Childrens Hybrid Transport Respiratory Therapist

Responsible For

• Provides emergency care for acutely ill neonatal and pediatric patients in collaboration with the medical team.
• Practices in accordance with the philosophy, policies, procedures, and standards of the organization and functions within the guidelines of the Transport program protocols.
• Provides family-centered care, including psychosocial support, education, and transfer planning in conjunction with referral staff.
• Maintains effective communication with referral staff and families.
• Participates in educating staff from referring facilities through informal teaching and planned educational classes and/or conferences.
• Performs hemodynamic procedures such as arterial cannulation, assembly, calibration, maintenance, CVP/pulmonary artery catheter insertion, calibration, maintenance, cardiac output, and hemodynamic/cardiopulmonary profiles.
• Maintains transport supplies and equipment, documents and posts/charges for procedures accurately, assists with clinical instruction, practices standard precautions, enforces safety regulations, and provides a timely response time for all transports as per quality metrics.
• Transports neonatal patients to nursery or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) safely and efficiently.
• Completes appropriate transport training regimen and supervised orientation transports as directed by the Departments of EMS Ground and Flight Medicine and/or Respiratory Care.
• Utilizes Medivac-Aircraft/Vehicular Dynamics effectively during transport.
• Initiates process improvement ideas proactively and assists with clinical instruction and precepting.
• Documents and charges for procedures accurately, thoroughly, and within the timeframe set by unit policy.
• Performs necessary diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including ABG puncture and analysis, medicated aerosol therapies, bronchial hygiene therapies, lung expansion therapies, routine oxygen delivery, intubation, airway management, suctioning, conventional ventilator management, HFV, nitric oxide, and CPR during Code Blue emergencies.
• Performs airway maintenance, including manual resuscitators, oral and nasal pharyngeal airway insertion, intubations/extubations, tracheostomy insertions and changes, bronchoscopy assistance, airway suctioning, and procedural respiratory support.
• Utilizes patient assessment skills, protocols, chart review, and multidisciplinary team collaboration to determine therapy efficacy.
• Performs respiratory therapies and oxygen delivery per protocol.
• Obtains, analyzes, and reports blood gases and co-oximetry findings, and performs quality controls as needed.
• Initiates, maintains, transports, and monitors mechanical ventilators, including conventional and non-conventional modes of ventilation and transport ventilation.

Qualifications

• State Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
• National Board of Certification and Recertification for Respiratory Therapists (NBRC) Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Cert (PALS)
• Basic Life Support - CPR Cert (BLS)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Cert (ACLS)
• Neonatal Pediatric Transport (C-NPT)

Education

• Associate [Required]
• Bachelor's [Preferred]
• Field Of Study in Respiratory Therapy or Cardiopulmonary Science

Experience

• 1+ pediatric critical care experience [Required]
• 1+ requires a minimum of 2,000 hours of neonatal icu experience (per florida state rule 64j) [Required]

Physical Requirements

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Pay Range

$26.08 - $48.50