California Society For Respiratory Care (Csrc)

CSRC Mission Statement The California Society for Respiratory Care (CSRC), as an affiliate of the American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC), is a non-profit professional organization, whose mission is to represent and support our members through public and legislative advocacy, educational opportunities, and to continuously strive for excellence in the cardiopulmonary profession. By these means, the CSRC is committed to health, healing and disease prevention in the California community. CSRC Vision Statement The California Society for Respiratory Care strives to be the elite provider of education, consumer information and the benchmark for professionalism. CSRC Focused Efforts The California Society for Respiratory Care strives to stress the importance of membership with focused efforts which help define the CSRC's identity. Narrowowing our focus with this collective effort and directing the energy of the CSRC helps to amplify our strength as we move towards the millennium. This focused effort will help guide the CSRC in identifying and meeting its professional goals. In order to both highlight this movement and simplify the message, the CSRC has created the acronym P.A.C.E. This acronym stands for Professionalism, Advocacy, Commitment, and Excellence. Professionalism CSRC members have access to free continuing education, local networking where YOU have the chance to volunteer in YOUR state society. Advocacy CSRC members advocate in the state legislatures. CSRC represents RTs to a variety of agencies and coalitions. Commitment CSRC has the largest concentration of RTs who are engaged and involved in improving respiratory care. Excellence CSRC members strive for best practice standards and the development of educated, credentialed respiratory care practitioners who are committed to health and disease prevention in California.