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Responsible for the delivery of professional respiratory care services, which will address the physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cultural, developmental and age appropriate needs of each individual patient/family. Accountable for a group of patients for a designated time period. Provides care and care planning in concert with other professional healthcare providers.
Job Responsibility:
Performs basic physician ordered treatments for Adults and Pediatrics: Aerosol Therapy Treatments, Low flow and High Flow Oxygen Therapy, Airway Clearance Therapy, Airway expansion Therapy, Bedside Spirometry, ETCO2 Monitoring, & ABG's
Educate patient and document on all procedures performed
Set up, maintain, and clean all invasive and non-invasive ventilators
Monitor and document all therapy procedures
Responds to Code Blue, traumas, OB emergency, and other emergency situations
NICU/Mother Baby - Aerosol Therapy Treatments, Low flow and High flow Oxygen Therapy, Airway Clearance Therapy, Invasive and Non-Invasive ventilators
Performs basic EKG's
Cleans and stores equipment and supplies
Requirements:
Graduate of approved Respiratory Therapy program/school
Licensed Respiratory Therapist (RT) - State Board of Healing Arts
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) - National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 180 Days
Nice to have:
Recent clinical respiratory therapy experience
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)