Respiratory Therapist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Associate's Degree
• High School Diploma/GED
• Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) - The National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)
• Basic Life Support Program (BLS) - American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association

Responsibilities

• Maintains cleanliness of patient room and equipment, and prepares and calibrates equipment needed for testing.
• Administers inhaled medications to patients such as SABA, LABA, LAMA, ICS, and antibiotics, and other prescribed inhaled medications.
• Attends code blue and rapid response team activation to perform or assist with airway management.
• Conducts special procedures including electrocardiograms (EKGs), arterial blood gas tests (ABG), pulmonary function tests and surfactant delivery; assists physicians during caesarean section births, high-risk deliveries, and patient transports.
• Educates patients and their caregivers about their conditions and teaches appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.
• Performs incentive spirometry on patients to facilitate airway clearance and lung expansion.
• Performs thorough patient assessments, obtains a history and elicits an accurate description of sleep problems to diagnose and treat patients with science-based medicine.
• Performs ventilation therapies for proper selection of the delivery device to ensure adequate patient oxygenation.
• Sets up and operates mechanical ventilators using invasive or non-invasive procedures on patients ranging from neonatal to adult; administers high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV), high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), and conventional methods to deliver nitric oxide to patients.