Respiratory Therapist Specialist

1 month ago


Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States Partners HealthCare Full time
About Us:

Cooley Dickinson Health Care, a member of the Mass General Brigham system, is a leading healthcare provider in western Massachusetts, dedicated to advancing healthcare since 1886.

Our network comprises over 2,000 medical professionals and support staff, operating at our main Hospital campus in Northampton and additional locations in twelve towns throughout the Pioneer Valley, covering Hampshire and Franklin counties.


Main Function:
The Respiratory Therapist performs various technical duties to administer respiratory therapy treatments to assigned patients, ensuring their optimal care and comfort.

This position is part of the 1199SEIU Bargaining Unit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, operating within established organizational and departmental policies and procedures.

Essential Job Functions:
1. Set up, apply, and administer therapy as directed, using a complete range of respiratory equipment, carefully controlling factors such as respiratory ratio, pressure, volume, percentage of oxygen, and other gases, administering aerosol medications, and continuously monitoring patients' conditions.2. Perform pulmonary consultations and make recommendations for modes of therapy, frequency, medication, and duration as requested, evaluating the effectiveness of therapy by auscultation, laboratory tests, clinical observation, and reporting significant changes to attending physicians and supervisors.3. Perform basic bedside pulmonary testing, advanced pulmonary function testing in the pulmonary function laboratory using highly technical and complex equipment to measure volumes, flows, diffusion rates, and metabolic oxygen requirements, and techniques used in blood gas analysis.4. Oversee the training of all new personnel rotating through the Blood Gas Laboratory, perform basic sleep studies, and maintain required records, charts, etc., recording treatments given and as needed, preparing charges for submission to accounting.5. Assist in setting up and maintaining quality control standards and programs within the department, provide direction, assistance, and guidance to assigned personnel, and participate as an instructor in teaching basic respiratory therapy procedures and routines to other hospital staff who have occasion to handle respiratory equipment.6. Assist supervisory personnel in orientation and further training of new personnel, provide education to patients on disease processes, breathing, medications, and use of home respiratory therapy equipment when requested by physician or nursing, and provide emergency assistance such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.7. Assist in reconditioning and maintenance of routine therapy equipment, maintain, calibrate, and repair highly specialized diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, such as blood gas analyzers, computerized pulmonary function and gas analyzers, and follow all organizational and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, confidentiality, quality improvement program, compliance, safety, infection control, environmental standards, and information management systems standards of use.8. Maintain professional growth and development through attendance at seminars, workshops, conferences or in-services, professional affiliations or journals to stay abreast of current trends in the field of expertise and to fulfill all national and state CE requirements, meet annual competency and retraining requirements, and attend meetings as required.
What We Offer:
Cooley Dickinson Health Care offers a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth and development, and a commitment to excellence in patient care.
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