You have read your assignments on employee engagement and you hypothetically have just completed your first month of clinical training on your new RT job.  Your place of employment is a very large  well known well established medical center .  A month has pasted and you still have not met the Department director and you have definitely noted that most of the therapists do not fit the criteria of engaged employees.  Please provide a creative discussion on what you would like to do, or what you might propose to management, or a group of the RTs  to move the department more towards a team of engaged Respiratory Therapist.

This week, we are reading about the public health policy process and the organization of the American Healthcare system. Please respond to one of the following prompts:

Did the readings clarify anything in particular for you? In what ways can you apply what you read this week to your actual work? Do you see the “paradox” of excess and deprivation” in your practice?

What are your thoughts on Health at Every Size and how does it differ from the way we normally approach obesity? How do you imagine this approach my affect our healthcare system and overall public health?