Registered Respiratory Therapist - Per Diem

REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST - PER DIEM

Join to apply for the REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST - PER DIEM role at UNM Hospital
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• Weekday Nights 17% differential
• Weekend Nights 26% differential
• Weekend Day shift 15% differential

Minimum

Offer:

$30.19/hr maximum

Offer:

$30.19/hr compensation is based on factors such as experience and education.

Provide clinical respiratory care. Access, evaluate and recommend interventions to attain specific patient outcomes. Assemble, operate and troubleshoot various types of respiratory equipment used in diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disease, disability, impairment and illness. Ensure adherence to Hospital and Departmental policies, procedures and guidelines. Patient care assignments may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.

• Participate in the hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation team. Provide airway maintenance, manual resuscitation and chest compression during Dr. Heart codes. Assist with endotracheal tube insertion, stabilization and continued ventilatory support.
• Perform arterial puncture for blood gas analysis. Run blood gas sample for analysis. Interpret arterial blood gas and electrolyte results.
• Provide patient education and consultation on disease management.
• Administer and evaluate appropriate respiratory therapy, including aerosolized medication delivery, chest physiotherapy, intermittent positive pressure breathing, oxygen supplementation, pulmonary hygiene, artificial airway care, tracheostomy care, incentive spirometry, and non‑invasive and invasive procedures.
• Perform simple bedside pulmonary function tests on intubated and non‑intubated patients. Make recommendations for therapy and ventilator support.
• Perform oximetry for arterial oxygen saturation evaluation. Set up, evaluate and monitor ETCO2 and sleep study monitoring.
• Receive and initiate physician's orders for respiratory care, including verbal orders under hospital policy.
• Provide patient clinical assessment; evaluate patient criteria for appropriateness of, and compliance with, therapeutic objectives.
• Administer and monitor medical gases and environmental control systems including oxygen, compressed air, heliox, nitrogen, and nitric oxide. Participate in medical gas failure emergencies and planned outages.
• Administer aerosolized pharmacological agents, calculate dosages for continuous aerosolized therapy. Transition patients from aerosol delivery to MDIs according to department guidelines.
• Assist healthcare team managing patients on mechanical ventilators and monitor patients requiring mechanical life support. Follow weaning guidelines/protocols to ensure appropriate duration of mechanical ventilation.
• Ensure customer and patient satisfaction using scripting procedures.
• Serve as a resource for certified respiratory therapy technicians and respiratory therapy assistants.
• Recommend appropriate mode of ventilatory support to physicians. Participate with critical care team on patient rounds and teaching.
• Participate with hospitals trauma team. Respond to trauma pages. Assist with intubation, airway management and ventilator support. Assist with internal transport of ventilator and patient.
• Participate with hospitals high‑risk labor and delivery team. Respond to high‑risk delivery pages and provide airway management, assist with intubation and stabilization of the endotracheal tube, administer surfactant if ordered, and provide ventilator support.
• Provide recommendations for therapy and appropriate ventilation based on lab results.
• Assist facility maintenance, maintain equipment, label and route malfunctioning equipment to appropriate location.
• Collaborate with healthcare team to implement and document individual plan of care with age‑specific considerations. Include discharge plan and patient/family teaching.
• Follow patient safety‑related policies, procedures and protocols.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Report potential or actual patient…