HOW TO APPLY FOR THE RESPIRATORY CARE PROGRAM
STEP 1 ADMISSION PROCESS: Read the admission process booklet thoroughly located at www.cameron.edu/respiratory_care.
If you have questions, please call: Adrienne D. Reid, Program Director at 580-250-5641 or email areid@cameron.edu,
or Cody Flood, Advisement Specialist at 580-581-6745 or email cgardner@cameron.edu.
STEP 2 CAMERON UNIVERSITY ADMISSION: If you are not currently a student, please apply for admission to Cameron
University online at www.cameron.edu/admissions and click the APPLY link to the right. Contact Info: Office of Admission – Shepler
Center, 2nd Floor Rm 227. 2800 West Gore Blvd., Lawton, OK 73505 or call 580.581.2289 or Toll Free Number 1.888.454.7600.
Email: admissions@cameron.edu Make sure that you have requested all your previous college transcripts from other
institutions to be sent to Cameron University in a timely manner at least 2 – 4 weeks prior to the program’s deadline date, so that the
general education prerequisites may be properly evaluated by Cameron University’s registrar for equivalency.
STEP 3 APPLICATION: Download and print the application form from the program’s website located at
www.cameron.edu/respiratory_care. Submit filled out application with the three other documents listed for the application to
be complete and considered for entrance into the Respiratory Care Program.
STEP 4 ASSESSMENT TEST: The program will use your ACT Composite Score for the assessment portion of your application.
If you would like to improve your ACT Composite Score you may sit for the ACT exam again or take the ACT Residual Exam
scheduled at Cameron University Testing Center by calling 580.581.2502, located in North Shepler, Room 532.
STEP 5 HEALTHCARE PROVIDER BLS/CPR: Submit a copy of your CPR certification with your application.
The program will require that this is completed to turn in with your application and can be taken at Cameron University,
Great Plains Technology Center, and various local hospitals by contacting the hospital’s education department, or the
American Heart Association.
STEP 6 JOB SHADOWING EXPERIENCE: Download and print the job shadowing form. This form requires the signature
of the Respiratory Care Program Director, to verify your Cameron University Respiratory Care application status PRIOR to scheduling
your job shadowing experience. Once you have met with the Respiratory Care Program Director who will sign off on the form, schedule
the job shadowing experience and complete a minimum of 20 hours of observation. Submit the completed Job Shadowing Experience
Form with your application.
STEP 7 DEGREE WORKS: Print a current Degree Works from your AggieAccess account located on the Cameron University website.
Make sure you have Respiratory Care listed as your degree major and if needed, please conduct a What IF that has this program
major selected. Submit the current Degree Works with your application. (You may need to submit an updated Degree Works at
the end of the spring semester and prior to the deadline date, if you will be taking or completing prerequisites for the respiratory
care program).
STEP 8 REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION CHECKLIST: Submit the following documents to Cameron University’s additional
location at Great Plains Technology Center campus – 4500 SW Lee Blvd., Lawton, OK 73505 in Building 700, Office 710.
Open M –F, 8:00am – 4:00pm. Submit the current Degree Works with your application. (You may need to submit an updated Degree
Works at the end of the spring semester and prior to the deadline date, if you will be taking or completing prerequisites for the
radiologic technology program).
(ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE SUBMITTED AT THE SAME TIME TO
APPLY FOR
THE RESPIRATORY CARE PROGRAM)
APPLICATION FORM
BLS HEALTHCARE PROVIDER CPR
JOB SHADOWING EXPERIENCE FORM
DEGREE WORKS
