Job Summary: The Respiratory Therapist is responsible for providing direct patient care relating to respiratory illness and diseases in all areas serviced by Respiratory Therapy including neonatal, infant, children, adolescent, adult and/or geriatric populations.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:
- Administers routine respiratory therapy procedures per physician orders.
- Maintains artificial airways, assist with intubation, tracheostomy change and decannulation.
- Performs arterial puncture and analysis.
- Assist with cleaning, sterilization and reassembly of equipment.
- Initiates, monitors and maintains continuous mechanical ventilation per physician orders.
- Performs cardio pulmonary resuscitation and other emergency respiratory therapy procedures as necessary.
- Documents respiratory therapy procedures per policy in the patient medical record.
- Provides instruction to patients on the respiratory therapy modalities ordered by their physician.
- Evaluates patient's clinical conditions and provides suggestions and recommendations for therapeutic procedures to meet patient treatment process.
- Assists with chart audits and quality improvement reviews.
- Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned