What are the responsibilities and job description for the Respiratory Therapist 3 position at RUSH Health?
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Respiratory Therapist 3
Business Unit: Rush Medical Center
Hospital: Rush University Medical Center - 1620 w Harrison St Chicago, IL 60612
Department: Respiratory Care
Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE 0.9)
Shift: Shift 3
Work Schedule: 12 Hr (7:00:00 PM - 7:30:00 AM)
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Pay Range: $38.02 - $61.88 per hour
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Summary:
General Summary: Provides simple, intermediate, and complex therapeutic and diagnostic procedures on the general care floors and special care units. Improves and maintains patient cardiopulmonary status through the application and administration of various medications, gases, devices, and procedures. Functions as a clinical specialist within one of three specialty areas: neonatal/pediatrics, adults, or pulmonary function testing & diagnostics. Orient new employees and precept students. Provides leadership, charge therapist duties, and serves as a team leader to optimize patient care and work with all staff to ensure quality and patient safety. Provides training to increase staff’s skills and competencies. Ensures communication between staff, physicians, and nursing. Assist with protocol or guideline development, implementation, and compliance.
Additionally, in Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory/Diagnostics, provides and has in depth knowledge in simple, intermediate, and complex cardiopulmonary diagnostic tests and procedures. Demonstrates competency and provides education for complex medical equipment utilized in cardiopulmonary sciences. Functions as a clinical specialist resource for pulmonary function testing and interventional pulmonary bronchoscopy procedures.
Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.
Other information:
Requirements, Experience, Skills and Abilities:
Requirements:
o Master’s degree in health science/ science related field
o NBRC Adult Critical Care Specialty (ACCS) credential (Adults).
o NBRC Neonatal Pediatric Specialty (NPS) credential (Neonatal/Pediatrics).
o NBRC Registered Pulmonary Function Testing Technologist (RPFT) credential (PFT/Diagnostics)
Experience:
o Minimum of 3 years as critical care Respiratory Therapist
o Minimum of 2 years as full-time Pulmonary Function Lab technologist
Skills:
Abilities:
Responsibilities:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities. May include but is not limited to:
1. Provides charge therapist duties/coordinates lab activities as defined by the House Coverage Checklist.
2. Provides patient care/testing in assigned areas on a routine basis.
3. In PFT/Diagnostics, provides pulmonary testing and assists interventional bronchoscopy procedures currently documented in Rush PFT Lab Policy and Procedure Manual.
4. Precepts new employees and provides feedback to leadership team during orientation.
5. Provides clinical precepting of respiratory care students on rotation and provides feedback to leadership team.
6. Instructs practitioners in policy, procedures, equipment, theory, new techniques, and department competencies; instructs other healthcare workers. In PFT/Diagnostics, demonstrates in-depth knowledge of those regulatory agencies that govern diagnostic practice (ATS, CAP, CFC, TJC, CID, and CMS).
7. Assist with policy, protocol or guideline development, updating, implementation, and compliance.
8. Provide leadership in assigned areas to ensure compliance with protocols and guidelines and communication between staff, physicians, nursing, and patients.
9. Performs advanced competencies in area of specialty.
10. Documents work timely, completely, and accurately, including documentation in the patient medical record, documentation in the department records, and patient billing. Verifies medical record reporting as accurate and complete for patients tested on that day
11. Assesses patient oxygenation, ventilation, and hemodynamic status through clinical observation, patient assessment, physiologic monitoring including oximetry, capnography, ventilator waveform analysis, and cardiac output, ECG, and laboratory values.
12. Demonstrate initiative in optimizing patient care by participating in physician rounds and documenting assessment findings and therapy changes.
13. Provides patient/family education and disease management as requested.
14. Performs bronchoscopy assist; bedside in Adult RC, and in Bronch Suite in PFT/Diagnostics.
15. Assists in completing annual staff competencies.
16. Conducts assigned staff performance evaluations in a timely manner.
17. Participates in CQI and QA initiatives including work audits and committee participation.
18. Engagement in the pursuit of excellence, i.e. committee participation, CQI and QA initiatives, abstracts, research, Daily Management System (DMS) projects, or other activities to improve the clinical and work environments
19. Provides input on staff performance to department management
20. Leads committees as assigned; chair one department committee and/or serve on a hospital committee.
21. Actively engaged in improving Employee Engagement.
22. Coordinate and monitor research activities as assigned.
23. Demonstrate professionalism by belonging to the AARC / ISRC and continuing education in management, research, or education.
24. Lecture at a professional meeting or publish in a professional journal or mentor graduate student research project annually.
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