Primary (Essential) Duties

• Provide respiratory therapy (conventional/routine) to all patients of all age groups, infants to adults, as ordered.
• Explains purpose and procedure of treatments, tests, and equipment to patients.
• Receive assignment. Check patient chart and physician's orders. Set up equipment and medications and administer treatments as ordered, e.g., oxygen administration, humidity therapy, airway management, resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, postural drainage procedures; closed atmosphere and respiratory monitoring, intermittent positive pressure breathing, aerosol therapy, and pharmacology respiratory therapy.
• Chart treatment, response, and progress.
• Monitor environmental control systems, others. Deliver and set up equipment and monitor patients on continuous ventilation.
• Do nasotracheal and tracheal (endotracheal tube or tracheostomy) suctioning.
• Make patient rounds regularly. Observe patient, check equipment, and change/make adjustments as necessary.
• Solve problems.
• Discontinue therapy as ordered.
• Remove equipment from patient rooms, disassemble, etc

Bonus Description: $5000- 15,000 Sign-On; Relocation Assistance is negotiable based on location

Work Conditions/Hours

12-hour shifts - schedule is based on the department needs.

Must-Haves

• Must be permanently licensed by the  State Board of Medicine as a Respiratory Care Practitioner
• Minimum 2-years' experience in the adult critical care setting within the last 5-years;
• ICU experience
• Registered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC).  If Registry eligible must obtain Registry within 1 year of hire date.
• High school diploma or GED
• BLS
• PALS
• ACLS
• NRP