CRT®/RRT® Comprehensive Course Overview

Program Materials

At the review, each participant will receive everything necessary to prepare for successful completion of the examinations.

STUDY GUIDE

• Always up-to-date for the current exam content.
• Complete review outlines which follow the lectures.
• Pre-Test to determine your starting level of comprehension.
• Appendices include Pathology, Pharmacology, Lab Values, and Formulas.
• Study Schedule/Test-taking Skills.

WORKBOOK

• Hundreds of questions, exercises and practice problems to reinforce your learning
• "Test your knowledge" sample exam questions and answers to build your test-taking skills
• Answers provided for selected problems / calculations

TRAINING PROBLEMS

• Clinical Judgment Workshop app with 7 Training Problems + NEW RTE Pre-Test / Post-Test.
• Scoring and Step-by-Step Analysis of each problem.
• Disease List & Pathology Overview.
• Glossary of Diagnostic Terms & Procedures, Normal Values, Ventilator Guidelines, and Test-Taking Skills.

ONLINE PRACTICE MATERIALS

• Two full-length Online RTE Practice Exams: Ensure you understand the examination content and that your test-taking skills are sharp.
• 3 tokens for additional online practice. Choose the practice you want from our extensive bank of Breadth of Knowledge or Depth of Clinical Judgment Question Modules with detailed audio explanations. Click Here to learn more about our Online Exam Practice.

Program Agenda

Day 1

Time	Topic
8:00 - 8:30	Registration & Introduction
8:30 - 9:00	Pre-Test
9:00 - 10:30	Patient Assessment - 1
10:30 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 12:00	Patient Assessment - 2
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (not included)
1:00 - 2:30	Patient Assessment - 3
2:30 - 2:40	Break
2:40 - 4:00	Airway Care
4:00 - 4:10	Break
4:10 - 5:30	Therapeutic Procedures

Day 2

Time	Topic
8:00 - 9:15	Pulmonary Diagnostic Testing - 1
9:15 - 9:25	Break
9:25 - 10:25	Pulmonary Diagnostic Testing - 2
10:25 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 12:00	Mechanical Ventilation - 1
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (not included)
1:00 - 2:30	Mechanical Ventilation - 2
2:30 - 2:40	Break
2:40 - 3:40	Special Procedures
3:40 - 3:50	Break
3:50 - 4:50	General Patient Care
4:50 - 5:30	Test Preparation & Strategies

Day 3

Time	Topic
8:00 - 8:30	Practice Pre-Test
8:30 - 9:00	Intro to Depth of Clinical Judgment Questions / RTE Exam Overview
9:00 - 9:10	Training Problem #1
9:10 - 10:00	Clinical Judgment Question Structure / Kettering Clinical Reasoning Ladder / Decision Making Process / Test-Taking Answer Strategy
10:00 - 10:10	Training Problem #2
10:10 - 10:30	Training Problem #2 Analysis/Discussion
10:30 - 10:40	Training Problem #3
10:40 - 11:00	Training Problem #3 Analysis/Discussion
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:15	RTE Pre-Test Review/Analysis/Discussion (13 Questions)
12:15 - 12:45	Practice Post-Test
12:45 - 1:30	Lunch Break (45 Minutes)
1:30 - 2:30	RTE Post-Test Review/Analysis/Discussion
2:30 - 3:00	Examination Content and How to Study
3:00 - 3:30	Pathology
3:30 - 4:00	Normal Values & Ventilator Guidelines / Glossary
4:00 - 4:30	Test-Taking Skills

* Times are subject to change depending on location or whether the seminar is conducted online.
To accommodate all time zones, the webinar version of this course is often 4 days: 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM Eastern time in order to cover the same material.