Are you ready to make the shift from working for an agency or freelance and start your own respiratory staffing agency?  Or perhaps you are a staffing entrepreneur looking to get into the medical staffing industry and maybe, you are an existing medical staffing agency and may want to move into the respiratory staffing industry

Whatever your reason is to start your own agency, the tremendous opportunity for staffing entrepreneurs is amazing. But, let’s look at what exactly is a respiratory therapist and what does a respiratory therapist do.  

A respiratory therapist (RT) is a certified medical professional who specializes in providing healthcare for your lungs. They have advanced knowledge of high-tech equipment, such as mechanical ventilators. RTs work alongside doctors and nurses. They practice in many medical facilities, including emergency rooms, maternity wards, and therapy offices. Some RTs care for people in their own homes.

Respiratory therapists help improve outcomes for people with asthma, pneumonia, emphysema, lung trauma, and other diagnoses. RTs can assess your breathing, recommend exercises, and monitor your progress.

How many types of respiratory therapists are there in the industry?

There are several main types of respiratory therapy. An RT may specialize in one or more of these types.

Emergency respiratory therapy

This kind of respiratory therapy happens in a hospital. RTs provide assistance with emergency room cases and help people recover from heart surgery or lung failure. Some RTs assist doctors during complicated surgeries. They also treat pneumonia. A big part of emergency respiratory therapy involves ventilators. RTs manage or initiate life support for those who need it.

Adult respiratory therapy

Adult respiratory therapy takes place in a hospital, outpatient, or home setting. An RT may assist with routine care for the maintenance of chronic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. Adult respiratory therapy often involves the treatment of emphysema. RTs are sometimes in charge of programs that help adults quit smoking.

Pulmonary rehabilitation helps the lungs regain more breathing capacity after a surgery or traumatic event. This kind of therapy may be provided outside of the hospital by an RT. They also work in sleep labs to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea.

Pediatric respiratory therapy

Pediatric RTs focus on newborn and childhood cardiopulmonary issues. Sometimes they work in a hospital, where they care for patients in inpatient units including babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. Some pediatric RTs offer outpatient care for children and adolescents with asthma.

Hospitals frequently have pediatric emergency transport teams that take newborns or children to different facilities by ambulance or helicopter. The teams are generally made up of a nurse and an RT.

Geriatric respiratory therapy

As we age, so do our lungs. Sometimes respiratory therapy can help increase breathing efficiency for older people. Respiratory tract infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and bronchial pneumonia are diseases that a person over the age of 65 is likely to encounter. Geriatric respiratory therapy happens at a hospital, an outpatient facility, or a person’s home.

The opportunity to expand or start your own staffing agency is a tremendous ambitious and easily duable endeavor. 

This is meant for the kind of entrepreneurs who have, first of all, the relentless desire to earn more money in a single year than most of his/her entrepreneur friends will earn in their entire lifetime.

Or for those of you who question what is a solopreneur, those that deal with one business and one business only, this may also be for you.

It is meant for the kind of entrepreneur, secondly, who has enough faith in himself/herself to believe, today, that tomorrow he/she may actually be able to take home $175,000 – 500,000 per year – once he/she has been shown the techniques of making this kind of money.

And finally, it is meant only for the entrepreneur who are passionate about solving real-world solutions and starting your own medical staffing agency.