Respiratory Therapist II - PER_DIEM - 12 Hour Nights

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Job Responsibilities

• The Respiratory Therapist II is an RCP who performs general ward therapy procedures including: 02 therapy, bland aerosol therapy, medicinal aerosol therapy, volume expansion therapy, bronchial hygiene procedures, CPR.
• You will also perform Adult Critical Care RT procedures including: setup and management of continuous invasive and non-invasive ventilator systems, specialty gases, and related monitoring and encouraging adjuncts.
• Training in of performance of Arterial Puncture for Blood Gas Analysis is required.
• You may pursue additional training in all "subspecialty services" provided by the CSMC Respiratory Care Services to include: management of Perinatal/ Pediatric Ventilator Systems and related adjuncts; Bronchoscopy Assist; Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center RT procedures; RT Order Entry System Operation.
• Once training is complete, a RT is encouraged to function as assigned in the subspecialty areas in which they have been trained and adjudged functionally proficient.

• Additional primary duties and responsibilities that are only performed in the specific department(s) below: Pulmonary Function lab:
• Schedules patient testing.
• Verifies MD orders and diagnosis-based indications for testing.
• Ensures pre-test pulmonary history and consent for exercise testing are complete, explains the purpose and side effects of ordered tests to patients.
• Performs pulmonary function tests, exercise tests, arterial puncture.