Role Overview: Provides specialized respiratory therapy procedures to patients with diverse needs and physical abnormalities. Ensures optimal patient care through clinical competency, assessment, and effective communication with healthcare team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates clinical skills necessary for adult, geriatric, neonatal, and pediatric respiratory care.
- Evaluates clinical information via inspection, auscultation, patient review, and laboratory data.
- Reviews diagnostic reports and collaborates with physicians to develop care plans.
- Monitors patient responses, explains therapies, and performs procedures timely and accurately.
- Documents procedures and communicates patient status to team members.
- Ensures equipment functionality, troubleshooting, and proper maintenance.
- Participates in clinical instruction of allied health students and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Completion of an accredited Respiratory Therapist Program.
- Licensure as a Respiratory Care Practitioner and registered respiratory therapist license.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 30 days of employment.
- Strong knowledge of respiratory care techniques, patient assessment, and equipment management.
Experience: Not specified.