Respiratory Therapy Coordinator - Respiratory Therapy - Full Time

Job description

Position Summary: Performs with minimal supervision, therapeutic procedures to include oxygen and other medical gas therapy/administration, administration of aerosolized medications through established modalities, implements and monitors established departmental protocols and/or organizational clinical pathways, patient assessment (chest auscultation, oximetry, pulse, respiration’s, blood pressure, clinical and subjective observations), diagnostic procedures (arterial puncture, pulmonary function testing, end‐tidal CO2 monitoring, ECG), CPAP and NPPV, ventilator support and management and patient/family education relative to respiratory disease processes, interventions and outcomes to hospitalized and outpatient clientele. Assists in providing multidisciplinary staff education relative to respiratory care. Experience: Ability to make rapid, clinically sound decisions with a variety of details efficiently and effectively. Demonstrates initiative and sound judgment involved in problem solving. Ability to perform all job requirements in a manner which precludes question regarding individual‘s ethical standards and with discretion to safeguarding confidential material. Must be able to...