Respiratory Therapist

Unit Notes
Strict 75 mile radius rule
RRT's only- Critical Care experience required
Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience and 1 travel contract
Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience. (300+ Beds experience required).

. There will be a hospitalist who will respond to codes, but a respiratory therapist will be the first line when it comes to intubating patients, so I won't be able to take therapists who don't have that experience or are not comfortable with intubating patients. Also, our therapists have to be used to high and heavy workloads

Will interview with our internal RN's and then their profile and the internal notes are sent to Phoebe for approval, NO Second interview will be needed.

Unit: Respiratory
# treatments per day: Therapists do 550 minutes per shift, average of 15 minutes per treatment. Average of 13-15 patients per shift
Certs - RRT, GA state license, BLS, ACLS, PALS, if going to NICU need NRP
EMR: Meditech
Charge RT: Yes, run a Charge and Clinical Coordinator
Weekend Requirement: M-Thurs team and a weekend team; you will work M-Th or F-Sun team--hours will shift, will be noted in job posting which hours needed
Holidays: Rotated in with perm staff; every other holiday can be expected
Call: None
Scrub Color: Ceil blue, can wear ceil blue jacket only
Vents: Servo vents (U and I models)
Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: In house 24/7 (either MDs or NP)
Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
Shifts: 645 am and pm starts; can clock in 638am-646am or 638pm-646pm, otherwise late
Floating n/a
Floor specific orientation: For floor assignments, first week is hospital and charting orientation; next week list lightened, take 300 min first day, 400 next and then 500 next and then on their own; For ICU, they will add another week of orientation
Types of patients (adults, peds, and neonates?): NICU RTs are under nursing manager for NICU; they are separate from adult needs; adult will do peds to adults
Duties : All RT duties such as nebs, airway management, vapotherm, bipap, cpap, vents, ABG collection, bedside pfts, CPT, in ICU the RT will place A line, manage blood gases, will intubate, do bronchs
Common Patient disease processes : COPD, CHF, pneumonia, resp failure, ARDS, cancers, etc
Additional Notes: Assignments are based on units; in ICU for example are up to 4 airways per therapist (airway considered a vent, heated aerosol trach off vent, etc); Average 11 therapists on days and 10 or 11 on nights based on unit needs; floor therapist needs minimum one year experience, if critical care need minimum of 2 years
Additional Questions: Are they able to work critical care? They must be able to work adult ICU and work the vents. They will teach them A lines, will need to feel confident making suggestions for vent management, read ABGs and alert critical values.