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Respiratory Care Week is a week set to honor and recognize
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s. Respiratory Care Week is celebrated internationally but most notably in
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. Respiratory Care Week is usually the last full week of October.
Respiratory Care A respiratory therapist is a specialized healthcare practitioner trained in critical care and cardio-pulmonary medicine in order to work therapeutically with people who have acute critical conditions, cardiac and pulmonary disease. Respirator ...
August 1997 Volume 42, Number 8 pg. 748—817 United States President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first week dedicated to honoring respiratory therapists in 1982. Originally November 7 through November 13, 1982United States President Ronald Reagan — Proclamation 5095 — National Respiratory Therapy Week, 1983, September 15, 1983Ronald Reagan: "Proclamation 4997 - National Respiratory Therapy Week," November 10, 1982. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=41974.


Previous dates

* 1982: November 7 — November 13 * 1983: September 15 — October 1 * 2011: October 23 — October 29 last full week of October (Sunday through Saturday)


See also

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International Nurses Day International Nurses Day (IND) is an international day observed around the world on 12 May (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society. Background The International ...


References

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