Job Description

Job Description

Certification Details

• BLS
• Illinois State Respiratory Care Practitioner License

Job Details

• Disassembles, washes, rinses, dries and packages respiratory equipment.
• Effectively evaluate the results of patient respiratory care delivered per care plans.
• Functions as a role model in Respiratory Care demonstrating competency in clinical judgment, select technical skills and appropriate knowledge base.
• Prepares and tests respiratory therapy equipment for proper and safe operation and checks equipment in use and on units for proper operations and routine service.
• Reports malfunctioning equipment to manager.
• Processes and maintains respiratory equipment.
• Accurately charts on the respiratory flow sheets in the EMR and on the care plans.
• Charges accurately in the EMR.
• Completes assessments on ventilator patients and all other patients on respiratory care services.
• Recommends timely interventions and the need for further treatment or referral in the participant's respiratory care regimen.
• Records procedures, patient response and compliance with sleep therapy documentation requirements and consults with Respiratory Care Practitioner any adverse effects and compliance with equipment.
• Relays same information in writing to physician.
• Evaluates patients for routine respiratory care therapy on the inpatient units and Emergency room.
• Obtains and analyses blood gases: Arterial, Venous and Capillary.
• Assists cleaning respiratory care related equipment.
• Assists with stocking respiratory care related supplies on the inpatient care units.

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