Respiratory Therapy Instructor

The instructor’s primary responsibilities are to provide active and effective learning for students in all applicable educational settings, act as professional and academic role models and commit to student satisfaction. This includes teaching in classrooms, labs, and outside the classroom during campus and student activities. This position delivers high-quality instruction to students, combining theoretical knowledge with practical, hands‑on experience, develops and implements curriculum, assesses student progress, and ensures adherence to industry standards and best practices.

• Organize, prepare, and deliver Respiratory Therapy course objectives and instructional content in a clear, concise, and clinically relevant manner.
• Foster and maintain an orderly, professional, controlled, and safe learning environment in Respiratory Therapy classrooms, laboratories, simulation environments, and other instructional settings.
• Prepare, maintain, and appropriately utilize Respiratory Therapy instructional equipment, supplies, training aids, and laboratory resources, including ventilators, oxygen-delivery systems, airway‑management equipment, diagnostic devices, and simulation equipment.
• Maintain curriculum accuracy and relevance by remaining current with Respiratory Therapy standards of practice, evidence‑based care, emerging technologies, credentialing expectations, and applicable professional and regulatory standards.
• Deliver engaging theory and laboratory instruction in assigned Respiratory Therapy content areas, including cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology, patient assessment, oxygen therapy, airway management, mechanical ventilation, pulmonary diagnostics, pharmacology, disease management, and respiratory care procedures.
• Demonstrate and reinforce appropriate operation, setup, calibration, troubleshooting, infection‑control practices, and safety procedures associated with Respiratory Therapy equipment and patient‑care activities.
• Evaluate student achievement through examinations, assignments, laboratory competencies, simulations, practical assessments, and other established methods of measuring cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning outcomes.
• Assess and document student competency in Respiratory Therapy procedures and skills, ensuring students demonstrate required knowledge, technical proficiency, clinical judgment, professionalism, and patient‑safety practices.
• Provide timely, specific, and constructive feedback to students regarding academic performance, laboratory skills, clinical reasoning, professional behaviors, and areas requiring improvement.
• Identify students who are academically or professionally at risk and promptly communicate concerns to program leadership; participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of individualized academic success or remediation plans.
• Foster supportive faculty‑student relationships that promote student engagement, persistence, professional development, and successful achievement of Respiratory Therapy program competencies.
• Reinforce the connection between classroom and laboratory instruction and the application of Respiratory Therapy skills in the clinical environment.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of student attendance, grades, competency completion, remediation activities, academic progress, and other required program documentation.
• Meet with students, Program Director, Director of Clinical Education, faculty, and other education personnel as needed to discuss student progress, instructional concerns, curriculum delivery, remediation, and program‑related matters.
• Provide regular and ad hoc reports to program and campus leadership regarding student…