Respiratory Therapy Manager

Patient Care

• Administers all modes of respiratory care modalities according to the hospital P&P.
• Completes/document patient care assessment and response to therapy.
• Performs routine maintenance, and safety biomed checks according to manufacturers and departmental procedures.
• Implement respiratory and medical orders and assures they are appropriate to the patient’s current status.
• Affords assistance to physicians with special tests and procedures.
• Affords assistance and reporting to CQI monitors and audits for CAP survey.
• Provides emotional support and appropriate teaching to patient and families.
• Recognizes early and subtle changes in patient condition and intervenes to prevent further deterioration of patient status.
• Initiates life support measures and performs effectively during emergency/crisis situations.
• Acts as liaison between physicians, staff, patients, family members, administration and other departments.

Management

• Delegates unit tasks.
• Resolves team conflict.
• Applies team-building skills and develops self-directed teams.
• Assists in new employee orientation teaching customer service goals, efficiency, and accountability and conflict resolution.
• Identifies poor and positive performance and acts as first line coach providing feedback and counseling.
• Keeps staff informed by frequent communication of policy changes, organizational goals, customer service issues, and department performance issues.
• Participates in development of budgets that reflect appropriate expenditures for personnel, supplies, and equipment.
• Assists in taking action to correct variances.
• Assists in maintaining productivity guidelines.
• Assists case managers in discharge planning (from a resource consumption perspective) with respiratory therapy.
• Provides a mechanism for cost effective ordering and organizing supplies, tracking and storing equipment and keeping department clean and orderly.
• Assists in continuous survey readiness in compliance with regulatory agencies.
• Assists staff in developing solutions and supports.
• Interprets and implements organizational goals.
• Assists in developing standards of care consistent with local and national standards.
• Identifies and prioritizes what needs to be done in terms of patient care and department tasks.
• Estimates patient workloads and ensures staffing reflects workloads.
• Participates in interviews and staff selection and matches clinical skills, flexibility and personality to unit needs.
• Assists in setting performance and behavior standards and in evaluating performance.
• Completes department staffing for 24-hour period including weekdays, weekends, and holidays.
• Provides data, information and reports in a timely manner.
• Assists with long-term staff plans.
• Completes work schedules and posts in timely manner.

Problem Solving

• Identifies, proposes solutions, and assists in implementation of ideas for improvements in patient care and department/hospital operations.
• Participates in the successful implementation of changes.
• Identifies and takes steps to eliminate unnecessary patient interventions and diagnostic studies.
• Identifies opportunities and implements strategies to decrease waste in supplies, equipment and linen use.
• Assists staff in identifying patient problems and making good patient care decisions.
• Directs staff in maintaining a safe environment and customer satisfaction when staffing or resources need to be stretched.
• Analyzes a complex problem or project and is able to identify the consequences of various solutions.
• Participates in hospital wide process improvement activities.