Registered Respiratory Therapist
1 month ago
Job Summary
Performs all respiratory therapy patient modalities prescribed under a physician's order. Assigned primarily to the ICU.
Job Specific Duties
- Assesses patients in terms of clinical condition (heart rate, respiratory rate, etc.) and documents findings (Pre/Post therapy) in an accurate and timely manner. Provides feedback to physician(s).
- Ensures proper communication between physicians and families. Serves as a patient advocate/educator and provides family support and community resources.
- Provides patient information and effectively completes hand off process to peers using SBAR at shift change and patient reassignments.
- Provides education to patients/families on the continuing plan of care to include medications and side effects; updates patients/families daily on Plan of Care (POC)
- Participates in Lean initiative to assess and improve processes for opportunities to deliver higher quality, cost effective care, with greater customer service as measured by metrics.
- Participates in rounds with medical team and discusses initial (new) and follow up cases with MD and documents note.
- Serves as backup for all emergency codes (blue, rapid response, code orange).
- Performs and tests invasive and non-invasive ventilators, initiates therapy, and monitors patient/ ventilator. Ensures ventilator is working and documents equipment settings.
- Performs basic respiratory therapy for medical/surgical patients such as aerosol delivery, airway clearance, and chest physiotherapy.
- Participates in root cause analysis with any unplanned extubations.
- Performs all Quality Assurance on equipment and reports any malfunction. Removes equipment and documents if equipment failure impacted patient outcomes. Completes incident report and tags equipment.
- Follows all Infection Control standards and ensures proper use of Personal Protective Equipment per hospital policy and procedures to ensure safe patient care.
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