Respiratory Care Practitioner

Your skills make a difference in the treatment of adult, geriatric, pediatric and neonatal respiratory patients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform respiratory therapy, ventilator management, code team, EKG, and other duties, which may include exercise stress testing and pulmonary function testing.
• Achieves and maintains advanced level clinical skills necessary to care for critical patients.
• Demonstrates knowledge of monitoring equipment and proper interpretation of data including end tidal monitors and pulmonary mechanics.
• Demonstrates ability to perform all modalities of respiratory therapeutic treatments and medications adhering to department policies and procedure.

Planning and Implementation of Workload:

• Performs cardiopulmonary procedures using the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the age of patients (neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric) served.
• Flexible and adaptable in staffing and workload distribution.
• Offers assistance to co-workers.
• Collaborates with health team members using appropriate resources (skill, knowledge, equipment and standards) to achieve positive outcomes.

Communication and Documentation:

• Complete, accurate and timely information is gathered and documented in the department and patient records.
• Accurate charges and record keeping is done to ensure proper billing.
• Verbal and non-verbal age-appropriate communications are open and positive with peers, supervisors, physicians, patients and all outside customers.

Maintenance of Equipment and Workspace:

• Clinic environment, equipment, and personal workspace are maintained in a neat and safe manner.
• Annual safety and other hospital wide educational requirements are met in a timely fashion and clearly documented.

Education and Professional Development:

• Participates in presenting professional information to colleagues and/or the community.
• Takes on special responsibilities such as equipment evaluation or department education.

The Respiratory Care Practitioner has a basic knowledge of related special procedures. Pulmonary Function Testing, Holter and Cardiac Event Testing, Cardiac Testing, including Thalluim Scans, signal Average ECG, Transesophageol Echocardiograms, Stress Echocardiograms and Cardiac Drug Stress Testing. Communicates effectively with all physicians, physician's office staff and other departments involved in special procedures.

Minimum qualifications include an Associate degree in Respiratory Therapy from a program accredited by the Committee On Accreditation for Respiratory Care (COARC) or accredited by the American Medical Association's Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA). Current applicable state Respiratory Care Practitioner/RT (RCPRT) license required. Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) advanced practitioner credential by the NBRC preferred.