What are the responsibilities and job description for the Respiratory Therapist - Night Shift Position position at Advocate Aurora Health?
About the Job
Advocate Aurora Health is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Respiratory Therapist to join our team. This is a multisite position, working in both critical care and non-critical care settings.
Responsibilities
- Support assessment of patients utilizing various skills such as pulmonary diagnostics, chest radiograph, hemodynamic values, laboratory values, and correlate blood gases and electrolytes.
- Operate specialized ventilators in critical and non-critical care venues.
- Assist physician with bedside or other procedures as applicable to facility.
- Provide medication treatments and therapies per physician order and/or patient driven respiratory protocols as prescribed.
- Clean, maintain, and ensure proper functionality of equipment.
- Troubleshoot equipment as necessary and identify the need for service and/or repair.
- Educate and instruct patients in purpose, technique, self-care, goal of therapy, and disease management.
- Facilitate clinical problem solving and collaborate with other departments to provide education on managing patients.
- Under physician direction, the respiratory therapist must be able to adapt and comply to policies and procedures for a variety of different service areas, perform tasks and/or special duties as required by assignment and maintain performance standards and organizational behaviors.
- Demonstrate effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution skills. Provide clear, concise, timely, and accurate patient handoff.
- Promote a culture of safety by recognizing and applying proper safety measures to prevent patient harm. Report patient safety events and near misses in a timely manner. Seek to identify potential safety issues and assist in the implementation of corrective actions.
