Professional Development Specialist-RRT

The Professional Development Specialist (PDS) is a self-directed, professional registered Respiratory Therapist with advanced knowledge and expertise specific to his/her clinical area.  The PDS serves as an educator, change agent, researcher, servant leader role model and mentor.  The PDS role is developed in relationship to responsibilities and specialty population of practice.  The PDS will be unit/department based and may have additional responsibilities within the department.

Follows Standards of Practice

Standard 1: Assessment 

• The respiratory care (RC) professional development specialist collects pertinent data and information relative to individual, unit, organization, and system performance. 

   

Standard 2: Diagnosis

• The RC professional development specialist analyzes assessment data to determine actual or potential practice gaps and their etiology and other problems, issues or needs. 

 

Standard 3: Outcomes Identification

The RC professional development specialist identifies desired outcomes for a plan tailored to an individual unit, department, organization, system or population.

 

Standard 4: Planning

• The RC professional development specialist establishes a collaborative plan encompassing strategies to achieve expected outcomes.

 

Standard 5: Implementation

• The RC professional development specialist implements the identified plan.

 

Standard 5a: Coordination The RC professional development specialist coordinates implementation of the plan and associated processes

Standard 5b: Health Teaching and Health promotion 

The RC professional development specialist employs strategies to teach and promote wellness

Standard 6: Evaluation

• The RC professional development specialist evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.

 

Standard 7: Ethics

• The RC professional development specialist integrates ethics in all aspects of practice

Standard 8:  Advocacy

• The RC professional development specialist demonstrates advocacy in all roles and settings.

 

Standard 9:  Respectful and Equitable Practice

• The RC professional development specialist practices with cultural humility and inclusiveness.

 

Standard 10: Communication

• The RC professional development specialist communicates effectively in all areas of professional practice.

 

Standard 11: Collaboration

• The RC professional development specialist collaborates with colleagues, academic partners, and other key stakeholders.

 

Standard 12:  Leadership

• The RC professional development specialist leads within the interprofessional practice and learning environments and the profession.

 

Standard 13: Education

• The RC professional development specialist seeks knowledge and competence that reflects respiratory care practice and promotes futuristic thinking. 

 

Standard 14: Scholarly Inquiry

• The RC professional development specialist integrates scholarship, evidence, and research findings into practice.

 

Standard 15: Quality of practice

• The RC professional development specialist contributes to quality of respiratory care, healthcare.

 

Standard 16: Professional Practice Evaluation

• The RC professional development specialist evaluates one’s own and others’ respiratory care practice. 

 

Standard 17: Resource Stewardship

• The RC professional development specialist uses appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based initiatives that are safe, effective, financially responsible, and used judiciously. 

 

Standard 18: Environmental Health 

• The RC professional development specialist practi