Fay RRT

DCH Health Care Authority•Fayette, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Respiratory Therapist provides general respiratory therapy, adult and pediatric critical care, and limited diagnostic services to adult and pediatric patients. The role includes care for patients across neonatal, infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups, using basic and advanced emergency, therapeutic, and diagnostic procedures. The therapist reviews and evaluates clinical information, assesses patients, develops care plans, provides education, and explains clinical decisions using scientific principles, practice guidelines, or experience. The role also involves maintaining respiratory care equipment, performing quality controls, and contributing to departmental quality assurance and organization-wide performance improvement. This is an onsite role requiring physical presence. The working environment includes exposure to bodily fluids, disease, infection, laboratory chemicals, hazardous materials, and cleaning solutions, and requires the use of common protective or safety equipment. The work involves regular assigned hours with occasional long hours and substantial physical activity, including prolonged standing and walking, running in emergencies, and heavy lifting or exertion.

Requirements

Current Alabama Respiratory Therapist license.
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) credential.
BLS certification required.
Ability to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.
Ability to work the regular assigned schedule, with occasional long hours.
Ability to tolerate prolonged periods of standing and walking and to run in emergency situations.
Ability to feel and perceive temperature, texture, shape, and size with fingertips.
Ability to perform physical activities including talking, hearing, bending, twisting, walking, running, stooping, kneeling, crawling, reaching, pushing, crouching, pulling, lifting, repetitive motion, and standing.
Ability to use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
Ability to perform heavy work, exerting up to 100 pounds occasionally, up to 50 pounds frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects.
Ability to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
Physical presence onsite is essential.

Nice To Haves

PALS certification.
ACLS certification.

Responsibilities

Perform and accurately record technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and within the scope of policy.
Review, collect, and evaluate relevant clinical data and formulate an appropriate care plan based on patient assessment.
Perform basic and advanced emergency, therapeutic, and diagnostic procedures for neonatal, infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Provide effective education to patients and coworkers as appropriate.
Assemble and check respiratory care equipment, correct malfunctions, and perform quality controls.
Participate in departmental quality assurance and facility-wide organizational performance improvement activities.
Base actions, decisions, and clinical care on scientific principles, clinical practice guidelines, or successful experience.
Perform patient care procedures including oxygen and aerosol therapy, bronchial hygiene, postural drainage and percussion, intermittent positive pressure breathing, Acapella, aerosolized medications, handheld nebulizer, metered-dose inhaler, dry powder inhaler, critical care, CPAP/BiPAP, mechanical ventilation including transport, blood collection and analysis, emergency tracheostomy tube replacement, and bedside pulmonary function testing.
Maintain performance, patient and employee satisfaction, and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
Meet compliance requirements and follow DCH Behavioral Standards, policies, and procedures.
Promote positive relationships with patients and families, coworkers, and colleagues.
Perform essential job functions in a manner that ensures safety; identify unsafe practices and take appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards.
Use electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software, and the intranet.
Perform other duties as assigned.