Full Time - Registered Respiratory Therapist - Pulmonary Department

UNC Health • Rocky Mount, NC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Respiratory Therapist provides professional respiratory care to patients from newborns through geriatrics. The role includes critical care, general patient care assignments, and related patient care activities, with duties that are predominantly predictable. The therapist is accountable to the North Carolina Board of Respiratory Care for practicing within the scope of the North Carolina Respiratory Care Practice Act. The position is in the Pulmonary Department at Nash UNC Health Care and is onsite, with a night work schedule and 36 standard hours per week. On-call coverage may be required during days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

• Graduate of a CAHEA-approved respiratory care training program.
• Current North Carolina license to practice respiratory care as a Respiratory Care Practitioner.
• Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) credential or eligibility to sit for the exam.
• Current BCLS certification.
• Current ACLS certification.

Responsibilities

• Administer respiratory care, including aerosol medication delivery, basic bedside pulmonary function testing, breathing exercises, oxygen therapy, arterial cannulation, and arterial punctures.
• Provide airway management, including aspiration of established airways, tracheostomy care and tube changes, and endotracheal intubations and extubations.
• Perform pulmonary function testing as needed.
• Provide ventilator care, including setting up ventilators, verifying function, using specialized modes, monitoring patients, and providing appropriate weaning techniques.
• Maintain and improve job knowledge and skills; serve as a resource to staff, physicians, and other UNC Health Care staff; assist with training new staff, students, and physicians; and provide in-services as required.
• May assume Charge Therapist responsibilities.
• Record pertinent patient-care information according to hospital and departmental policies, including in the electronic medical record system.
• May be required to provide on-call coverage during days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed