CRTO Conducts a Comprehensive Scope of Practice Review

2011

• The Canadian Thoracic Society Guidelines on Home Mechanical Ventilation is released.
• The CRTO sees a change in leadership with Christine Robinson retiring and current Registrar & CEO Kevin Taylor taking over.
• The CRTO also conducts a comprehensive Scope of Practice Review in May 2011.
• The CRTO participates in national labour mobility and international applicant projects as a member of the National Alliance of Respiratory Therapy Regulatory Bodies (NARTRB).
• There are 2,974 registered Members with the CRTO (2,126 female and 848 male).

A massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan causes a devastating tsunami on March 10, 2011. In the UK, a major phone hacking scandal surfaces and the Occupy Wall Street movement begins in the United States during September 2011. Apple CEO and technology guru Steve Jobs dies this year, along with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and Canada’s own Jack Layton. In television, Game of Thrones makes a popular debut along with Suits, New Girl and The Voice. Action films X-Men First Class, Thor and Immortals come to the big screen as well as critically-acclaimed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.