Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel Registered Respiratory Therapist for a travel job in Washington, District of Columbia.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Registered Respiratory Therapist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Start Date: 08/24/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) – NICU/PICU | Washington, DC
Openings: 5
Assignment Details
- Specialty: RRT – NICU/PICU
- Contract Length:13 Weeks(Option to extend up to 26 weeks upon request during the interview)
- Shift: Days – 3×12 Hours (7:00 AM – 7:30 PM)
- Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours/week (Up to 48 hours available; overtime applies after 48 hours.)
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of Respiratory Therapy experience required.
- NICU/PICU experience preferred.
- Pediatric experience strongly preferred.
- 3+ years of recent experience is strongly preferred for first-time travelers.
- Local candidates are accepted at the travel rate.
Required License & Certifications
- DC Respiratory Care License(Pending license accepted; processing time is approximately 6–8 weeks.)
- Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
- BLS
- PALS
- NRP preferred
Charting System
- Cerner preferred
Schedule & Facility Requirements
- 3 or 4 shifts per week
- Every other weekend required
- No on-call requirement
- Floating required within the hospital and within scope of practice (no floating to sister facilities)
- Block scheduling is not available
Time-Off (RTO) Policy
- Maximum 3 shifts for a 13-week contract
- Maximum 8 shifts for a 26-week contract
- If requesting one full week (7 days) off, the contract must be extended by one additional week.
No RTO will be approved during the following periods:
- August 31 – September 6
- November 23 – November 29
- December 21 – January 3
Required Clinical Skills
Candidates should have experience with:
- NICU and Pediatric Critical Care
- Emergency Department
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Ventilator Management
- CPAP/BiPAP
- High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
- Airway Management & Suctioning
- Extubation
- Aerosol & Nebulizer Therapy
- Oxygen Therapy
- Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
- Tracheostomy Care & Management
- Pediatric Respiratory Care
Preferred experience includes:
- Adult Critical Care
- High-Frequency Oscillator Ventilation
- Nitric Oxide (iNO)
- Inhaled Flolan
- Bronchoscopy
- Trauma
- Umbilical Blood Gases
- Basic EKG
- Troubleshooting High-Pressure Alarms
- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
Facility Highlights
- Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
- Teaching & Magnet Hospital
- 323 Inpatient Beds
- 70-Bed NICU
- Charting System: Cerner
- Scrubs: Any solid color (No logos; child-friendly attire required)
Parking
- Night Shift: On-site parking – $70/month
- Day Shift: Off-site parking – $35/month
- Day/Night Rotation: Off-site parking – $35/month
- Day Shift Only:$50/month
Additional Information
- Required onboarding modules average 20+ hours and are not billable.
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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 | Washington, DC |
| 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
- Aerosolsunmatched
- Cernerunmatched
- Critical Careunmatched
- Electrocardiogramunmatched
- Emergency Careunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)unmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Oscillatorunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)unmatched
- Pediatricsunmatched
- Respiratory Medicineunmatched
- Respiratory Therapyunmatched
- Tracheotomyunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Ventilatorunmatched
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