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  1. Hi,
  2. I'm Jesse Sterling
  3. and I am a sophomore here at the Texas Southern University. I am 19 years old.
  4. Did you know that your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung?
  5. Well,
  6. you don't have to be a respiratory therapist to know that,
  7. but that is what I am majoring in.
  8. What is respiratory therapy? You may ask
  9. it.
  10. Respiratory therapy is a form of therapy that mainly focus
  11. on the pulmonary slash respiratory system of a person.
  12. The therapist helps with breathing by giving the patients oxygen,
  13. managing the vila
  14. ventilators and administering drugs to the lungs.
  15. It's so much more than
  16. just giving breathing treatments
  17. to patients. They do so much more. It's, it's way, it's a way bigger job than that.
  18. They are significant to society,
  19. especially those with breathing issues because they
  20. can improve the pulmonary function and ease the
  21. pain of those in need so that people can continue on with their everyday lives.
  22. So let's say,
  23. let's say like if somebody you know
  24. that's very, very important to you is going through respiratory issues,
  25. you can bring them to us or future me and I can help ease the pain.
  26. So we are very, very, very important.
  27. We are very important,
  28. defining revel,
  29. revel,
  30. relevance and drawbacks.
  31. I had an honor of interviewing Kimberly mckinley,
  32. a registered respiratory therapist at the Tulane
  33. Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans.
  34. Some of the things she told me
  35. was that
  36. how, how they were relevant was that
  37. we can save well.
  38. They, I'm saying we, because I'm speaking it into existence,
  39. but they save babies who lungs are not fully developed.
  40. Um They can help with the cardiopulmonary
  41. disorders.
  42. And
  43. um we,
  44. we feel better at the end of the day knowing we
  45. helped save a life and the pay is pretty great.
  46. But some of the drawbacks
  47. that she mentioned
  48. was that it's very, very time consuming.
  49. She told me that
  50. she works like five days out the week and even when she's not at work,
  51. she's still working, doing paperwork.
  52. Um
  53. And she also told me about the emotions like
  54. you can never get too attached to a patient. It's great to connect with them
  55. on the level, but let's say something does happen and they do
  56. um go to the upper room,
  57. you know, you have to still keep your,
  58. keep your composure
  59. because
  60. at the end of the day, it's your job.
  61. So some of these courses
  62. at Texas Southern
  63. consist of
  64. the
  65. a degree plan.
  66. This degree plan shows one year in
  67. a, in a semester of prerequisite courses, meaning
  68. my freshman year, it was all prerequisite courses and this second semester,
  69. this the first semester of the second year, this prerequisite courses.
  70. So next semester I'll be starting my,
  71. um,
  72. the RT program
  73. after that two years in the semester, the rest of the program has to be,
  74. has to be completed in order to be certified in the field.
  75. Steps that are needed steps that are
  76. needed to appeal to the identifier disadvantages,
  77. be prepared for what may come in a day.
  78. Like I said,
  79. you may lose a patient but you always have to keep your composure.
  80. I mean, it's ok to cry. Just don't let the family of the patient see you
  81. in that sort, seek mentor advice.
  82. The lady that I interviewed um Kimberly mckinley, she's been like a great mentor.
  83. She's actually the reason why
  84. I decided to go in the respiratory field. She encouraged me a lot.
  85. So I have her number on speed down
  86. and last but not least, don't be afraid of the change.
  87. Things are going to change and happen every day.
  88. You just have to adapt to it and learn to grow with it.
  89. These are some of the
  90. degree plan
  91. classes
  92. courses here at the Texas Southern University,
  93. historical Social and our political foundations.
  94. Respiratory therapists has contribute to larger
  95. society by being on the front lines
  96. using strict safety measures and passionate
  97. dedication to treat COVID-19 patients.
  98. Y'all know that
  99. um during COVID time,
  100. we ran out of health care workers, they ran out of hospital beds all around.
  101. We just was not prepared for it whatsoever. And so at that time,
  102. we needed respiratory therapist
  103. more than we needed.
  104. I would say anybody kind of in the medical field, what do we needed the nurses,
  105. what do we need the doctors?
  106. Because
  107. I mean, we specialize in it, you know, I mean, we don't, we can't tell where,
  108. where the disease is coming from,
  109. but we can help treat the disease and we can
  110. help um prevent it kind of prevent it from happening.
  111. You know,
  112. some contributions to society.
  113. Respiratory care might logically hope to make in the future would be
  114. to have more ventilators throughout the hospital because as y'all know,
  115. like I was saying throughout COVID-19,
  116. um we ran out of supplies and so
  117. I feel like we're gradually getting it.
  118. Hopefully nothing else breaks out like that again. But
  119. that'll be a way that they can, they can um commit to society.
  120. Well,
  121. I love
  122. being an RT.
  123. Um
  124. I love being an RT major because
  125. we can help, like we can help a lot of people
  126. breathe better
  127. and
  128. it's just all around a great field to be in.
  129. You always have a job always, especially with the pandemic that happen.
  130. You always have a job,
  131. you'll,
  132. the pay is great and you could just feel better by helping people.
  133. I love to help, help, help. I love to help.
  134. Thank you.