Respiratory Therapist
- Perform chest examinations on a range of patients from babies through to the elderly
- Consult with doctors and other healthcare staff to develop and modify patient treatment plans
- Provide detailed therapy, requiring significant independent judgment, like when caring for patients in intensive care
- Perform physical examination and diagnostic tests measuring lung capacity and blood acidity and alkalinity
- Treat patients using oxygen or oxygen mixtures, aerosol medications and chest physiotherapy
- Connect patients who can’t breathe to a ventilator
- Educate patients on how to use equipment and medication
- Regularly check on patients and equipment
- Bedside manner
- Physiological knowledge
- Infection control
- Health promotion and maintenance
- Creating a safe, effective environment
- Informing others
- Verbal communication
- Medical teamwork
- Judgment
- Procedural skills
- People skills
- Associate’s degree with major in Respiratory Therapy
- Six months of experience within in the last two years or completion of a clinical rotation within the last year in critical care/intensive care environment, to include care of respiratory needs of acutely ill patients
- Valid state Respiratory Therapist license (must meet education requirement(s) for state licensure)
- Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) with the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) (must obtain within 3 months of hire)
- Certified Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Current BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certification
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