Respiratory Therapist
2 weeks ago
We are seeking a skilled Respiratory Therapist to join our team at Northwell Health. As a Respiratory Therapist, you will be responsible for assessing patients' physiologic health status, conducting patient interviews, and explaining policies and procedures to patients and their families.
Responsibilities- Assess patients' gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and neurological health status.
- Determine patients' mobility, sensory deficits, prostheses use, and skin condition, and adjust the plan of care accordingly.
- Assess patients' level of pain and pain management.
- Communicate and document patients' physiologic health status and plan of care.
- Elicit patients' perception of medical/nursing care and their expectations of care.
- Determine patients' coping mechanisms, knowledge level, and ability to comprehend.
- Identify cultural/ethnic requirements to reduce anxiety and ensure patient satisfaction.
- Communicate and document patients' psychological status and care plan, support group, counseling services, and social services.
- Develop criteria for measuring patient outcomes.
- Identify actual and potential patient problems.
- Identify patients' need for teaching based on psychosocial and developmental assessment.
- Develop patient outcome statements and establish individualized patient goals.
- Identify care activities and establish priorities necessary to achieve expected outcomes.
- Coordinate the cost-effective use of supplies, equipment, and medication to achieve expected outcomes.
- Document the plan of care and collaborate with physicians and other health team members.
- Maintain constant vigilance over patients' care to ensure safety precautions and needs are followed.
- Exercise professional skills related to the plan of care.
- Reassess patients as needed and revise the plan of care accordingly.
- Correctly administer prescribed treatments.
- Correctly use equipment necessary for patient care.
- Provide emotional support to patients and their families.
- Apply scientific principles in performing procedures, carry them out safely, timely, and efficiently.
- Make accurate observations of patients' conditions during treatments/procedures, report, and record as appropriate.
- Keep accurate documentation of patients' treatment, activity, and condition, as well as patients' responses to medical and nursing interventions.
- Use appropriate methods of documentation according to departmental policy.
- Act rapidly and effectively during any emergency situation, managing self, patients, and other employees.
- Provide a calm, quiet, restful atmosphere, communicate effectively with patients' families or caretakers.
- Participate in planning for discharge and coordinate referrals as appropriate.
- Provide discharge instructions to patients and their families.
- Demonstrate ability to measure effectiveness of care provided and document same.
- Perform variance analysis related to outcome data for performance improvement.
- Design, implement, and evaluate systems to improve care in the unit.
- Keep accurate documentation of patients' treatment, activity, and condition.
- Use appropriate methods of documentation according to departmental policy.
- Collaborate with the appropriate physician on patients' plan of care.
- Accurately interpret and implement treatment regimens as prescribed by the physician.
- Assist the physician during treatments and/or diagnostic procedures.
- Keep the Patient Care Manager/designee and/or physician abreast of changes in patients' condition and/or treatments as appropriate.
- Use clinical judgment in delegating assignments to the Patient Care Associate, Support Care Associate, and Clerical Service Associate in providing patient care and ensure that assignments are completed in a timely fashion.
- Perform preventive skin care measures.
- Apply simple dressings, maintaining principles of aseptic technique.
- Apply warm and cold compresses, consistent with facility procedure.
- Perform irrigations, consistent with facility procedure.
- Perform other procedures related to skin care as necessary.
- Correctly identify medication action, dosage, side effects, and implications for the patient.
- Meet standard on medication administration examination.
- Demonstrate preparation of local solutions.
- Demonstrate preparation of I.V. drips.
- Administer and document medication correctly.
- Administer IVP medication as per department policy and procedure.
- Educate patients and their families related to drug and food interactions.
- Provide patients with an explanation of their condition as indicated.
- Communicate assessment data in an orderly fashion by recording, updating, and verbalizing pertinent information to care team members and to appropriate agencies.
- Recognize and utilize health teaching opportunities and resources/materials available for this teaching.
- Provide for early discharge planning and appropriate referrals for post-hospital care.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching by feedback from patients/families and document same.
Qualifications:
- Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. Associate's degree in nursing, required. Bachelor's degree in nursing, preferred.
- Minimum 1-2 years of professional nursing experience in the related specialty.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.
- BLS required. Other certifications required dependent upon nursing specialty.
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