Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Description:

As a comprehensive center, respiratory navigators aspire to demonstrate, patient/family and community education, contribution to the body of nursing knowledge and facilitation of professional growth and development.

Respiratory Navigators assist in the promotion and maintenance of high level, quality care through the analysis, review, and evaluation of clinical practices within the hospital. Assures effective and efficient utilization of hospital facilities and services.

When dealing with a disease that manifests differently in each individual, the navigator’s patient-centric approach can make a dramatic difference.

Navigators facilitate the longitudinal care process, advocating for the patient at every step. Through routine check-ins, they help make sure patients are aware of the medical and rehabilitation services available to them, and they ultimately empower patients to improve their own quality of life and overall health.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Perform spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion capacity

• Pulmonary Function equipment calibration and set up

• Evaluate response to bronchodilators

• Perform 6MWT / Field testing and oximetry testing

• Ability to function effectively in a fluid, dynamic, and rapidly changing environment

• Ability to develop positive, longitudinal relationships and set appropriate boundaries with patients/families.

• Excellent assessment and triage skills. Ability to implement evidence base interventions and protocols for chronic conditions

•      Able to demonstrate ability to educate and instruct patients in various respiratory modalities including treatments, pulmonary rehabilitation, pulmonary function testing, secretion clearing techniques, smoking cessation, sleep disorder compliance and recognition

Minimum qualifications

• Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) from the Department of Health.

•      BLS required. ACLS preferred

•      Knowledge in Pulmonary Function Testing

•      Pulmonary Disease educator certified or willing within 6 months

•      CPFT or RPFT designation preferred or willing within 6 months

•      Coding, billing experience preferred

•      2+ years experience in pulmonary chronic care

Licensure

• Registered Respiratory Therapist through the Florida Board of Respiratory Care.

Position Highlights and Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit packages available, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 403B, and education assistance

• We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities

• We live and breathe our guiding behaviors: we support each other in serving, we communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions, and we are continuous learners communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions, and we are continuous learners

Ministry/Facility Information:

• Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a full-service, non-profit Catholic hospital, sponsored by the sisters of Mercy and a member of Trinity Health.

• We are committed to providing compassionate and holistic person-centered care.

• We are the only not-for-profit Catholic hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We are part of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Together, we serve people and communities in 21 states from coast to coast, providing nearly 2.8 mi