Respiratory Therapist - Neo/Peds (Flex/PRN)

What You'll Help Transform

Transform Healthcare here. Here's your opportunity to work in a challenging and impactful environment defined by compassion, innovation, and a deep commitment to your personal well-being and professional development.

About the Role

As a Registered Respiratory Therapist on our team, you will deliver the best therapeutic, diagnostic, and life-support respiratory care procedures in general and intensive patient care areas, or home care environments.

Responsibilities

• Affirms patient care through assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care in order to achieve optimum patient outcomes for patients of all ages as appropriate to service area.
• Completes age-specific ongoing assessments, documents them, and uses them to develop a plan of care.
• Collaborates with members of the healthcare team/patient/family to develop, implement, and evaluate an age-specific interdisciplinary plan of care. Revise the plan according to changes in patient status.
• Accurately administers and documents treatments and medications for patients of all ages.
• Identifies and incorporates patient/family (caregiver) educational needs into the plan of care and documents appropriately.
• Participates in performance improvement programs by obtaining desired outcomes.
• Demonstrates continuous learning and professional development through participation in educational activities and completing annual competency validation.
• Exhibits clinical expertise in rapidly changing circumstances.
• Plans strategies to reduce length of stay, turn around time, resource consumption, and improve patient outcomes.
• Functions as a role model for clinical practice to coworkers, students, and physicians.
• Manages resources, establishes priorities, and modifies the environment to meet patient care needs.
• Completes manager/director predetermined projects within specified time frames and according to pre-established guidelines.
• Solves problems to resolve patient and personnel situations that arise in the work area.
• Assists with providing educational activities for the respiratory care department, other hospital departments, and the community.

Requirements

• Education: Associate degree and/or certification from a CoARC (Committee on Accreditation of Respiratory Care Education) approved school of respiratory therapy.
• Licensure: Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner by the VA State Board of Medicine. Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) by the National Board for Respiratory Care.
• Minimum Qualifications: Effective interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills required. Must successfully complete orientation and competency validation for position. Ability to obtain BLS within 3 months of employment in this position or as determined by department. Some areas may require ACLS, NRP, PALS certification within one year of employment.

Qualifications

• Experience: Not specified.

Skills

• Effective interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Knowledge of growth and development to appropriately care for patients served.
• Ability to apply knowledge of clinical pathways to support evidence-based, quality patient care service and performance improvement.
• Problem-solving skills to facilitate resolution to patient and personnel situations.

Benefits

Referral Bonus Program Eligibility: Yes

Pay

Employee pay is based on a variety of factors, including qualifications, credentials, education, and prior work experience. The compensation range does not include benefits or pension plan. For more information, contact the HR Service Center at 1-800-599-2537.

Schedule

Any Day, Any Shift (United States of America)