djwillson3

Great question and responses by many. I have been an RRT here in AZ for almost 20 years and am currently starting 1st block of nursing school. Being an RT has been great I have learned a tremendous amount in my time and the pay is very comparable (at least in AZ) to nursing. The dead end portion of being an RRT is true, every time there was a chance to move the practice further and gain additional skills I did and for the last 8 years I have been a Vascular Access Specialist (PIV's PICC's, Arterial Lines, Central lines, and Dialysis catheters)and now find myself nowhere to go unless I want to go back to school and do a RRT to ultrasound tech transition. I find myself now in Trauma in ICU being more close to the nurses as far as specialty or critical skills conversations are concerned. In my personal opinion you cant really go wrong with either choice but whatever you do pick your career with devotion and hit it with all you got. There will always be the need for skilled RT's and always a need for skilled RN's. Good luck

Hi itskamani and Mfrancis02, I will be joining you in the fall 2017 accelerated program. The pre class reading will be given at orientation on the 22nd aside from that only the lab values are suggested to have memorized early in the semester not by day one. see you at orientation and good luck.