Respiratory Therapist - nights

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

36 hours on the night shift

Job Description:

 

Job Profile Summary 

This position reports directly to the Manager of Respiratory Therapy and receives day to day oversight from the Respiratory Supervisors. The Respiratory Therapist - Registered performs respiratory care related duties to all age groups. The Respiratory Therapist - Registered is responsible for direct patient care within their scope of services in accordance with state licensure, and the Registration Board of Respiratory Care. The Respiratory Therapist - Registered works under physician orders, follows departmental and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center policies. The Respiratory Therapist - Registered utilizes a high level of critical thinking skills, must have the ability to apply the appropriate best-practice, be objective and receptive to others’ points of view with regard to patient care issues. 

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to: 

 
 
- Provides direct patient care under physician orders and within the scope of services and licensure laws 
- Works collaboratively with providers 
-   Reviews current orders in area of responsibility and ensures patients receive treatments as ordered 
-  Administers medications via hand held nebulizer, MDI and new modes of delivery as established 
- Assesses patients throughout the treatment and interventions cycle 
-Completes and updates plans of care      
- Ensures ventilator parameters are set according to physician orders 
- Enters set and actual patient settings on flow sheets 
- Checks and documents alarm parameters 
-Completes documentation legibly 
-Assesses and performs daily spontaneous breathing trial   
- Calibrates inhaled nitric oxide system 
-Administers inhaled nitric oxide in cardiac catherization laboratory, through ventilator and assists with administration of nitric oxide in the operating room. 
-Administers helium-oxygen therapy 
- Sets up BIPAP and adjusts parameters per augmentation order set 
-Sets up patients on Non Invasive Ventilation 
-Performs non bronchial alveolar lavage procedures 
- Assists during procedures 
- Assists ventilated patients during transport 
-  Assists to transition ventilator patients on EMS portable ventilators until transfer occurs      
-  Responds to MET calls, codes blue, trauma calls and other emergencies 
-    Performs CPR as needed 
-    Participates with collaborative research projects 
-    Draws arterial blood gases and sends to laboratory for analysis 
-   Performs bedside spirometry, negative ins