
Making the Right Hire. . . And Keeping Them
2:15 pm–2:55 pm
Hiring to Fit Your Service Expectations
Charles Bangley BS RRT, Winterville NC
How do you customize your interviews to assure you have the right person? What specific skills or knowledge level are you looking for; and how do you test for these in an interview? This presentation will discuss these questions and encourage open dialogue and interaction during the session. This interactive session will leave employees with a hiring tool they can take back to their hospital and customize for their own use.
3:00 pm–3:40 pm
Retaining Staff Through an Integrated Performance Evaluation Tool
Charles Bangley BS RRT, Winterville NC
We all dread the annual performance evaluation process. For many staff members, it's a meaningless process that is nothing more than a rite of passage for their annual salary increase. But there is a beneficial purpose to performance appraisals if we're just willing to take the time to understand why. This session will review a performance evaluation system that was developed by respiratory care staff members and leaders. This process has now been accepted by other service lines in our institution and is tied to the mission, vision, and values of the organization. When combined with performance metrics, quality, safety, and operational goals, staff is better able to understand their impact with patients and the hospital as a whole…so much so that staff members actually look forward to their performance appraisal. Attendees will leave this lecture with a template and understanding of how to create a similar evaluation tool that is aligned with their own organization.
Monday, June 27
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7:30 am–8:20 am
General Session
7:30 am–8:20 am
Research for Newbies - Come On In, The Water’s Fine!
Cheryl Hoerr MBA RRT CPFT FAARC, Rolla MO
Research can be a scary thing when you have no experience with the process. We will discuss what transpired when we took the leap and developed a beginner’s research collaborative consisting of credentialed therapists working at a community hospital and respiratory therapy students just learning the research process. Challenges and successes of this joint venture will be shared from the manager and educator perspectives. Join us for the unveiling of process outcomes.
8:30 am–3:40 pm
Educator Track
8:30 am–9:10 am
Fostering Research Skills Across Degree Programs
Ellen A Becker PhD RRT-NPS FAARC, Chicago IL
Respiratory therapists need basic research skills in their daily clinical practice and require more skills as they advance up career ladders. This presentation recommends a framework for the appropriate research skills to teach in entry-level associate's and baccalaureate degree programs and advanced degree/graduate programs.
9:15 am–9:55 am
Use of Curriculum Mapping in Program Assessment and Evaluation
Pat Munzer DHSc RRT FAARC, Topeka KS
A successful tool that programs may use to evaluate the integration of the competencies and the curriculum as a whole is a curriculum map. Curriculum mapping is generally used to evaluate an existing curriculum or to create a new curriculum. Curriculum maps also provide programs with a tool to facilitate continuous curricular evaluation and identify potential areas for improvement.
10:00 am–10:40 am
Developing & Applying Rubrics to Improve Student Performance
Christine Hamilton DHSc RRT, Nashville TN
Rubrics give a roadmap to students on how to meet the instructor’s (and programmatic) expectations. By developing rubrics, standards of performance are delineated giving students a clear picture of how to succeed. This presentation will describe the steps in developing a detailed rubric and will invite participants to develop a sample rubric.
10:40 am–11:20 am
Exhibitor Break
11:20 am–12:00 pm
Evaluating Student Competencies - Lessons Learned from the Medical Profession
Allen Gustin Jr MD FCCP, Chicago IL
Calls by the public and policymakers for increased transparency and accountability as well as heightened consumerism have all influenced the shift to a competency-centered, outcomes-based approach to accreditation and the emphasis for accreditors to focus their standards on assessing the degree to which the professions are creating a skilled, competent, and globally competitive workforce. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began its general competency and outcome initiative in 1998. This initiative, called the Outcome Project, requires that U.S. graduate medical education programs foster resident physicians’ development of competencies in six domains and collect performance data that reliably and accurately depicts residents’ ability to care for patients and to work effectively in health care delivery systems. This presentation will describe the successes and challenges that medical education faced in implementing this reform and the lessons that can be learned by the respiratory care profession.
12:05 pm–12:45 pm
Developing a Plan of Action Based Upon the Therapist Multiple Choice Exam Results
Shane Keene DHSc MBA RRT-NPS CPFT RPSGT FAARC, Cincinnati OH
This presentation is designed to help faculty understand the NBRC school summary outcomes data and facilitate a working action plan to improve areas where deficiencies may exist.
12:45 pm–2:15 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:15 pm–2:55 pm
Education Section Membership Meeting
Ellen A Becker PhD RRT-NPS FAARC - Chair, AARC Education Section/Presiding
Updates on issues important to the section will be discussed, with interactive dialogue on how the section chair and the AARC can better serve the Education Section and its members. This is your opportunity to influence the profession and network with your peers. All Summer Forum attendees are invited to attend.
3:00 pm–3:40 pm
Teaching Acid-Base Interpretation: What Is the Best Approach?
Doug Pursley MEd RRT-ACCS FAARC, Springfield MO
Simplified approaches for teaching acid-base balance such as the "arrow method," the "tic-tac-toe" approach, or stepwise processes may not always result in a correct interpretation. This presentation will discuss common methods for teaching acid-base balance and offer an alternative, comprehensive approach that is physiologically-based resulting in greater accuracy.
8:30 am–3:40 pm
Manager Track
8:30 am–9:10 am
Overview of Disease Management
Timothy Myers MBA RRT-NPS FAARC, Irving TX
This presentation will identify the key components to a comprehensive disease management program and discuss the necessary skills of an effective disease manager working with patients that have chronic respiratory conditions.
9:15 am–9:55 am
How Much Does That Cost? Acquiring New RT Equipment
Judy Schloss BS RRT-NPS AE-C, Minneapolis MN
One of the biggest investments to make in an RT department is the proper training of employees and to equip them with the right tools to succeed in doing their job. As we move away from fee-for-service and volume-based measures towards accountable-care organizations and quality-based measures, we must also consider this in the purchase of new equipment in the respiratory care department. The speaker will discuss effectiveness, efficiency, and outcomes to show where the true cost savings can be attained in optimizing purchases.
10:00 am–10:40 am
From Good to Great: Motivating Staff to Achieve Department Goals
Shawna Strickland PhD RRT-NPS RRT-ACCS AE-C FAARC, Irving TX
Respiratory care departments are constructed of RTs with varying personalities. Motivating the entire staff to achieve the common organizational goal may be difficult if the RT manager is not in tune to the different needs of the staff. This presentation will discuss motivational theories in context with leadership theories to assist the RT manager in developing a strategy to motivate each RT on staff.
10:40 am–11:20 am
Exhibitor Break
11:20 am–12:45 pm
Shining the Light on Research At the Bedside
Cheryl A Hoerr MBA RRT FAARC, Rolla MO
Diane Oldfather MEd RRT, Rolla MO
One of the strategic goals of the AARC is to encourage Respiratory Therapists to engage in research. This means that research cannot be confined to universities and tertiary medical centers. Good research protocols can be developed and implemented in any sized hospital, RT department, or program of study. Health care is changing and becoming increasingly complex, which means that the old way of doing things just doesn’t cut it anymore. Change generates questions and finding the answers to those questions requires research. With the proper planning, managers can guide staff through the process of defining the right questions to ask, identifying the gaps, and developing a good research protocol to bridge those knowledge gaps. This workshop will provide a roadmap for respiratory managers who are interested in developing a research program within their department. We will provide you with a template to guide you through the start-up process of team member recruitment, research question development, the data-gathering process, data analysis, and reporting. When we are finished you will know where to start and when you have arrived.
12:45 pm–2:15 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:15 pm–3:40 pm
Leading the Way- Creating a Culture of Accountability
Rebecca Caputo , Weston FL
Bryan Leatherwood MHA RRT FACHE, Weston FL
In today's complex health care environment it is critical that caregivers at all levels of your organization are accountable to high standards of care and a positive patient experience. Please join us for this fast-paced, engaging workshop to explore how to create a culture of accountability where everyone promotes responsibility, ownership, and mutual accountability. This session will present a model of building accountability at every level, beginning with you. We will explore the three stages of an accountability cycle and why each component is critical to success. We will also examine the leader's role in creating this highly-accountable culture through clearly defined expectations and agreements. Most importantly, we will share a case study of how one leader took a disengaged department and created a highly engaged team resulting in amazing outcomes.
Tuesday, June 28
7:00 am–7:55 am
General Session
7:00 am–7:55 am
Agency Update
Frank Salvator Jr MBA RRT FAARC - AARC President
The leadership of the AARC, ARCF, CoARC, and the NBRC will join attendees to discuss the latest professional, research, accreditation, and credentialing issues facing respiratory care.
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8:00 am–1:30 pm
Educator Track
8:00 am–9:30 am
Jimmy A Young Memorial Lecture
Presented by the National Board for Respiratory Care
8:00 am–9:30 am
How Does the NCCA Affect My Ability to Educate, Hire, and Retain Therapists?
Robert C Shaw PhD RRT FAARC
The NBRC submits its credentialing programs for NCCA accreditation. The session will describe the origins of NCCA and the ongoing goal behind accreditation. Revised accreditation standards go into effect in 2016. Highlights from these standards will be discussed.
9:30 am–9:45 am
Break
9:45 am–10:25 am
Ten Things You Can Do with a Plexiglass Box and a Set of Pig Lungs
Doug Pursley MEd RRT-ACCS FAARC, Springfiled MO
Simulation modeling has the capacity to involve students in a more profound level of learning as opposed to just hearing a lecture and memorizing material for an exam. This presentation will show participants how to construct a plexiglass lung-thorax model and demonstrate ten learning activities ranging from teaching simple mechanics of breathing to measuring optimal PEEP guided by esophageal manometry.
10:30 am–11:10 am
Working Together To Ensure Consistent Student Evaluation
Sarah L Varekojis PhD RRT FAARC, Columbus OH
Ensuring consistent student evaluation by preceptors in clinical environments is an important concern for RC program faculty. Preceptor training programs can be used to improve inter-rater agreement by determining needed areas of improvement.
11:15 am–12:15 pm
Dr. Fred Helmholz Education Lecture Series
Presented by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care
11:15 am–12:15 pm
Meeting Thresholds and Maintaining an Excellent Respiratory Care Program
Gary White RRT RPFT FAARC, Spokane WA
The most common substantive change on applications submitted to the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) are changes in program director (15%) or director of clinical education (23%). Many of these key personnel are new to the position and new to the responsibilities required of the position. This presentation will describe the key responsibilities and roles of the program director and director of clinical education. Practical examples will be provided to assist those new to these positions in the maintenance of an excellent respiratory care program.
8:00 am–1:30 pm
Manager Track
8:00 am–8:30 am
Management Section Membership Meeting
Cheryl A Hoerr MBA RRT FAARC - Chair, AARC Management Section/Presiding
Updates on issues important to the section will be discussed, with interactive dialogue on how the section chair and the AARC can better serve the Management Section and its members. This is your opportunity to influence the profession and network with your peers. All Summer Forum attendees are invited to attend.
8:35 am–9:15 am
Integrating Millennials into Your Department or Classroom
Doug Laher MBA RRT FAARC, Irving TX
This lecture will discuss the characteristics of today's millennials...what makes them tick, what they want out of their career, their colleagues and their employer. Whether it's in the classroom or the break room, millennials will be forced to integrate with Gen X and Baby Boomers. How do you do this and how can you be successful? You'll have to attend this TED Talk-style of presentation to find out. No slides will be used for this lecture…the lecturer will be "walking a tight rope without a net"!
9:15 am–9:30 am
Break
9:30 am–10:10 am
Using an Automated Volume-Based Staffing Protocol to Guide Staffing Decisions
Dave Crotwell RRT-NPS FAARC, Seattle WA
This lecture will explain and discuss how volume based staffing protocols can help department leaders make well informed RT staffing decisions for their hospital.
10:15 am–10:55 am
A Transformational Journey to Survival in a Value-Based Health Care System
Bob Miller BS RRT, Tampa FL
The presentation will entail details of a new department leader’s 15 month inspirational journey to revitalizing, re-tooling, and rebuilding a respiratory department in a 500-bed acute-care tertiary facility that was in great need of direction and leadership. Implementation of therapist driven protocols, investments in advanced technologies to provide efficient & effective therapies despite corporate supply chain restraints, expansion of the scope of clinical practice to include higher level invasive procedures, staffing replenishments with additions of over 20 new FTE positions to facilitate a new focus on an optimal disease management, patient-centric care model.
11:00 am–11:40 am
Bedside to Bench to Bedside: Using Quality Improvement Bench Research to Improve Your Department's Practice
Dave Crotwell RRT-NPS FAARC, Seattle WA
This lecture will share experience related to using quality improvement bench research as a standard practice to improve the quality of patient care in your institution.
11:45 am–12:25 pm
Creating a Simulation Lab on a Shoestring Budget
Judy Schloss BS RRT-NPS AE-C, Minneapolis MN
Simulation is one of the best methods to train staff or check for competence on new procedures/ equipment without causing harm to an actual patient. But how many RT departments have unlimited funds to setup a simulation lab? In this lecture the speaker will walk you through the setup of a very basic sim lab without spending a fortune. She will describe less expensive alternatives to commercially available products.
12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Closing Ceremony: Closing the Gap
Anthony DeWitt JD RRT FAARC, Jefferson City MO
This is a story of three people: Lisa, Beckie, and Sandy. Lisa is a new graduate therapist, Beckie is her program director. Sandy is the manager at the hospital where Lisa has been hired. Lisa has gone to school for two years and trained at six different hospitals. She has demonstrated her proficiency as a therapist and has obtained her license. She knows "the right way" to practice. Beckie has spent the last two years teaching Lisa "the right way" to practice in an ideal environment. No one has better clinical knowledge that Beckie. Sandy, on the other hand, is a manager who is fighting to keep resources and working hard to demonstrate clinical relevance that is sometimes difficult to show to "bean counters." He needs a therapist who understands the realities at the bedside and the challenges the department faces in a real-world environment. The purpose of this presentation is to help identify methods of behaviors that are useful in "closing the gap" between the halls of academe and the halls of the second floor ICU. What can program directors be doing to better serve their managers. What can managers do to help program directors see the reality they face in the hospital. How can both program directors and managers better prepare students for the challenging work that is Respiratory Care.