Senior Respiratory Care Practitioner RRT - Flagstaff

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive respiratory care services to patients across all age groups and acuity levels.
• Assesses, treats, and manages patients with acute and chronic cardiopulmonary disorders.
• Performs advanced respiratory procedures, including mechanical ventilation management, arterial blood gas analysis, and airway management, utilizing advanced modes of ventilation.
• Ensures VAP protocol compliance.
• Operates specialty equipment: Nitric Oxide delivery systems.
• Completes all billing paperwork.
• Demonstrates timely and accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses.
• Performs lead responsibilities in the absence of the lead Respiratory Therapist.
• Captures and distributes daily staffing assignments and manages workflow distribution.
• Addresses and resolves operational issues and staff concerns during assigned shifts.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for interdisciplinary teams and hospital administration.
• Makes critical decisions regarding resource allocation and patient prioritization.

Competency Support

• Aids in the development, implementation, and evaluation of competency assessments.
• Conducts hands-on competency validation for respiratory therapy staff.
• Identifies knowledge or skill gaps and provides targeted education and remediation.
• Maintains documentation of competency assessments per department standards.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for interdisciplinary teams and hospital administration.

Precepting and Education

• Orients and trains new respiratory therapists during their onboarding period.
• Develops and implements individualized learning plans for orientees.
• Provides ongoing mentorship and clinical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Collaborates with the education department to ensure the successful completion of orientation programs.

Quality Support Activities

• Participates in quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives.
• Conducts chart audits to ensure compliance with documentation standards and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews and analyzes clinical practice patterns and outcomes.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and best practice implementation.
• Collaborates with leadership to develop corrective action plans when needed.

Equipment Care

• Assembles and disassembles, operates and maintains, troubleshoots, cleans, and performs minor repairs on equipment.
• Educates patients on therapies and prescribed medications/therapy given prior to discharge while documenting patient understanding.

Compliance/Safety

• Reports any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the SER tool.
• Attends all safety-related training programs, performs work safely.
• Monitors work environment for possible safety issues, and ensures others are also safely performing work.
• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Practices in a safe and cost-effective manner.

Qualifications

• Education: Associate's Degree from an AMA Respiratory Therapy Program - Required; Bachelor's Degree - preferred.
• Certification & Licensures: Licensed by the Arizona Board of Respiratory Care Examiners - Required; National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC), Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) - Required; BLS, ACLS, PALS - Required; NRP - Required within 90 days from date of hire and/or providing care in a special care nursery.
• Experience: 2 years of acute care experience - Required.