Travel Registered Respiratory Therapist - Columbus, OH

This travel Registered Respiratory Therapist job in Columbus, OH with Advantis Medical is a 13-week travel Registered Respiratory Therapist contract at Ohio State University - Wexner Medical Center. This role pays $2,036 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

In this travel Registered Respiratory Therapist job, you will support patient care through specialty-specific clinical services, perform assessments and treatments within your scope of practice, document patient progress, operate relevant medical equipment, and collaborate with physicians and the broader care team to help deliver quality patient outcomes.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with personalized recruiter guidance, fast and straightforward onboarding, complimentary licensing support, and benefits that start on Day 1.

Responsibilities

• Assess respiratory status and deliver ordered therapies, including aerosolized medications and oxygen management, across assigned units
• Set up, monitor, and manage mechanical ventilators, supporting weaning per physician orders and facility protocol
• Draw and analyze arterial blood gases per facility protocol
• Respond to rapid responses and codes, providing airway support and assisting with intubation when assigned

Travel Registered Respiratory Therapist Requirements

• 2+ years of recent Registered Respiratory Therapist experience
• Must hold all required Registered Respiratory Therapist certifications and licenses as mandated by Ohio and national regulatory bodies

Ohio State University – Wexner Medical Center — Columbus, OH

OSU Wexner's allied work lives in three distinct buildings: trauma and transplant flow through University Hospital, cardiac through the Ross Heart Hospital, and radiation oncology through the freestanding James Cancer Hospital.

• University Hospital's Level I trauma center, central Ohio's only adult burn center, and the region's only adult solid-organ transplant program drive complex trauma, burn, and transplant OR and imaging cases.
• The Arthur G. James, a freestanding NCI-designated cancer hospital, supports radiation therapy, dosimetry, and oncology imaging.
• The Ross Heart Hospital concentrates cardiac cath, electrophysiology, and cardiovascular surgery for cath-lab and CV techs.
• Imaging runs at academic scale across CT, MRI, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and ultrasound.
• A Center for Neuromodulation and neuroscience program add neuro-interventional volume; pathology and labs run at research-institution scale.