Licensure: pathways and pitfalls.
Licensing laws are an exercise of the policing powers of the state to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by preventing the unqualified from practicing. This basic principle is often misunderstood. This article neither advocates nor challenges the need for licensure but rather examines the forces determining if the time for respiratory therapy licensure has arrived.
D008004:Licensure; D012138:Respiratory Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States