Respiratory Therapist Respiratory 36 Hours Nights Weekends Rotating Holidays
Respiratory Therapist Respiratory 36 Hours Nights Weekends Rotating Holidays
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05-04-2025
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05-04-2025
Job Description
Overview
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Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!
Hours: 36 Hours Nights Weekends Rotating Holidays
Job Summary:
Performs a wide range of prescribed therapeutic and diagnostic respiratory care procedures in the routine critical care areas on adult pediatric and newborn patients. Maintains the necessary equipment supplies and records related to those procedures.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
- Systematically gathers and evaluates relevant information and data from the patient interview and/or all the patient information sources.
- Develops an appropriate care plan for patients based upon the systematic information gathering and analysis.
- Identifies variations from expected findings and understands the significance for such variations.
- Takes appropriate actions when variations are identified.
- Assesses the patients learning needs identifies learning style and barriers to learning and assesses the patients readiness to learn.
- Identifies situations when it is appropriate to involve the family and/or significant other and /or friends in patients education.
- Plans for and provides patient teaching.
- Evaluates the patients understanding of his or her condition treatment and/or prognosis.
- Informs the patient of his or her plan of care and/or discharge plan and follow up instructions
- Evaluates and validates the effectiveness of the patient teaching.
- Prepares the patient to accept a level of responsibility for his or her own care.
- Coordinates care with other healthcare providers.
- When appropriate delegates to other healthcare providers.
- Assesses and reassesses the patients condition status and progress.
- Prioritizes reprioritizes and modifies the plan of care based upon patient assessment and patient condition.
- Documents the implementation of the plan of care and any adverse and/or unexpected events or outcomes.
- Measures and administers the correct medication dosage per physicians order.
- Administers respiratory therapy treatments and oxygen therapy.
- Understands the purpose and possible side effects associated with respiratory therapy treatments.
- Obtains ABGs per hospital policy.
- Performs Pulse Oximetry and ensures accurate results.
- Performs Pulmonary Function following ATS Standards.
- Performs EKGs and ensures quality recordings.
- Assists with flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy.
- Sets up mechanical ventilators including BIPAP and CPAP Units and selects the correct patient parameters.
- Assesses mechanical ventilators and BIPAP and CPAP functioning to ensure safe operation.
- Assesses patient status and uses information to recommend changes in patient plan of care.
- Assesses patient cardiopulmonary status and uses data to recommend changes to patients plan of care.
- Provides instruction on proper use of cardiopulmonary medication and equipment.
- Distributes age and cultural specific patient education materials based on educational needs.
- Responsible for implementing components of the VAP bundle consistently and per protocol. Responsible for alerting the Nurse Manager/Director/Nursing Supervisor if there is a deviation from VAP bundle by Attending MD for case review and follow up as indication.
Statement of Other Duties
This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform jobrelated duties beyond those explicitly described.
Functional Demands
Physical Requirements
Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) and handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands). Occasionally stoop (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) crouches (bending the body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
Organizational Expectations
Behavioral Attributes
The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation concern for order flexibility initiative selfconfidence customer service oriented interpersonal effectiveness teamwork analytical thinking and information seeking.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
Minimum Education
- Graduate of a CoARC approved Respiratory Therapy program.
- Credentialed as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (R.R.T. by the National Board for Respiratory Care (or eligible).
Minimum Work Experience
- Prior experience required.
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
- Respiratory Therapists Licensed as a Respiratory Therapist by the State of Massachusetts.
- Current AHA BLS required.
- ACLS obtained within6 months of hire
- NRP required or obtained within 6 months of hire.
- PALS preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
Key Skills
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