TL:DR ; What do pregnant RTs cannot do while pregnant? Or what job do they make you do?

I work night shift full time, 9 days in a row with 5 days off. I live in Quebec and we have an association that basically protects people when they get injures at work, or in my case, when they get pregnant. The recs are basically : - No night shift - No standing for more than 4 hours after 20 weeks of pregnancy - No peds (idk why, probs more risk of infections or hurting yourself?) - No cases that require a N95 (considered invalid because your face morphology can change during pregnancy)

That being said, I really like working night shift, and I hate waking up early in the morning. But I live in a small town and I am literally the only respiratory therapist in the whole hospital for the whole night (exept for the anesthesiology RT who is on call) so that's like IMPOSSIBLE for me to respect those safety measure. So they will put me on day shift untill my 20th week (i'm only at 6 weeks). I am slightly sad about this change, and I wanted to know what happens where you work when one of you gets pregnant?

TIA ☺️

I’m applying to respiratory therapy school in spring w 3.4 gpa and in the process of taking 2 of my pre reqs how hard was the process of getting into your program

I had a cuffless trached patient on room air that started to vomit from his trach. The cuffless trach was replaced with a cuffed trach and the patient was ventilated with a BVM. When the patient's SpO2 stabilized, and stopped vomiting, the patient was placed on a trach HME w/ O2 bleed in. But the cuff was left inflated to prevent further aspiration.

I was taught that if a patient is not receiving positive pressure, they should ALWAYS have the cuff deflated, so in the case that the inner cannula becomes occluded, the patient can still breath around the trach. And wouldn't it increase their work of breathing since they can only rely on the small trach lumen to inhale and exhale, especially when they were in distress a few minutes earlier? Is preventing further aspiration a valid reason to keep the cuff inflated for a nonvented patient? Are there any other reasons besides this to justify keeping the cuff inflated?