CRITICAL CARE RESPIRATORY THERAPIST

Description

Location : UCHealth Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion, US : CO : Aurora

Department : Stat RN

FTE : PRN, 0.0, 0.00 hours per pay period (2 weeks)

Shift : Days

Pay : $31.61 - $47.41 / hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

Summary : Serves as critical care liaison and clinical resource. Conducts interventions focused on care coordination and utilization.

Responsibilities : Makes frequent rounds to nursing units and ancillary hospital units. Acts as a clinical resource while providing clinical consultation and ensuring care coordination.

Works to optimize health care team interventions by providing advanced, anticipatory care interventions to achieve safe, optimal health outcomes for the patient and family.

Coordinates care across departments to meet outcomes management and system improvement goals. Educates staff by reinforcing appropriate methods of effective and safe patient care.

Collaborates with staff in identification of outcome indicators, data analysis and system improvement. Identifies opportunities and solutions for service and safety improvements.

Attends Rapid Response Team (RRT), providing clinical consultation and coordination of care. Provides direct patient care as needed.

Independently administers medications per licensure authority, assesses effects of medications, and documents administration per policies and regulatory requirements.

Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision.

Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.

Requirements :

• Associate's degree in Respiratory Therapy from an accredited respiratory therapy program.
• Preferred : Bachelor's degree in Respiratory Therapy.
• 2 years critical care experience.
• State licensure as a Respiratory Therapist (RT).
• National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) of Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
• Adult Critical Care Specialist (ACCS) certification within 1 year of hire.
• BLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer with card in-hand before start date.

BLS or CPR card must be good through sixty days of hire.

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