Registered Respiratory Therapist - Palm Bay

About the position

The position involves providing No Harm / Quality, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by demonstrating clinical proficiency in adult and/or neonatal critical care areas. The individual must have a thorough understanding of all respiratory care modalities and be capable of making judgment decisions and recommendations to physicians regarding these modalities. The role also requires evaluating techniques and reporting findings to the responsible physician while displaying ICARE Values in accordance with the Health First Mission and Vision.

Responsibilities

• Maintains equipment in good working order and troubleshoots when necessary; reports all malfunctioning equipment to appropriate area/associate with documentation of problem.
• Thorough documentation, including patient care, interdisciplinary Plan of Care, patient education, and charges appropriately for care provided.
• Gives report to oncoming shift on all patients and procedures, and assures completion of workload before leaving.
• Medication safety- removes only one patient's medication at a time from Pyxis system.
• Patient identification- Uses Pyxis med slip to appropriately identify two patient identifiers.
• Hand-off communication - reads back/verifies all verbal and telephone orders, reports patient information to the appropriate associate in a timely manner, follows established approach to reporting including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions.
• Follows proper infection control procedures for care provided, and proper hand washing technique.
• Initiate and manage invasive and non-invasive ventilation per physicians' orders, including troubleshooting and discontinuation.
• Ability to perform acute and intensive care functions for the adult/pediatric patient.
• Demonstrate ability to interpret CXR for ETT, Pulmonary Artery, and IABP catheter placement, as well as the ability to interpret basic cardiac/pulmonary complications.
• Demonstrate knowledge and ability to perform emergent intubation, elective oral and nasal intubations.
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to perform arterial line insertions.
• Proficiency in SVO2 monitoring and calibrations.

Requirements

• Current license by State of Florida, Department of Health, as a Registered Respiratory Therapist.
• Must hold current AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Completion Card prior to start date and maintain.
• ACLS and PALS are required within 90 days of start date and maintained.
• Certification(s) as required by specific unit.
• Must have good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must have good organizational and prioritizing skills.