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Respiratory Therapist

4 months ago

Boston, United States Partners Healthcare System Full time

We're offering a generous sign-on bonus ($10,000) to welcome you to our team. Recognizing and valuing exceptional talent, we're eager to discuss the exciting details of this bonus during our interview process.

Staff Respiratory Therapist, 36hr Night shift

An exciting opportunity to join our night shift intubation team, that provides airway support 7 nights per week.

Respiratory therapists provide treatment, evaluation, monitoring and management of patients with breathing disorders or cardiovascular problems.

Care provided by respiratory therapists may include: administration of oxygen, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, chest physical therapy, management of mechanical ventilators, administering drugs to the lungs, monitoring cardiopulmonary systems and measuring lung function.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Determines respiratory treatment goals in consultation with physicians, nurses, and by prescription

2. Delivers and assesses responses to ordered therapy to be sure it is restoring patient's pulmonary function.

3. Administers prescribed doses of aerosol drugs

4. Utilizes various types of oxygen and other therapeutic gas equipment such as masks, BIPAP/CPAP, ventilators per hospital policy

5. Administers Respiratory Therapy by performing various techniques of bronchopulmonary drainage, such as percussion/vibration, Acapella, incentive spirometry

6. Monitors physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes

7. Educate patients and family members on a variety of topics such as correct MDI or aerosol use, smoking cessation, and other respiratory equipment

8. Assists in educating students

9. Ability to perform arterial blood gas puncture

10. Respond to Code Blue, stat calls, and be a member of RRT (Rapid Response Team)

11. Assist with endotracheal intubation

12. Extubate patients per order

13. Maintain the integrity of the patient-ventilator system by proper airway management, measure ventilator volumes and pressures, obtain ventilator mechanics (RSBI, Raw, spontaneous RR and minute volume, NIF)

14. Be an active member of the critical care team in meeting patient's goals by attending rounds, giving pertinent patient information and offering suggestions.

15. Be a team player both on the floors and in the ICU to meet best patient goals and needs

16. Assist and direct treatments given by CRTs and those with limited licenses.

17. Assist with the orientation of new employees

18. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition and general acceptance of treatment.

About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 171- bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.

At Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.

* Associated Degree in Respiratory Care
* Current Massachusetts Board of Respiratory Care license
* Registered Respiratory Therapist
* Current BLS certification
* ACLS Required. Must be obtained within first 90 days of employment
* PALS Required. Must be obtained within first 90 days of employment.
* 1 Year experience is preferred.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

* Staff adheres to all C.A.R.E. Standards
* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; participating in professional societies.
* Perform yearly departmental competencies in a timely fashion.
* Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
* Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
* Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate actions in volatile situations.
* Requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, and moving equipment.
* Provides age and culturally appropriate care.
* Is in compliance with College of American Pathologists, CMS and Joint Commission standards and regulations. To include:
* Yearly competency for blood gas analysis
* CAP requirements for transportation of specimens



WORKING CONDITIONS:

Respiratory therapists are on their feet walking and working the majority of the time. They push ventilators which are on wheels to different locations. They perform chest physical therapy on patients and assist during CPR, sometimes performing the cardiac compressions. Therapists typically work three 12-hour shifts and take turns covering weekend and holidays.