RRT

Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)

Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

A Brief Overview The RRT works under supervision of the Respiratory Care Medical Director and Department Manager while performing diagnostic respiratory therapy in accordance with physicians' specific orders following Tidelands Health's clinical guidelines and protocols. The RRT works as a charge therapist on a as needed basis when competent to do so. The RRT assists with daily operations, educating patients, staff, nursing and physicians and has the ability to institute Oxygen Therapy when deemed a necessity without prior notification of the physician. The RRT completes other duties as assigned while exhibiting exemplary core customer skills.

What You Will Do

• Ensure compliance with patient identification, physician order verification/orders initialed, and patient/family member education of procedure to all age groups.
• Monitors the delivery of quality respiratory services within all service lines The therapist consistently demonstrates competency in proper procedure via protocol.
• Deliver quality respiratory services to all clients within all age groups.
• Review therapies for appropriateness, following established respiratory protocols.
• Provide administration of oxygen, ventilator care and associated monitoring as well as other critical care to all age groups.
• Perform work accurately and in a timely manner in periods of crisis as well as emergency situations.
• Locate medical records in the EMR, enter and complete all orders in Meditech, locate historical reports in cardiac software, print medical records from the EMR and cardiac software, and enter medical record information into cardiac software and EPIC as applicable. This is to include patient documentation in EMR, EPIC notes, all critical lab values via policy and following policy for scanning of patients in MAR with proper sequences.
• Therapist may oversee others as necessary.
• Assist with miscellaneous duties as assigned. These duties will include cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, trauma calls, starting new therapies, cleaning and stocking of equipment, transporting and monitoring of patients in specialty areas CT scan X-ray etc...

Education Qualifications

• Associate's Degree with the completion of a respiratory education program supported by CoARC or JRCRTE or accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Required

Experience Qualifications

• Prior experience as RRT. Preferred
• Prior experience as a inpatient RRT. Preferred
• Understanding of all modalities of therapy relating to Respiratory Care with the ability to apply and teach patients and implement procedures following our protocols. Required

Skills and Abilities

• Epic experience preferred.
• Exemplary core customer skills required

Licenses and Certifications

• Respiratory Care Practitioner - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and in good standing as a RCP with the SC State Board of Medical Examiners (NCBME). Required
• Registered Respiratory Therapist - National Board for Respiratory Care and in good standing as a RRT with the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC). Required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certified - American Heart Association Required
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certified - American Heart Association Preferred or
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program - American Academy of Pediatrics Preferred

Physical Demand Light Physical DemandThe intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.