Respiratory Therapist Hospital (PRN)

Summary Job Description: Job Title: Respiratory Therapist, Certified PRN - 1ST SHIFT
Job Description: The certified respiratory therapist assesses, treats, and monitors patients with respiratory diseases and conditions. This includes the delivery of medicated and non-medicated therapy as ordered by the provider. Additionally, therapists provide invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilator support for acute respiratory failure. As part of patient assessment and management, the therapist performs diagnostic test procedures. In addition, therapists assist in departmental operations by assisting with quality improvement projects, equipment and supplies. The certified therapist follows all applicable rules and regulations established by the licensure board depending on the state in which respiratory therapy is practiced. Provide Respiratory Care to newborn through geriatrics in generally predictable, although critical situations, under the supervision of the medical director. Possesses a sound knowledge and an adequate proficiency in the skills of Respiratory Care and Electrodiagnostic practices, procedures, and techniques, as they pertain to newborn through geriatric patients. Conducts physician prescribed treatments of a routine nature; operating Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing (IPPP) machine, various oxygen devices, nebulizer, or Metered Dose Inhaler to administer prescribed medications, gases and humidity and various oxygen concentrations to the respiratory system of the patient. Performs chest physiotherapy treatments involving percussion, postural drainage, adjunct therapy and suctioning to loosen and mobilize secretions and mucus in the lungs. Performs arterial puncture; operates blood gas analyzer measuring and determining the acid base balance efficiencies of ventilation, and metabolism of the respiratory system.
Requirements Certificate/ diploma in respiratory care.
Prefer Associate degree in respiratory care.
Must possess a current and valid KBRC license.
Certified Respiratory Therapist by the National Board for Respiratory Care.
BLS ACLS, PALS and NRP certification within the first year of employment.
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Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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