Travel Registered Respiratory Therapist - $1,842 per week
Company: Geisinger Community Medical Center
Location: Scranton
Posted on: October 25, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Basic Life Support Certification - American Heart Association
(AHA)
- Member of National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification - Neonatal
Resuscitation Program
- Registered Respiratory Therapist - National Board for
Respiratory Care (NBRC)
- S.T.A.B.L.E. Certified - The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program
- Job Details
- Assesses patients' respiratory care needs based on a variety of
data.
- Plans, organizes, performs, and evaluates treatment modalities
to meet those needs.
- Ensures the very best patient/family experience by optimizing
all customer interaction.
- Job Requirements
- Consistently performs and documents thorough patient
assessments.
- Establishes appropriate care plans.
- Communicates with other members of the patient care team.
- Correctly performs and documents routine therapeutic
modalities.
- Initiates and manages conventional and high frequency
mechanical ventilators according to established protocol.
- Provides appropriate, age-specific, patient and family
education as it relates to disease management.
- Assists in intra-hospital transport of mechanically ventilated
patients.
- Responsible for acute airway management in emergent
situations.
- Sets up and manages non-invasive monitoring.
- Assists with discharge planning for patients needing
respiratory related DME supplies, follows appropriate insurance
guidelines.
- Adheres to regulatory requirements and safety standards.
- Adheres to institutional and nationally established standards
of care.
- Collects arterial blood gas samples and processes through point
of care blood analyzers.
- Maintains the confidentially of patient information.
- Functions as the Shift Coordinator after one year of
employment.
- Assists the medical team in the performance of fiberoptic
bronchoscopy procedures.
- Assists the medical team with the placement invasive monitoring
lines and obtains hemodynamic measurements and calculations.
- Assists in the intra-hospital transport of age-specific patient
groups.
- Functions as a preceptor for orientees and students in their
clinical rotation.
- Schedule Information
- Full time 7P-7:30A, 3 12-hour shifts per week.
- Every other weekend and holiday.
- Primarily evening shift.
- Additional Details
- Start Date Must be Identical.
- End Date Must be Identical.
- All Requested Time Off (RTO) must be disclosed at the time of
submission.
- Time off requested after the acceptance date will not be
approved.
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