Respiratory Therapy Aide - Respiratory Therapy - Per Diem

About the role

Perform blood gas analysis. Inventory Respiratory Therapy equipment. Clean Respiratory Therapy/Bronchoscopy equipment. Deliver medical gas tanks/change tank banks.

Responsibilities

• Performs functions under supervision of a Registered Respiratory Therapist
• Performs blood gas analysis
• Effectively recognizes equipment functionality status and appropriately troubleshoots equipment
• Performs blood gas quality control procedures and documents results appropriately
• Delivers medical gas tanks to hospital units
• Switches and changes tank banks in tank room, as well as large cylinders in other areas of hospital as needed
• Inventories disposable equipment in Respiratory Therapy Department and ICU storeroom and replaces as needed
• Disassembles, cleans and reassembles Respiratory Therapy equipment
• Exchange disposable set ups as needed
• O2 tanks and regulators (transporting, storage, changing regulators)
• Home O2 tank delivery
• Inventory of Respiratory Therapy Equipment
• Prep ventilators for use
• Restock respiratory stock rooms/areas
• Handwashing Audits
• Charges for Oxygen ‐ validate with finance/regulatory

Education, License & Cert

• High school graduate with the ability to work well with patients and accurately with numbers
• One semester of college biology, chemistry, and advanced algebra preferred

Experience

• One year of allied health experience preferred