Respiratory Care Practitioner II

As our Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP) you will be a vital clinical professional dedicated to providing high-quality respiratory care to pediatric adult and geriatric critical care patients.

Every day under medical and departmental direction youll deliver essential respiratory care per physician orders and policies. Youll ensure critical care services are met meticulously manage equipment and adapt care plans to optimize patient outcomes.

To be successful youll combine strong clinical expertise meticulous attention to detail excellent communication and a compassionate approach directly contributing to healing and recovery in critical care.

• Respiratory Care knowledge and skills: Demonstrates knowledge regarding infant pediatric and adult pulmonary disease processes and appropriate respiratory care interventions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of applicable ventilator modalities and applications in the acute and sub-acute settings.
• Demonstrates knowledge of applicable infant and pediatric ventilator modalities and applications in the sub-acute setting.
• Demonstrates knowledge of respiratory pharmacology including recommended dosing indications and contraindications of each drug.
• Demonstrates knowledge of therapeutic management and monitoring of the sick neonate.
• Provides safe and effective therapeutic administration of aerosolized medications to the tracheal bronchial tree through nebulized medications and IPPB.

• Graduate of an accredited Respiratory Therapy Program. Respiratory care services is pediatric department shall be provided by respiratory care practitioners who are licensed by the state of California and who have completed formal training in pediatric respiratory care which includes didactic and clinical experience. upon hire and
• Respiratory Care Practitioner: CA upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support upon hire and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support upon hire and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program upon hire

Preferred

• One (1) year previous experience as an RCP in acute care and
• Two (2) years of acute care experience including critical care and neonatal intensive care for lead therapist positions and
• Experience in pediatric mechanical ventilation and airway management for working in the pediatric sub-acute unit

Founded in 1910 Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 343-bed acute care nonprofit hospital. Serving over 75000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU maternity care and pediatrics and behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children.

Additionally Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been recognized with the gold seal of approval by the Joint Commission as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and rated five stars for Childrens Subacute Center by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 2025 we were voted Best Hospital by Inland Empire Magazine.

Community Hospital of San Bernardino shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health one of the nations largest health care systems dedicated to providing compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care.

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