Respiratory Therapist - Nights

Select Specialty Hospital - Nashville West
  • Nashville, Tennessee
  • $42 Per Hour
26 days ago

Job Description

Overview:

Position: Respiratory Therapist (RT) 

Location: Nashville, TN

Schedule: Full-Time Nights, 12-Hour Shifts
Compensation:
Up to $42 per hour, based on years of experience

Sign-On Bonus: $12,000

 

Our hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Respiratory Therapists (RT) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.

 

 

Why Join Us:

  • Start Strong: Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
  • Advance Your Career: Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities
  • Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder program.
  • Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program
  • Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO  and Paid Sick Time for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
  • Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP) and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
  • Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
  • Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care.
Responsibilities:

 

  • Evaluating patients and recommending an appropriate treatment plan.
  • Providing respiratory care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions.
  • Performing insertion and removal of endotracheal tubes.
  • Promoting continuous quality improvement.
  • Teaching and counseling patients/families.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:

 

Minimum requirements:

  • Must possess "Active" CRT or RRT credential from the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) or state equivalent.
  • Proof of graduation required: college transcript/diploma (preferred) or high school transcript/diploma or GED.
  • Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
  • Current state licensure is required.
  • ACLS is required upon hire. (Agency RT must have ACLS upon first shift)

Preferred qualifications:

  • One (1) year of related experience is preferred.
Additional Data:

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Numbers & Facts

LocationNashville, Tennessee

Skills

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
  • Chronic Diseaseunmatched
  • Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
  • High School Diplomaunmatched
  • Hospitalunmatched
  • Intensive Careunmatched
  • Medical Conditionsunmatched
  • Paint Shop Pro Tubesunmatched
  • Patient Assessmentunmatched
  • Patient Careunmatched
  • Patient Educationunmatched
  • Respiratory Therapyunmatched
  • Training/Teachingunmatched
  • Treatment Planunmatched
  • Tuition Reimbursementunmatched

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