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As our NICU Respiratory Care Practitioner, you will be a vital member of our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit team, providing specialized respiratory therapy to our most vulnerable and smallest patients. You will be instrumental in supporting the critical lung function and overall well-being of newborns in a highly acute environment.Every day you will manage and monitor mechanical ventilation, administer respiratory medications, perform airway care, and implement other advanced respiratory interventions for neonates. You will be expected to conduct comprehensive respiratory assessments, interpret blood gases, collaborate closely with neonatologists and the interdisciplinary team, and adapt treatment plans with precision and compassion, often in rapidly changing clinical situations.
Job Responsibility
Initiates and monitors mechanical ventilation to assure the patient is being ventilated adequately and according to protocol or the physician's written or verbal orders
Ability to perform arterial punctures for ABG's and other lab work following appropriate infection control technique
Intubates and extubates neonatal patients as per NICU protocol or the physician's written or verbal orders
Organizes and gives a comprehensive patient report to the on coming shift
Approaches the physician to clarify prescribed therapy and recommends modification when indicated
Assesses and monitors the use of oxygen by performing pulse oximetry to verify medical need for oxygen. Recommends changes in therapy
Requirements
At least two years of clinical experience in a level 2 or 3 NICU
Respiratory Care Practitioner: CA, upon hire
Basic Life Support - CPR - Authorized by the American Heart Association, upon hire
Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire
Registered Respiratory Therapist, upon hire
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire
Stable Program, within 12 - months
Nice to have
Transport Experience
Neonatal Intubation
What we offer
medical
prescription drug
dental
vision plans
life insurance
paid time off
tuition reimbursement
retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings