Entry-Level MSRC - Respiratory Care

Degree Plan & Curriculum

The Department of Respiratory Care offers the Master of Science in Respiratory Care (MSRC) degree.

Clinical education in Respiratory Care involves the application of skills acquired in the classroom and laboratory settings to actual patients in a clinical setting. Students must demonstrate cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains and apply it to patient assessment, clinical reasoning, problem-solving, synthesizing care plans, and troubleshooting equipment.

Curriculum

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The MSRC curriculum is an intensive 94 credit hours over 2 years that includes 30 credit hours of clinical experience. The final semester culminates the educational experience with a capstone project, a clinical internship, and an intensive board exam review.

Prerequisites for the program include having a baccalaureate degree and 8 hours of anatomy, 4 hours of chemistry, 4 hours of physics, and 3 hours of statistics.

Total: 94 Credits

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Semester	Course	Title	Credits
Fall I	RESC 5103	Respiratory Therapeutics Lab	1
Fall I	RESC 5301	Pharmacology	3
Fall I	RESC 5303	Introduction to Respiratory Care	3
Fall I	RESC 5401	Disease Management I	4
Fall I	RESC 5501	Cardiopulmonary & Renal Physiology	5
Total: 16
Spring I	RESC 5101	Instrumentation Lab	1
Spring I	RESC 5201	Intro to Research	2
Spring I	RESC 5402	Neonatal-Pediatric Respiratory Care	4
Spring I	RESC 5404	Mechanical Ventilation I	4
Spring I	RESC 5502	Physiologic Monitoring & Instrumentation	5
Total: 16
Summer I	RESC 5102	Graphics Interpretation Lab	1
Summer I	RESC 5302	Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics I	3
Summer I	RESC 5405	Mechanical Ventilation II	4
Summer I	RESC 5601	Clinical Practice I	6
Total: 14
Fall II	MSHP 5336	Qualitative Research	3
Fall II	MSHP 5310	Human Resource & Leadership	3
Fall II	RESC 6301	Evidence Based Practice	3
Fall II	RESC 6801	Clinical Practice II	8
Total: 17
Spring II	RESC 6202	Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics II	2
Spring II	RESC 6203	Capstone Experience	2
Spring II	RESC 6401	Disease Management II	4
Spring II	RESC 6802	Clinical Practice III	8
Total: 16
Summer II	MSHP 5301	Medical Ethics	3
Summer II	RESC 6201	Educational Methods	2
Summer II	RESC 6208	NBRC Board Review	2
Summer II	RESC 6803	Clinical Internship	8
Total: 15

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