Respiratory Therapist -PRN - Float Pool

• Must be willing to work at a minimum of 3 medical centers.
• PRN – Day Shift.
• Rotating holidays and weekends required.

Looking to be part of something more meaningful? At Honor Health, you’ll be part of a team, creating a multi-dimensional care experience for our patients. You’ll have opportunities to make a difference. From our Ambassador Movement to our robust training and development programs, you can select where and how you want to make an impact. Honor Health offers a diverse benefits portfolio for our full‑time and part‑time team members designed to help you and your family live your best lives.

Join us. Let’s go beyond expectations and transform healthcare together. Honor Health is one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, serving a population of five million people in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The comprehensive network encompasses six acute‑care hospitals, an extensive medical group with primary, specialty and urgent care services, a cancer care network, outpatient surgery centers, clinical research, medical education, a foundation, an accountable care organization, community services and more.

With nearly 17,000 team members, 3,700 affiliated providers and close to 2,000 volunteers dedicated to providing high quality care, Honor Health strives to go beyond the expectations of a traditional healthcare system to improve the health and well‑being of communities across Arizona.

This position sets up, operates, and administers all types of respiratory care equipment and procedures to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disease and illness to both general floor and critical care areas. Evaluates therapeutic objectives and outcomes and transcribes verbal orders from physicians in the medical record. Performs arterial puncture, blood gas analysis, co‑oximetry, electrocardiograms, electrolytes, and other basic pulmonary function testing.

Sets up, operates, and monitors mechanical ventilators as ordered. Makes appropriate changes as ordered. Assures the patency, stability, and location of the artificial airway. Assures adequate and appropriate humidification through the artificial airway. The therapist must be familiar with the operation of numerous different mechanical ventilators. They must also be proficient with many modes of mechanical ventilation and their applications. Assists with the transportation of mechanically ventilated patients to other patient care areas.

Performs routine respiratory care treatments and oxygen administration in adult, pediatric, and neonatal areas. Such therapy includes, but is not limited to aerosol therapy, nebulized medications, metered dose inhalers, flutter therapy, PEP therapy, incentive spirometry; nasotracheal and artificial airway suctioning; breathing exercises, CPAP/BiPAP therapy and support, sputum induction, and oxygen analysis. The therapist describes and instructs therapies or procedures to patients and/or families in a clear and professional manner.

The therapist reviews, prioritizes and readjusts their daily assignment to perform therapy in an efficient and organized manner and to provide the highest degree of patient care possible.

Performs arterial punctures. Accurately completes a variety of blood tests including arterial blood gas analysis, co‑oximetry, and electrolytes as well as the calculation of diagnostic relationships such as shunt, dead space, arterial‑venous oxygen content and alveolar‑arterial oxygen differences. Performs quality control and proficiency testing on analyzers and verifies and documents the results. Immediately reports and documents the results with critical values to the appropriate nurse or physician.

Gathers materials and equipment for therapy and transports them to patient’s bedside. Examines the patient chart for appropriate and complete orders and checks the patient’s identification band to verify the patient’s identity. Mixes measures and dispenses pharmacological solutions and drugs as prescribed by the physician. Documents all mechanical ventilator parameters and changes, all respiratory treatments, tests, or appropriate respiratory monitors and the…