Respiratory Care Practitioner

Job description

Overview When every breath counts and every heartbeat matters, you are there. As a Respiratory Care Practitioner, your expertise plays a vital role in the care of adult, geriatric, pediatric, and neonatal patients. Your commitment to excellence directly impacts lives—and through your work, you help fulfill Legacy’s mission of making life better for others . Responsibilities: Performs respiratory therapy, ventilator management, EKGs, and serves on the code team. Additional responsibilities may include exercise stress testing and pulmonary function testing. All duties are performed according to physician orders, applying clinical knowledge, skill, and judgment to ensure safe and effective patient care. The Respiratory Care Practitioner provides care for adult, geriatric, pediatric, and neonatal patients , delivering respiratory support and performing technical procedures as an integral member of the healthcare team. - COMPETENCY: Achieves and maintains advanced level clinical skills necessary to care for critical patients. - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WORKLOAD: Performs cardiopulmonary procedures using the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the age of patients (neonate,...