Respiratory Therapist (per diem)

Position Responsibilities

• Verify all physician orders for respiratory care.
• Provide age and developmental-appropriate care to infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
• Assess patients clinically and evaluate for appropriateness of therapy.
• Provide aerosolized medication therapy, provide airway clearance therapies, airway management such as trach changes, tube taping, suctioning, medical gas therapy.
• Airway management including ventilator setup and management.
• Airway management including non-invasive monitoring, i.e., pulse oximetry, transcutaneous O2/CO2 and end-tidal CO2 monitoring, assist with in-house and inter-facility transports.
• Provide emergency respiratory care, i.e., airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, perform arterial blood gas sampling, point of care testing and electrocardiograms.
• Participate in airway management during bronchoscopies.
• Document care provided, patient assessment and patient care orders in electronic medical record (EMR) or hard copy when necessary.
• Enter charges in EMR.
• Participate in discharge planning and home-care education by training patients, their families, and designated care providers.
• Provide recommendations and education to physicians and nurses regarding respiratory care.
• Participate in the evaluation or respiratory care equipment and procedures and maintain current knowledge about departmental policies and procedures.

Position Requirements

• Graduated from a COAARC Approved Respiratory Care Program.
• DE State License, NBRC-RRT, and BLS-HCP required.
• AARC membership.
• PALS within 90 days of hire (preferred).
• NRP, NBRC-NPS, NBRC-CPFT, NBRC-RPFT, NBRC-SDS, AEC, and ACLS (preferred).

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.