The Kansas Respiratory Care Society
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The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts sent out the letters last week to those who have been randomly selected to participate in this year’s CEU audit. Please check your mail and thoroughly review it to see if you have an envelope from the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts.
The audit requests copies of certificates for a minimum of 12 hours continuing education obtained from April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012. If you are selected to participate in the audit, you must provide the CEUs no later than Friday, June 15th. Failure to meet this date will result in a fine and further failure to provide the proof will result in suspension of your license.
Rachel Anno is the person handling the audit. If you have questions specific to the audit, you can contact her at 785-296-1386 or at ranno@ksbha.ks.gov.
Please make sure your certificates are already approved for Respiratory Care CEUs. The certificates will not be accepted unless they are approved for Respiratory Care CEUs. There are several different ways to tell if they are already RT approved.
- 1. Certificates state that they are approved for CRCE’s by the American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC) in Irving, Texas.
- 2. Certificates have my signature on them with the Kansas Respiratory Care Society (KRCS) logo.
- 3. Certificates have been approved by a hospital providership with the following statement on them….”The _________(provider name) CEU Evaluator has approved this program for ___hours of Respiratory Continuing Education on behalf of the Kansas Respiratory Care Society, a chapter society of the AARC. Providership # KRCS____.
If you have any questions about your certificates or if you need to have CEUs approved, please contact me.
Mel
Western Kansas Respiratory Care Seminar
September 20-21, 2012
Dodge House Hotel
Dodge City, Kansas
Hello KRCS Members,
Hotels in Dodge City are running at full capacity due to wind and oil projects in the area. As a result, the KRCS is not able to block rooms for the Western Kansas Seminar. The Dodge House Hotel encourages you to make your room reservation as soon as possible. It is better to book a room and cancel it than to need a room and not have one available. For room reservations, call 620-225-9900. Mention you are with the KRCS to get the discounted rate. Hope to see you in Dodge City for the Western Kansas Seminar, September 20-21, 2012.
Suzanne Bollig
KRCS President
The Kansas Respiratory Care Society is a volunteer organization that is an affiliate of the American Association for Respiratory Care.
We do not have or maintain a physical building/office or have someone to answer the phone 24 hours a day.
Our official mailing address is:
Kansas Respiratory Care Society
12300 W. 34th Ct. So.
Wichita, KS 67227
If you need to get a hold of a board member you can visit the Board Page
and email or call any board member at their posted contacts
You can reach our webmaster by email. This email address is checked frequently.
Adopt-A-Company
AARC is partnering with DRIVE4COPD for a Year 2 campaign that will help shape the health of Americans
A project called Adopt-a-Company will bring respiratory therapists in contact with local businesses to help them understand how COPD affects their work force and what they can do to make a difference.
Begin now by identifying a company in your local area. You adopt them and give them health information, schedule an on-site screening this fall, and provide them with important information that will help bring a focus on COPD to their wellness programs and health risk assessments
Visit the AARC website to find out more
Join the DRIVE4COPD campaign and make a difference
The26th Annual Western Kansas Seminar
Dodge City, KS
September 20-21, 2012
The 36th Annual
State Meeting
Wichita, KS
April 10 - 12, 2013
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Refining Time Standards
Letter From Bill Dubbs "Refining Time Standards
It was good to see many of you in Vail recently. While there I updated the House of Delegates on several important items. One of the most important is the update of the AARC Uniform Reporting Manual which is presently in process and will conclude in late 2011 or early 2012. In light of the intensifying use of industry consultants hired to improve profitability, the availability of productivity tools that accurately measure workload intensity to managers is vital. These tools use time standards based on relative value units and can accurately determine appropriate staffing levels, assist in budgeting and serve as the foundation of benchmarking. The AARC needs the assistance of the state societies to help make sure the time standards reported in the 2010 AARC Uniform Reporting Manual are rock solid and unassailable. This can happen if managers of respiratory care services have developed solid time standards and contribute that information via the surveys that will be conducted this fall.
Free AARC Resources for Developing or Refining Time Standards
In anticipation of the surveys to come, now is the time for managers to review or develop time standards for services. To assist them the AARC is providing a new resource center on its website. This Productivity and Time Standards Resources center contains 3 concise documents:
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"Productivity Systems-The Importance of Accurate Time Standards"- This document explains the commonly used productivity systems and metrics used to support staffing decisions. It explains why metrics used commonly by consultants cannot accurately define staffing levels required for respiratory therapy services and provides rationale for a system based on relative value units.
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"Developing Time Standards-Collecting Data"- This document provides a step-by step approach to gathering the data required to develop time standards. It also contains discussion on the importance of getting buy in from administration in development and adoption of time standards.
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"Statistical Methodology For Developing Time Standards" This reference document provides basic statistical information to assist in developing valid time standards from the collected data.
These resources will hopefully encourage managers who currently have time standards to selectively evaluate the need for updating them. We also suspect that since we have not previously asked the managers of non-invasive cardiology, sleep laboratory services, hyperbaric medicine and pulmonary rehabilitation services to report time standards they may have not yet developed them and will find these resources useful. You may download these documents at: http://www.aarc.org/resources/standards_development/
Please Share These Resources
Please use all communication channels available within your state to make your colleagues responsible for hospital inpatient services, non-invasive cardiology, sleep, pulmonary function testing and blood gas laboratories, wound care and HBO centers, and pulmonary rehabilitation services aware of the availability of these free resources.
Please consider using your state society website, any internet networking communities, local communities of special interest to managers within your state. We want to get this information to all managers regardless of their AARC membership status. You will find a Productivity and Time Standards Button for your website at http://www.aarc.org/affiliate_web_design/ Please help us by seeing that this button appears on your state society website homepage as soon as possible.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Bill Dubbs dubbs@aarc.org
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Mission Statement
The Kansas Respiratory Care Society is formed to:
Educate, advocate, and promote the profession and practice of Respiratory Care
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