Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel Registered Respiratory Therapist for a travel job in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Registered Respiratory Therapist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) – Knoxville, TN
Assignment Details
- Profession: Respiratory / Neuro Diagnostics
- Specialty: Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
- Start Date:09/21/2026
- Contract Length:13 Weeks
- Shift:Nights – 3×12 Hours (7:00 PM – 7:30 AM)
- Block Scheduling: Not Available
- Orientation: Bi-weekly (Auto Offer Position)
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of Respiratory Therapy experience
- First-time travelers are accepted with strong acute care experience.
- Required Work Setting Experience:
- Adult Critical Care
- Emergency Department
Required License & Certifications
- Active Tennessee Respiratory Care License
- Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
- BLS
- ACLS
- Preferred: NRP and PALS
Schedule & Facility Requirements
- Night shift (3×12)
- No block scheduling
- Local candidates are accepted less than the traveler bill rate
Required Clinical Skills
Candidates should have experience with:
- Adult Critical Care
- Emergency Department
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Arterial Punctures
- Drawing & Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
- Ventilator Management
- BiPAP
- CPAP
- Bronchoscopy
- High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
- Nebulizer Therapy
- Oxygen Therapy
- In-Hospital Patient Transport
Required Equipment & Procedures
Experience with the following is required:
- AeroEclipse & Aerobika Flutter Valve Nebulizer Systems
- Chest Percussion Therapy
- Bedside Parameters (FVC/NIF) for Neurology Patients
- V60 BiPAP
- Comfort Flow Heated High-Flow Nasal Cannula
- Transport Ventilators
- GlideScope Intubation System
- Bronchoscopy System
- Puritan Bennett 980 Ventilators
- Bedside Bronchoscopies
- Percutaneous Tracheostomy
- Radiometer ABL90 Flex Blood Gas Analyzer
- Nebulized Epoprostenol Therapy
- HeliOx Therapy
Time-Off (RTO) Policy
Holiday or holiday-week RTO requests will not be approved prior to the assignment. After arriving onsite, travelers may discuss holiday scheduling directly with the manager using the facility's RTO request process.
Restricted Holiday Periods Include:
- Valentine's Day
- Local Spring Break
- Easter
- Mother's Day
- Memorial Day
- Father's Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Local Fall Break
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year's
Important Notes
- Auto Offer Position – qualified candidates may receive an expedited offer.
- Full compliance must be completed before the scheduled orientation date.
- Please carefully review all submission requirements before applying.
Auto Offer
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Knoxville, TN |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Critical Careunmatched
- Emergency Careunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Neurologyunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)unmatched
- Respiratory Medicineunmatched
- Respiratory Therapyunmatched
- Tracheotomyunmatched
- Ventilatorunmatched
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