Respitory Therapist
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: UNM Hospitals is in need of Respitory Therapist right now, this position will be presented in New Mexico. For detail informations about this position opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Position Summary:
Provide clinical respiratory care. Access, evaluate and recommend intervention to obtain specific patient outcomes. Assemble, operate and troubleshoot various types of respira! tory equipment used in diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disease, disability, impairment and illness. Ensure adherence to Hospital and Departmental Policies, Procedures and guidelines. Patient care assignment may include; Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric age groups.
Accountability:
PATIENT CARE - Provide patients education and consultation on disease management
CUSTOMER SERVICE - Ensure customer and patient satisfaction using scripting procedure
ADMINISTER - Access patient, administer and evaluate appropriate respitory therapy, including aerosolized medication delivery, chest physiotherapy, intermittent positive pressure breathing, oxygen supplementation, pulmonary hygiene, artificial airway care, tracheostomy care including patient education, incentive spirometry, non-invasive and invasive procedures
PERFORM - Perform as a resource for certified respiratory therapy technicians and respiratory therapy as! sistants
ASSIST - Assist healthcare team managing pat! ients on mechanical ventilators, monitor patients requiring mechanical life support. Follow weaning guidelines/protocols to ensure appropriate duration of mechanical ventilation
RECOMMEND - Recommend appropriate mode of ventilatory support to physicians. Participate with critical care team on patient rounds and teaching
PARTICIPATE - Participate in Hospitals cardiopulmonary resuscitation team. Provide airway maintenance, manual resuscitation and chest compression during Dr Heart codes. Assist with endotracheal tube insertion, stabilazation and continued ventilatory support
PARTICIPATE - Participate with Hospitals trauma team. Respond to trauma pages. Assist with intubation, airway management and ventilator support. Assist with internal transport of ventilator and patient
PARTICIPATE - Participate with Hospitals high-risk labor and delivery team. Respond to high-risk delivery pages and provide airway management, assist with intubation and ! stabilazation of the endotracheal tube, administer surfactant if ordered by physician, provide ventilator support
PERFORM - Perform arterial puncture for blood gas analysis. Run blood gas sample for analysis. Interpret arterial blood gas and electrolite results
PROVIDE - Provide recommendations for therapy and appropriate ventilation based on lab results
PERFORM - Perform simple bedside pulmonary function tests on intubated and non-intubated patients. Make recommendations for therapy and ventilator support
PERFORM - Perform oximetry for arterial oxygen saturation evaluation. Setup, evaluate and monitor ETCO2 and sleep study monitoring
INITIATE - Receive and initiate physician's orders for respiratory care, including verbal orders under Hospitals policy
PROVIDE - Provide patient clinical assessment; evaluate patient criteria for appropriateness of, and compliance with, therapeutic objectives
ADMINISTER - Administ! er and monitor medical gases and environmental control systems includin! g oxygen, compressed air, heliox, nitrogen, and nitric oxide. Participate in medical gas failure emergencies and planned outages
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If you were eligible to this position, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to UNM Hospitals.
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This position will be started on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:36:34 GMT
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