Respiratory Therapist

4 days ago

Knoxville Tennessee, United States Covenant Health Full time
Job Summary

Covenant Health is seeking a skilled Respiratory Therapist to join our team in Cardiac Rehab. As a Registered Respiratory Therapist, you will provide high-quality patient care and work collaboratively with our healthcare team to ensure the best possible outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide respiratory care to patients with respiratory insufficiency and related complications.
  • Function as part of the direct patient team to provide overall quality care and serve as a resource and specialist to patients, all patient care givers, and physicians.
  • Exercise clinical judgment under the order of a licensed physician.
  • Demonstrate respiratory care competency of critical and clinical skills on an annual basis.
  • Demonstrate the ability to be flexible, handle multiple assignments, balance priorities, and make decisions quickly and function under stressful situations.
  • Demonstrate the ability to perform all aspects of respiratory therapy to include age-specific and related patient care in a safe and competent manner.
  • Demonstrate skill in emergency situations based on department standards, policies, procedures, and protocols, and assume a leadership role in emergency situations.
  • Demonstrate the ability to assess, identify, and treat patient health conditions as established by organizational and departmental policies and procedures.
  • Demonstrate the ability to make safe, effective, and competent decisions regarding individual patient care and express sound judgment.
  • Demonstrate the ability to provide appropriate communication to nursing personnel and/or physicians, and other hospital staff as necessary, and must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills on all socioeconomic levels using tact, articulation, and in a professional manner.
  • Demonstrate competency/proficiency in mechanical ventilation, CPAP, and BiPAP skills to include current modes of ventilation, indications for use, and calculations of necessary data.
  • Demonstrate competency/proficiency in the performance of arterial blood gases and analysis per department policy and procedure, quality control, troubleshooting, and quality assurance per department policy and procedures.
  • Perform assigned tasks and use equipment with skill and accuracy.
  • Participate in performance improvement activities by making suggestions for unit/organizational improvements, data collection activities, and data analysis as appropriate.
  • Documentation and charges are complete, accurate, timely, and legible, and consistently document patient assessments, reassessments, patient education, goals, response to therapy, and any other requirements for the patient medical record.
  • Complete Quality Control procedures and documentation required by regulatory agencies, medical center, and department policy.
  • Maintain all equipment in a clean and functioning order, and be responsible for the location and inventory of any RT equipment utilized on a routine basis.
  • Assist with the orientation and training of newly hired respiratory employees and the precepting of respiratory students.
  • Follow policies, procedures, and safety standards, complete required education assignments annually, work toward achieving goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
Requirements
  • Valid RRT Credential by the National Board for Respiratory Care.
  • Licensed as a registered Respiratory Therapist by the State of Tennessee Health Related Boards with ABG endorsement.
  • Current work-permit acceptable per state regulations.
  • New Registry Eligible graduates may be hired in as an RRT and will have 90 days in which to pass the NBRC RRT exam and become credentialed.
  • Current BLS.

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