Supervisor Respiratory Therapy – St. Francis Downtown

About the role

Bon Secours is a faith-based and patient-focused organization dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of individuals through exceptional patient care. The Supervisor, Respiratory Therapy plays a crucial role in overseeing the department staff and delivering respiratory care, including patient assessment, intervention, education, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Ensures respiratory care coverage for patient care areas and needs.
• Assigns respiratory care staff to work areas and/or work assignments, modifies work assignments, assists with meal coverage, fielding call-offs, and providing adequate staffing levels for the next shift.
• Maintains respiratory care operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; and identifying system improvements.
• Provides clinical instruction and/or in-service training to department staff, other healthcare team members, and students.
• Supports clinical learning through mentorship, clinical rounds, and practice evaluation, and provides clinical leadership for the advancement of professional respiratory practice to staff in various services.
• Provides feedback for coaching and performance evaluations of team members.
• Identifies quality improvement initiatives and designs programs that provide measurable outcomes. Leads clinical research initiatives ensuring education, training, and implementation of the study design.
• Participates in facility councils and committees.
• Performs procedures such as bronchoscopy, transtracheal catheter insertion, tracheotomy, and invasive monitoring.
• Conducts prescribed therapeutic procedures to achieve maintenance of a patient airway, including use of appropriate airways, maintenance of airway humidification, aspiration of secretions, extubation, and maintenance of correct ETT cuff pressures, and documents procedures in patient and department records.
• Selects, assembles, monitors, and evaluates mechanical ventilators for proper function and operation, including correction of malfunctions, cleanliness, and determines appropriateness of use for patient condition.
• May perform pulmonary function tests (PFT).
• Affirms patient's physical status by inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, patient behavior, and reviewing existing data in patient's record.
• Performs treatments according to physician orders, explains therapy and therapeutic goals to patient; modifies treatment procedures based on patient response.
• Determines appropriateness of prescribed therapy and recommends methods to physician to achieve therapeutic goals including IPPB, Aerosol therapy, Postural drainage and percussion, ultrasonic nebulizer, incentive spirometry, metered dose inhalers and spacers, etc.
• Sets up and maintains different modes of oxygen therapy, to maintain adequate PaO2’s with accurate inspired levels of oxygen.
• Administers intermittent positive pressure breathing (IPPB) or Aerosol Therapy by preparing the prescribed medication ordered by the physician and adjusting the machine or device to accomplish patient’s individual clinical needs; document and observe patient’s vital signs, productivity of cough, relief of Dyspnea, improved breath sounds, and any adverse reactions to therapy; and use judgement and technical skill to determine possible adverse reactions and suggestions for appropriateness of therapy.
• Gives postural drainage, vibration, percussion to ensure proper drainage of bronchial secretions by use of manual or mechanical percussion; check orders and X-rays for segments to be treated prior to initiating treatment; auscultation prior to and after procedure to note presence of clearance of secretions and response to therapy.
• Instructs patients and families in incentive spirometer, metered dose inhaler (MDI) administration, postural drainage and clapping, oxygen therapy, ventilator care, and home aerosol therapy.
• Procures sputum for culture and sensitivity or airway clearance either by patient coaching, administration of mucolytics, aerosol therapy, or endotracheal / nasopharyngeal suctioning.
• Evaluates normal and pathologic blood and urine laboratory value ranges.
• Performs arterial punctures and analysis; has an in-depth knowledge of analysis and arterial blood gas (ABG) interpretation. Performs arterial line procedures, takes safety precautions, sterile procedure, flushing, and ABG aspirations.
• Maintains all Respiratory Therapy equipment and supplies.
• Responds to cardio-pulmonary resuscitations and actively participates as indicated by clinical circumstances.

Requirements

• Demonstrated Clinical Competency in at least two of the following environments: Nursery/NICU, PICU, ICU/CCU, ED, and general care areas AND one year in a "charge" or leadership role.
• Current Respiratory Care License in the state they are working.
• National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) Credentialed.
• Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT).
• BLS Basic Life Support - American Heart Association.
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross.
• PALS Pediatric Advanced Life Support - American Heart Association.
• NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) - AAP/AWHONN (preferred).
• Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist (CPFT) (preferred).
• Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist (RPFT) (preferred).
• ACCS (Adult Critical Care Specialist) - NBRC (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, related to Respiratory Therapy/Healthcare/Healthcare Admin/Business Admin (preferred).
• Master's Degree, related to Health care/Healthcare Admin/Business Admin (preferred).

Skills & Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills and effective interaction with patients, their families, physicians, and other staff members.
• Effective communication skills.
• Customer service skills.
• Organizational skills and time management skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Feedback accountability.
• Knowledge of non-invasive respiratory therapy equipment such as oximeters or end-tidal CO2 analyzers.
• Therapeutic Procedures to include CPAP/BiPap, jet aerosol, oxygen therapy, incentive spirometry, chest physiotherapy, pulse oximetry, high flow oxygen, continuous aerosols, ventilator management, diagnostic testing.
• Understanding of EKGs, electronic monitoring, lead placement, and basic arrhythmias.
• Arterial blood gas punctures and testing.
• Airway maneuvers.
• Bedside pulmonary function.
• Knowledge of chest suction equipment.
• Knowledge of chest X-ray interpretation.
• Ability to train staff.
• Leadership skills.
• Listening skills.
• Logical problem-solving skills.
• Mentoring skills.
• Microsoft Office skills.
• Office equipment proficiency.
• People leadership skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Scheduling skills.
• Service orientation skills.
• Social perceptiveness skills.
• Training and development skills.
• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred).

Benefits

Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses, and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible). Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources, and discounts. Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders. Tuition assistance, professional development, and continuing education support. Benefits may vary based on the market and employment status. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.