Respiratory Therapist

                    

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

                        

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

                                    

Job Title

Respiratory Therapist

                        

Location

Weston

                    

Facility

Florida Weston Hospital

                     

Department

Respiratory Therapy Icu-Integrated Hospital Care Institute

                      

Job Code

000645

                     

Shift

Nights

                       

Schedule

6:30pm-7:00am

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

This position is eligible for a $7,500 sign-on bonus

Join Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital’s team of caregivers that remain on the leading edge of technology and education all while consistently providing patient-centered healthcare. As part of Cleveland Clinic’s Florida region, Weston Hospital is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area and Florida. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.    

 

Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Therapy Enterprise is one of the world’s largest and most highly respected academic respiratory therapy collaboratives. It provides evidence-based clinical care to some of the most critically ill patients in the United States. Respiratory Therapists at Cleveland Clinic provide care to the adult, pediatric, and neonatal population.  

 

A caregiver in this position works nights from 6:30PM – 7:00AM, with rotating weekend and holiday requirements.  

 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Provide care to adults/elderly considering assessment and interview techniques identifying psychosocial, physical, and educational needs. 

• Maintain continuous ventilation of patients on mechanical ventilators (invasive and noninvasive). 

• Monitor patient's ventilatory status with spirometers, pressure gauges and chest auscultation, draw and analyze arterial blood gases and measure respiratory exchange. 

• Wean patients from continuous ventilation utilizing established procedures. 

• Perform cardiopulmonary assessment to evaluate patient's respiratory status. 

• Analyze, record, and report results such as arterial blood gases, oxygenation studies, pulmonary function tests, hemodynamic monitoring parameters, etc. 

• Recommend modification to therapy or implementation of treatments. 

• Maintain airway care by performing and instructing proper tracheal instillations, tracheal aspiration, and nasotracheal aspiration. 

• Perform invasive procedures such as arterial puncture, tracheostomy tube changes as ordered by the physician. 

• Assist the physician in bedside and/or scheduled Bronchoscopy procedures. 

• Perform bedside Spirometry procedures and/or more complete Pulmonary Function studies with appropriate training (clinic staff). 

• Perform basic respiratory therapies such as medicated aerosols,