Nolan Bybee

Michael Davis

Deryl Gulliford

Anita Harris

Ron Bacon

• Nolan Bybee warns his community about the dangers e-cigarettes pose to children in this article and video on the CBS-TV website out of Idaho. “The CDC has reported that sometimes kids will break those or get their hands on them and they will touch them and therefore that nicotine is either ingested or transferred to the skin causing them to get sick,” he was quoted as saying.

• Judy Harrell is noted for bringing a Respiratory Care Week proclamation before her local city commission in this article in the Dothan, AL, Eagle.
  

• Michael Davis, who went to Liberia last summer on a medical mission, tells a local reporter he would voluntarily isolate himself for 21 days after returning from the Ebola-stricken nation again in this article and video on the NBC-TV website out of Virginia. (For more on Michael’s work in Liberia, read this article on our Ebola page.)

• Deryl Gulliford’s RT program just received a $15,000 grant from Hill-Rom to purchase a MetaNebSystem and he explains how the grant will help prepare his students in this article in the Enid, OK, News. “Whatever the technology is in the industry, we have got to keep up with that here so our students are ready when they step into jobs,” he was quoted as saying.

• Anita Harris’ breast cancer diagnosis led her to convince her boss at a local home medical equipment supply company to open a business within the store catering to cancer patients. “The Pink Tree” opened last April, reports this article in the Odessa, TX, American.

• Catie Madden’s RC Week activities are covered in this article in the Estes Park, CO, Trail Gazette, along with lots of great information about the profession and the diseases we treat.

• Lisa Smith shares some information about her staff in this article honoring RC Week in the Du Quoin, IL, Evening Call. “Our respiratory therapists address the needs of patients from breathing treatments to resuscitation and ventilation of patients,” she was quoted as saying.

• RT student Cassie Hamlin helped screen patients for lung disease at a recent senior health fair in her community, and the event was covered in this article in the Missoula, MT, Missoulian.

• Ron Bacon writes about his experiences as a neonatal respiratory therapist in this article on the Warrick Publishing website out of Indiana. Now a state senator, he says those experiences have made him a supporter of the right to life movement.

• Molly Schaefer answers a reader’s question about preventing pneumonia in this column in the Mason City, IA, News Tribune.