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Respiratory Therapist
Middlebury, VT
Job Description :
To plan, implement and perform respiratory care diagnostic and therapeutic regimes for the care of patients for whom services are indicated.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation
- Operation, maintenance, and management of related equipment including mechanical ventilators
- Patient transportation (internal, external, as staffing allows)
- Blood gas drawing, analysis and interpretation
- Sampling blood from invasive cardiovascular lines
- Artificial airway management
- Aerosolized drug administration
- Oxygen therapy
- Humidity therapy
- Continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP)
- Bilevel CPAP
- Pulse oximetry
- Pulmonary function testing (bedside and in diagnostic lab)
- Incentive spirometry (IS)
- Chest Physiotherapy and airway clearance techniques
- Patient assessment
- Patient education
- Effective communication with other departments
- Operation of all equipment in accordance with department policy
- Equipment disinfection
- Quality control of all equipment
- Active participation in the departments Quality Assurance Program
- Participation in in-service education program
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