The College provides first-rate education through its faculty members mainly composed of licensed physicians who have specialized in their respective fields of expertise, registered respiratory therapists with master’s degrees or units that have immersed them in teaching excellence and ethical patient care. The College alumni’s outstanding achievements are a lasting testament to what the college has to offer, exemplifying the Fatimanian spirit of truth and compassion.
With its modern facilities, equipment, and updated curriculum, the program provides top-notch training to develop unrivaled skill and performance. Furthermore, through its industry partnerships and affiliations with government and private hospitals, specialty clinics, and community-based centers, it offers training programs that expose students to a variety of clinical settings, preparing them for a more humanistic, holistic, inclusive, and diversity-oriented practice.
Today, students in the Respiratory Therapy program benefit from OLFU’s world-class learning platforms and resources, which are paired with state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories – all delivered by a capable teaching faculty via a masterful mix of learning modalities: online, distance, or face-to-face learning when health conditions permit.
Being in the forefront of educational reforms and flexible learning options, OLFU is one of a few select schools to be granted the Certificate of Authority by the Commission of Higher Education (CHEd), allowing it to conduct limited face-to-face classes in the midst of the COVID-10 pandemic; a testament to the university’s established and effective community safety protocols.
The Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy program is designed to prepare graduates with critical and analytical thinking abilities as well as a greater understanding of pulmonary care.
Students will get an intensive foundation through a comprehensive curriculum that will enable them to examine, evaluate, treat, care for, and educate patients with cardiopulmonary and respiratory diseases.
The practice includes:
Administration of drugs by inhalation
Mechanical ventilator calibration, hooking, and management
Maintenance of airways
Assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Performing diagnostic procedures
Function test and blood gas extraction and analysis
Respiratory Therapy Alums are Top 5 and Top 7 in Feb2022 Licensure Exam The month of February kept its promise of endowing the season with pure devotion. For the program, Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy in the College of Physical Therapy of Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU-CPT-BSRT), it came in the form of a “sweet surprise” when the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) named two OLFU Respiratory Therapy graduates as having snagged two slots among the Topnotchers in the February 2022 installment of the Respiratory Therapist Licensure Exam. PRC officially announced OLFU’s Stephen Jhonn B. Padon as the Top 5, and Shaira S. Abdurajak as Top 7. Padon scored 85.75% while Abdurajak…
BS Respiratory Therapy Students bag Best Paper Award in RT Practitioners… "A breath of fresh, envigorating air" describes the coup of six students of the program, Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy (BSRT)- Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU). They snapped up the Best Paper (Student Category) plum in the 18th Association of Respiratory Care Practitioners of the Philippines, Inc. (ARCPP) General Assembly and Annual Conference conducted last July 21–22, 2022. Ruth Ayanna Lopez, as primary investigator of OLFU's winning BSRT team, presented the winning piece entitled “Will Over Matter: The Trait Emotional Intelligence and Smoking Abstinence Expectancies of Young Adult Smokers in Caloocan City” during the final round of the…
