Registered Respiratory Therapist-Respiratory Therapy-Per Diem-Night-Mount Sinai Queens
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Registered Respiratory Therapist-Respiratory Therapy-Per Diem-Night-Mount Sinai Queens
The Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP) is a NY State Licensed Professional who is fully qualified in the standard skills of his/her profession and can demonstrate acceptable levels of knowledge and skills to perform efficiently and safely. An RCP interacts with the interdisciplinary team, as well as the staff of the medical, clinical and operations teams to provide care and service to the patient population of the hospital. The RCP observes all HIPAA and regulatory agency rules and regulations, practices the Hospitals Service Standards and supports the Customer Service Goals of MSQ.
Responsibilities
- Receives/Gives shift report to include but not limited to: Updates, ventilator management, blood gas lab, equipment condition & location, and any pending work. Report sick calls and or lateness calls received. Waits to ensure that all incoming personnel are present.
- Performs all aerosolized therapy in a timely efficient manner. This includes placing equipment bag at the patient's bedside.
- Performs all oxygen/humidity in a timely and efficient manner. This includes pulse oximeter reading pre/post administration of therapy. Refills humidifier bottles when water levels are low.
- Performs patient assessment completely and accurately. Reporting adverse reactions to medications, reports patient's condition to physician, nurse and department manager.
- Signs Respiratory Therapy Prescription Form acknowledging receipt and completeness of order and placing this form in the patients chart. Fills in ALL information on Patient Treatment & Ventilator Cardex, Oxygen Record, Bedside Treatment Record and Patient Assessment including peak flow reading. Charts pulse oximeter reading and incentive spirometry assignments in the progress notes. Charts Ventilator & BIPAP rounds every 3-4 hours, omitting no information on the flow sheet.
- Give- instructions to patients/family on all aspects of respiratory care. Completes and signs Patient Treatments Record, gives out information handouts when indicated.
- Blood Gas Laboratory: Ensures that daily maintenance is done and notifying the supervisor of any problems. Completes all information in Rapid-link. Process arterial blood gas stats. Maintains the area neat & clean. Logs rejected samples in the Communication Log Book.
- Responsible for the operation, maintenance and management of mechanical ventilators. Cleans; sets-up and tests ventilators in the absence of an equipment technician. Changes circuits in the accordance to department policy, ensures one-way safety valves are in place for nebulizer use. Wipes down ventilators weekly with approved hospital disinfected. Ensures that stand-by ventilators are in place in the emergency room ct-scan RR, and ICU.
- Performs artificial airway management, intubates patients, suctions patients as needed; replaces soiled trac-ties and changes Ballard closed suction catheters on a weekly basis. Auscultations of chest to assure proper airway placement. Assists MD in performing patient bronchoscopy. Assists Speech Therapist with the Passy-Muir device on ventilator trach. patients. Provides trach care to all ventilator tracheostomy patients on a daily basis. Provides sputum induction to all patients as ordered by the physician.
- Performs arterial punctures (radial or brachial site) in order to obtain a patients blood gas sample.
- Education: Graduate of an accredited program of Respiratory Therapy preferred. AS or BS degree preferred.
- Experience: One year critical care experience preferred.
- License/Certification: Must have a New York license to practice and be registered by the NBRC. BLS certification required. ACLS preferred
SEIU Local 144 at Mount Sinai Queens, 400 - Respiratory Therapy - MSQ, Mount Sinai Queens
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The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."
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