Respiratory Registered Therapist Specialty, Jackson Memorial Hospital, PT, Day or Nights

Respiratory Therapy Department Job

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial - located in the heart of the City of Miami - has been ground zero for some of the world's greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We've grown into one of the nation's largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world's most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

Job Responsibilities

• Sets up, assesses and monitors patients on ventilator or oxygenation support.
• Assists in the orientation, training and education of new respiratory care staff.
• Participates in interdepartmental and intradepartmental Quality Assessment and Improvement activities.
• Administers aerosolized medications via small volume nebulizer, metered dose inhaler, or intermittent positive pressure breathing machine.
• Administers bronchial hygiene therapy via percussion & vibration, postural drainage, coughing, suctioning, and PEP mask therapy.
• Communicates transparently with physician and nursing staff to maintain or improve the quality of processes or outcome.
• Documents completely and accurately data obtained from assessment and monitoring of patients, equipment, and alarm settings.
• Continuously updates knowledge, skills, and competency consistent with the needs of the patient population as well as advances in science and technology.
• Performs hemodynamic monitoring in areas, once trained, where therapists are authorized to do so.
• Performs pulmonary monitoring in areas, once trained, where therapists are authorized to do so.
• Operates electrocardiography equipment throughout the hospital using techniques and styles appropriate to the age and safety needs of the patient population served.
• Prepares suitable electrocardiograms for timely interpretation by physicians.
• Verifies the safety and performance of equipment to be used for patient testing, and verifies preventive maintenance status, prior to use.
• Follows organization wide and unit specific age-specific, safety security and infection control Standards.
• Relates and interacts well with others relative to their age specific, physical and psychosocial needs.
• Participates in quality improvement activities to insure continuous improvement of services provided.
• Registered Respiratory Therapists can be assigned Charge/Lead worker responsibilities.
• The position assigned to Holtz Pediatric units will also attend ground and air transports for Pediatric and Neonatal patients as needed to cover the transport team.
• The will assist with patient assignments should there be a staffing shortage; this includes responding to the other areas under the responsibility and care of the Pedi Respiratory Care Department, or any other assigned specialty area.
• The position assigned to Pediatric ER department may perform additional duties as assigned by the nurse manager.
• Performs all other related job duties as assigned.

Experience and Education

Generally requires 3 to 5 years of related experience. Associate's degree is required for employees hired after 3/1/2020. Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred. Any employee who will be performing Point of Care and testing in the Operating Room, Neuro ICU, NICU, PICU, Pedi-ER, Cath Lab and/or Interventional Radiology areas, the educational degree must be verified at the time of hire. Minimum education level required to be verified is Associate's degree.

Credentials

• Valid Florida State Respiratory License and Registered Respiratory Therapist from the National Board for Respiratory Care is required.
• Any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
• Any employee who works in areas Pediatrics (NICU/Pediatric ER) must have current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification may be required based on business unit or departmental need. STABLE certificate is preferred for RRT's assigned to NICU.

Unit Specific Credential: Basic Life Support (BLS) Adv Cardiovascular LifeSupport (ACLS)

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