Respiratory Therapist-CRT

Job Summary:

The Certified Respiratory Therapist is ultimately accountable to the respiratory supervisor and department director and performs under the direct supervision of the Respiratory Therapy Supervisor and is delegated a shift assignment by the supervisor to achieve quality patient care and expected productivity during a routine workflow experience.

A Certified Respiratory Therapist must demonstrate quality health care through patient safety interventions and strategies, including competency for knowledge, skill, and ability in the following areas:

• Provision of appropriate age/growth/cognitive development during care
• Vital signs and dysfunction signs and symptoms
• Selection and application of appropriate therapy interventions
• Size selection for supplies/equipment and alarm parameter/alarm adjustments
• Patient education, including family or significant others when needed to facilitate understanding required for patient cooperation of procedures and assessments.
  • Sensitivity to cultural and religious beliefs of patients, visitors, and staff.
  • Adherence to all policies for infection prevention, surveillance, and control, consistent use of proper hand hygiene/standard precaution practice, and cleaning/storage of supplies/equipment compliant with guidelines, including safe use of PPE/eyewash and cold disinfection processes.
  • Adherence to all safe work practices such as use of environmental controls (door codes/negative flow treatment room/panic button), operation of hospital beds, and all respiratory medical equipment, office equipment, and pneumatic tube system.
  • Adherence to all work policy and demonstrate ability to work independently with minimal supervision in making clinical decisions during the completion of assigned tasks and department overall daily shift objectives in an orderly and functional fashion in a challenging environment.
  • Compliance with HIPAA/EPIC management of patient and personal health information.
  • Mentoring of students and completion of their daily evaluations.
  • Understanding of personal behavior effect on departmental PPI goals/outcomes.
  • Intuitive practice of established guidelines for patient identification/staff identification, use of electronic work lists and other EMR features for documentation/archival/retrieval/billing, inclusion of patients’ cautions, allergies, and comorbidities for provision of safe patient care, and patient report using SBAR at receipt or hand‑off of patient.
• The indication/implementation/application/cautions and contraindications for respiratory scope of practice procedures (non‑invasive and invasive) in a systematic manner to include assessment and planning, intervention and monitoring/evaluation in collaboration with the department supervisor and multidisciplinary care team as evidenced by documentation in the EMR, direct observation by the supervisor/preceptor, and patient evaluation of care. Services provided include, but are not limited to:
  • Expansion Therapy
  • Inhaled medication administration / sputum induction and specimen collection
  • Airway management
    • Pulmonary hygiene therapy: CPT (manual and device) and naso‑tracheal suction
    • Artificial airway management/suction/extubation/tracheal decannulation
    • Physician‑requested assistance for cricothyrotomy and tube exchange
• Invasive and non‑invasive mechanical ventilation: initiation, monitoring, titration, weaning, and transport (in‑house and external) of all ventilatory modes and all currently available brands of equipment and age‑specific platforms
• Medical gas administration—delivery device/monitoring for desired/adverse effects
• Oxygen and oxygen/helium mixture/cylinder use/handling/MRI/storage
• Air/oxygen piping system use/shut‑off
• Blood gas/co‑oximetry: specimen collection and analysis/results reporting
• Pulse oximetry/SpO₂ trend study/home O₂ evaluation
• Other duties as assigned

• Demonstrate quality health care through cross‑training in all areas as experience supports or as new graduate’s experiences develop the knowledge and skills for areas listed (NICU, ED, ICU/CCU, PF Lab, OI)
• Demonstrate practice of all established patient safety and infection control intervention
• Intuitively evaluate patient…