Registered Respiratory Therapist

Job Title

Registered Respiratory Therapist

Duties

The Registered Respiratory Therapist is responsible for independently administering complex respiratory therapy treatment to ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients. The respiratory therapist uses judgment in identifying and selecting the most appropriate procedures, equipment, and techniques for application to specific cases. The therapist identifies and analyzes factors related to equipment operation and patient responses to discern their interrelationship.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Consult literature on a regular basis (e.g. AARC Times, Respiratory Care, etc.) to stay acquainted with alternative modes of therapy and keep technically up to date.
• Cleans, sets up, and monitors a variety of complex respiratory equipment such as oxygen equipment, mechanical ventilators, CPAP/BIPAP machine, and therapeutic gas administration apparatus for critical care patients.
• Follows all respiratory care Sputum Collection for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB), Rapid Response Team (RRT), and ventilator wearing protocols to include Bronchodilator Therapy Protocol and Oxygen Protocols.
• Performs diagnostic tests to include arterial blood gas analysis, spirometry, pulse oximetry, weaning parameters, peak flow, end tidal C02, metabolic, and negative inspiratory force.
• Performs or assists with bedside bronchoscopies to include right BALs as ordered by a pulmonary physician.
• Performs all respiratory care procedures throughout the medical center, to include sputum collection for AFB, therapeutic aerosols, metered dose inhalers, oxygen therapy, chest physical therapy, and breathing exercises.
• Evaluates efficacies of therapeutic modalities. Initially and continuously assess the cardiopulmonary condition of assigned patients using data acquired through physical examination and respiratory monitoring and diagnostic equipment.
• Administers oxygen involving the use of variety of standard respiratory equipment to include low flow and high flow systems.
• Performs airway and tube care on patients including nasotracheal and endotracheal suctioning, cleaning and securing the tracheostomy and endotracheal tube and site, changing endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes per physician's order, monitoring tube cuff.

Work Schedule: Full-time, 3:30pm-12am Monday-Sunday with rotating weekends and Holidays.

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 14298F/14299F/21R77-A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized