REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST II - All shifts - University of New Mexico Hospital

Registered Respiratory Therapist - Day & Night Shifts - University of New Mexico - Albuquerque We have immediate openings. All shifts available. Sign‑On Bonus Available. Relocation Assistance Available. Receive 17% Weekday Nights, 26% Weekend Nights and 15% Weekend Day shift differentials. Apply and we will have a hiring manager contact you within 48 hours to discuss your interests and placement. Minimum Offer: $28.29/hr. Maximum Offer: $42.43/hr. Compensation Disclaimer: Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations. Department: Pulmonary Services

FTE: 0.90

Full Time Shift: Days Position Summary Provide clinical respiratory care. Access, evaluate, and recommend interventions to obtain specific patient outcomes. Assemble, operate, and troubleshoot various types of respiratory equipment used in diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disease, disability, impairment, and illness. Ensure adherence to Hospital and Departmental Policies, Procedures and guidelines. Patient care assignment may include Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric age groups. Detailed Responsibilities Provide patient education and consultation on disease management. Ensure customer and patient satisfaction using scripting procedure. Access patient, administer and evaluate appropriate respiratory therapy, including aerosolized medication delivery, chest physiotherapy, intermittent positive pressure breathing, oxygen supplementation, pulmonary hygiene, artificial airway care, tracheostomy care, incentive spirometry, non‑invasive and invasive procedures. Serve as a resource for certified respiratory therapy technicians and assistants. Assist healthcare team managing patients on mechanical ventilators, monitor patients requiring mechanical life support, follow weaning guidelines/protocols. Recommend appropriate mode of ventilatory support to physicians; participate with critical care team on patient rounds and teaching. Participate in hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation team, provide airway maintenance, manual resuscitation and chest compression during cardiac codes, assist with endotracheal tube insertion, stabilization and continued ventilatory support. Participate in hospital trauma team, respond to trauma pages, assist with intubation, airway management and ventilator support, assist with internal transport of ventilator and patient. Participate with hospital high‑risk labor and delivery team, respond to high‑risk delivery pages, provide airway management, assist with intubation and stabilization of endotracheal tube, administer surfactant if ordered by physician and provide ventilator support. Perform arterial puncture for blood gas analysis. Run blood gas sample for analysis. Interpret arterial blood gas and electrolyte results. Provide recommendations for therapy and ventilation based on lab results. Perform simple bedside pulmonary function tests on intubated and non‑intubated patients, make recommendations for therapy and ventilator support. Perform oximetry for arterial oxygen saturation evaluation. Setup, evaluate and monitor ETCO2 and sleep study monitoring. Receive and initiate physician's orders for respiratory care, including verbal orders under hospital policy. Provide patient clinical assessment; evaluate patient criteria for appropriateness of and compliance with therapeutic objectives. Administer and monitor medical gases and environmental control systems including oxygen, compressed air, heliox, nitrogen, nitric oxide; participate in medical gas failure emergencies and planned outages. Administer aerosolized pharmacological agents and calculate dosages for continuous aerosolized therapy; transition patients from aerosol delivery to MDIs according to department guidelines. Assist facility maintenance, maintain equipment, label and route malfunctioning equipment to appropriate location. Collaborate with healthcare team to implement and document in individual plan of care with age‑specific considerations. Include discharge plan and patient/family teaching. Follow patient safety‑related policies, procedures and protocols. Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes. Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk. Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner. Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may not seem right. Qualifications Education: Associate Degree in a related discipline. Experience: Hospital respiratory therapy equipment – ability to operate respiratory care therapy applications and side effects comprehensive knowledge. Nonessential: Bilingual English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo 3 years directly related experience. Credentials: CPR for Healthcare/BLS or a professional rescuer within 30 days; Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification within 1 year; Respiratory Care Practitioner in NM; Registered Respiratory Therapist. Physical Conditions: Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for medium work. Working Conditions: Med Haz: Moderate exposure to chemicals/dangerous equipment/materials; may perform subordinate tasks in high census/vol; required to perform on‑call duties; may work rotating shifts, holidays and weekends; tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and as required. #J-18808-Ljbffr UNM HOSPITALS