Respiratory Therapist - PRN/PT

Essential Duties

• Receive and follow schedule/instructions from your supervisor and as outlined in our established policies and procedures.
• Adhere to established policies and procedures of the facility to which the respiratory care practitioner is assigned.
• Perform focused interviews to identify specific patients’ needs.
• Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret data and information from healthcare members and document actual and/or potential diagnoses.
• Plan for outcomes of care for those patients assigned.
• Perform interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standards.
• Adhere to emergency, safety, and infection control procedures of the facility to which the respiratory care practitioner is assigned.
• Promote and participate in activities to facilitate good interpersonal communications.
• Report changes in the patient’s respiratory status to the Director/Supervisor of Respiratory Care Services, the nurse primarily responsible for the patient, and the physician, as needed, and prior to leaving the facility.
• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter-department personnel, as well as other departments within the facility.
• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Assume the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability of performing the assigned duties of this position.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information.
• Report known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information.

Qualification

• Must possess, as a minimum, an Associate Degree from an accredited school.
• Must be a Graduate of a respiratory care program.
• Bachelor of Science degree in the health care field preferred.
• Minimum of one (1) year respiratory experience in an acute and/or subacute unit preferred.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
• Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.