AARC Safe & Effective Staffing Guide
The AARC Safe & Effective Staffing Guide, or “SESG,” provides respiratory care departments with invaluable tools for success in a value-based care environment. It is the only methodology endorsed by the AARC.
The Tools You Need
to Create Efficient Staffing Programs
The SESG is the the gold standard for validated delivery of respiratory care procedures.
The SESG will help you ensuring safe and effective care is provided to patients while RTs are supported and empowered, even with the national shortage of RTs.
The SESG Comes with All These Features
In addition to everything listed below, the SESG also has resources to assist respiratory care departments with adoption and implementation.
- An introduction to value-based productivity management
- Time Standards for the most performed clinical and support activities provided by respiratory therapists
- Methodology used for the creation of validated time standards
- The AARC Value Efficiency Position Paper and Issue Paper
- Case Studies
- EMR Integration Tools and Application of Informatics
- Staffing Tools and Productivity Workbooks
- User-created Activity Tables
- The 5th Edition of the URM (for comparison purposes)
- CPT Code Table and Guide
- Staffing Plan Template
- Annotated Bibliography (the most comprehensive list of RC productivity and staffing optimization resources in the world)
- CPT Codes (with 3 years of updates)
- Time Standards (with 3 years of updates)
- New Procedures/Time Standards (with 3 years of updates)
- Position Statements (with 3 years of updates)
- Issue Papers (with 3 years of updates)
- Ongoing Support
- Forecasting Tools
- Automation Tools
- Podcasts/Webinars
- “How to Videos”
Purchase the SESG for Yourself or Your Entire Network
Get discounted pricing when you purchase the SESG for more than one facility. Non-member purchases include a free year of AARC Membership.
You are eligible for a free update to the current version if you purchased the SESG in 2025. Purchases of the SESG before 2025 are eligible for discounted updates: $100 for AARC Members and $280 for non-members. Non-member purchases prior to 2025 include a free year of AARC membership. Contact AARC Customer Care for more information.
Get the Free Toolkit for Respiratory Care Leaders
The Toolkit is a free overview of the key concepts in delivering safe and effective staffing. It’s a preview of the content included in the SESG. See how Nemours Children’s Health reduced waste and improved patient care using validated value efficiency metrics to appropriately staff for respiratory care.
Submit the form below to receive a link by email to download The Toolkit.
What Your Colleagues Are Saying
Sound strategy starts with sound evidence. That’s why we rely on the Safe and Effective Staffing Guide (SESG) — it delivers a more accurate and standardized view of respiratory therapy productivity than traditional methods.
Dana Evans, MHA, RRT, RRT-NPS, FACHE
I’ve successfully used the SESG time standards for justification when advocating for additional staffing. The ability to accurately validate our workloads impressed administration and helped us prove that our request for additional staffing was justified.
Cheryl A. Hoerr, MBA, RRT
By embracing SESG from the start, we championed a data-driven staffing strategy — putting the right people in place at exactly the right moment and empowering our teams to provide exceptional care every time.
Gbolahan “Gboly” Harris, RRT, RRT-SDS, RRT-NPS, RPSGT
Questions?
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