Registered Respiratory Therapist - PRN

UNC Health • Rocky Mount, NC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Respiratory Therapist provides professional respiratory care to patients ranging from newborns through geriatrics. The role includes critical care, general patient care assignments, and related patient care activities where assignments and duties 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 therapist administers standard respiratory care, including aerosol medication delivery, basic bedside pulmonary function testing, breathing exercises, oxygen therapy, arterial cannulation, and arterial punctures. Airway management duties include aspiration of established airways, tracheostomy care and tube changes, and endotracheal intubations and extubations. Pulmonary function testing may also be performed as needed. The role may include ventilator setup and care, patient monitoring, and weaning techniques. The therapist maintains and improves job knowledge and skills, supports and trains colleagues, records patient care information in the electronic medical record, and may assume Charge Therapist responsibilities.

This is a per diem, onsite position with a day-job schedule. The therapist may be required to be on call during days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Administer standard 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 as needed, including setup, function verification, use of specialized ventilator modes, patient monitoring, and appropriate weaning techniques.
• Maintain and improve job knowledge and skills; serve as a resource to staff, physicians, and other UNCHCS staff; assist with training new staff, students, and new physicians; and provide in-services as required.
• May assume Charge Therapist responsibilities.
• Record pertinent patient care procedure information according to hospital and departmental policies, including in the electronic medical record system.
• May be required to be on call during days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

What This Job Offers

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