Lead Respiratory Therapist
17 days ago
Hinsdale
All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family: \n \n\n \n\n\n • Benefits from Day One\n \n, • Paid Days Off from Day One\n \n, • Student Loan Repayment Program\n \n, • Career Development\n \n, • Whole Person Wellbeing Resources\n \n, • Acknowledges daily staffing needs and changes on a shift by shift basis using spreadsheet.\n \n, • Fills shifts as directed by manager.\n \n, • Delegates shift assignments to other therapists.\n \n, • Ensures pagers are working and distributed to all therapists.\n \n, • Assigns and keeps track of lunch schedule and ensures that all staff use time clocks on their lunch break.\n \n, • Assigns and keeps track of WOWs.\n \n, • Notifies hospital operator of therapist assignments and pager numbers at the beginning of every shift.\n \n, • Places a copy of daily assignments in the proper journal.\n \n, • Prints an end of shift report to assure there are no open orders. If there are any open orders, he/she notifies the therapist responsible to complete them before leaving.\n \n, • Keeps track of BiPAPs and EKG machines and gives status report to next shift.\n \n, • Ensures that Pediatric EKGs have been sent for over read and keeps track of documents.\n \n, • Performs designated role in department CQI process.\n \n, • Acts as a Super User when new computer modules are introduced.\n \n, • Takes call as deemed necessary by supervisor or manager.\n \n, • Demonstrates respiratory care procedures to students and other health care workers.\n \n, • Acts as preceptor for students and new hires for orientation.\n \n, • Attends the majority of department meetings and department in-services.\n \n, • Other duties as assigned.\n \n, • Takes a shift assignment.\n \n, • Responsible for duties of Respiratory Therapist:\n \n, • Assisting and Caring for Others -- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.\n \n, • Documenting/Recording Information -- Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic form.\n \n, • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates -- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.\n \n, • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work -- Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.\n \n, • Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders. Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities. Initiate and conduct therapeutic procedures; maintain patient records; and select, assemble, check, and operate equipment.\n \n, • Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.\n \n, • Responds to Code Blue, Rapid Response and other Emergency Codes. Performs appropriate duties to rescue the patient, including maintaining the airway, intubation, chest compressions, ECG, ABG, and ventilator set-up. Trach tube changes will be limited to mature (greater than 7 days old) tracheostomies only.\n \n, • Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, and medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.\n \n, • Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.\n \n, • Associate Required\n \n, • ABG, EKG\n \n, • CERNER or other EMR\n \n, • Respiratory Therapist (RRT) Required\n \n, • Basic Life Support - CPR Cert (BLS) Required\n \n, • Neonatal Resuscitation Protocol (NRP) Preferred\n \n, • Pediatric Advanced Life Support Cert (PALS) Required\n \n \n