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What's the maximum number of times for a person to attempt an FVC? My patient has COPD and dreads these tests. How can I make it a better experience? What's the best body position for pulmonary function testing? How can I tell if the patient blew out hard enough on his spirometry test? Find the answers to these and many more questions you may have as you administer pulmonary function tests. This Workbook is designed to work alongside its companion manual, Airtight Pulmonary Function Tests. It is filled with questions and answers which can be used as a teaching tool, or to simply improve your coaching skills by enhancing your knowledge of pulmonary function testing. Rosemary McWilliams, BAS, RRT, CPFT, saw a need for an improvement in the quality of pulmonary function tests and started by improving her own coaching skills, as learned from real life experiences. The knowledge she obtained from observation, trying various coaching techniques, and through teaching others, was invaluable to reduce frustration, improve the quality of her tests, and make her clients happier. Over the years, she accumulated tips and tricks which resulted in the manual, Airtight Pulmonary Function Tests and its companion Workbook. Within its pages is information that is not generally taught in regular textbooks, but an essential for those who administer spirometries and pulmonary function tests in hospitals, physician offices, or the corporate setting.

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Rosemary (R.K.) McWilliams, BAS, RRT, CPFT, has worked in the field of respiratory care for thirty-five years. During this time, she managed a Pulmonary Function Lab at a major hospital, worked for a pulmonologist and eight cardiologists administering pulmonary function tests. She graduated, with honors, from Wayland Baptist University with a B.A.S. degree. She has recently branched out into writing fiction with her popular Blood Moon novels.

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