Pulmonary Diagnostics -Resp Therapist III

Cincinnati Children's

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Resp Therapist III role at Cincinnati Children's focuses on providing expert respiratory care with a strong emphasis on clinical judgment, patient advocacy, systems thinking, clinical inquiry, and collaboration. This position involves synthesizing complex patient data, advocating for patients and families, navigating healthcare systems, leading quality improvement initiatives, and fostering a culture of safety and continuous learning. The role requires integrating age-specific care, developing comprehensive education plans, and mentoring peers and students. A key aspect is ensuring regulatory compliance and contributing to departmental and hospital-wide quality and safety goals. The therapist must be proficient in respiratory care skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, and prioritization, while also recognizing and pursuing professional growth opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field
5+ years of work experience in a related job discipline
RT License
Registered RT

Responsibilities

Synthesizes and interprets multiple, sometimes conflicting, sources of data; uses past experiences to anticipate problems; seeks interdisciplinary collaboration and consultation; recognizes and responds to situations.
Leads efforts to improve documentation of the plan of care and care delivered.
Has an innate awareness of the patient and family's current and future cardio pulmonary needs and is fully engaged in the plan of care with the patient, family, other health care providers and community as needed.
Expertly integrates age specific concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.
Creatively modifies or develops patient and family education programs; integrates formal and informal patient/family education throughout delivery of care; evaluates understanding by observing behavior changes related to learning; collaborates with all healthcare providers, the patient and family to develop comprehensive education plans.
Works on behalf of patient, family, and community; advocates from patient/family perspective, whether similar to or different from personal values; suspends rules - patient and family drive moral decision-making; empowers the patient and family to speak for/represent themselves; achieves mutuality within patient/professional relationships.
Uses inclusive resources available internally to enhance the experience of care for the inclusive patient populations.
Appreciates and incorporates differences, including alternative therapies into care; tailors care to the extent possible.
Demonstrates efforts to grow self and others in cultural competence.
Knows when and how to negotiate and navigate through the system on behalf of patients and families.
Intervenes and leads others to change systems and processes as appropriate to support optimal patient outcomes.
Sustains an extensive understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Works with managers to lead efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Monitors and assists others to comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensures all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
Is well-informed of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and assertively communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
While in the role of Lead, serve as a point of contact for the for the ongoing monitoring of workload, work flow and appropriate respiratory care staffing levels.
Demonstrates awareness of respiratory care divisional as well as unit competency needs, providing leadership to improve competence of staff.
Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process.
Precepts Respiratory Care peers and students.
Facilitates learning for members of the healthcare team and the community.
Assume responsibility for own learning. Initiate activities toward meeting those needs and integrate new knowledge into practice.
Takes a leadership role in working with respiratory care managers, respiratory care councils and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
Utilizes inclusive resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
Interacts confidently by promoting and expecting collaborative behavior in others.
Mentors others to respect the contribution of the entire team.
Is able to lead others to work collaboratively valuing the contributions of the various disciplines in patient/practice issues.
Demonstrates leadership in the shared governance structure at the cluster or divisional level councils, committees, task forces or projects.
Serves as chair for councils, committees, task forces or project work.
Supports and leads divisional leadership initiatives.
Recognizes lateral violence and bullying among respiratory therapists or between healthcare professionals is inappropriate in the workplace and will not contribute to its presence and will work to prevent it in the workplace.
To function as a professional respiratory therapist and able to apply theoretical knowledge to the care of infant child, adolescent and adult patients and clients.
To demonstrate competence in Respiratory Care skills, problem solving, critical thinking and prioritization.
To recognize the need for professional growth and to take appropriate steps towards meeting educational needs.