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Job Description
Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders. Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities, including the supervision of respiratory therapy technicians. Initiate and conduct therapeutic procedures; maintain patient records; and select, assemble, check, and operate equipment.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1126.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 60,640.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 29.00
- Currently, there are 126,770 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Respiratory Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Respiratory Therapists
- Staff Therapist
- Staff Respiratory Therapist
- Respiratory Therapy Director
- Respiratory Therapist (RT)
- Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP)
- Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
- Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy
- Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
- Cardiopulmonary Technician and EEG Tech (Cardiopulmonary Technician and Electroencephalogram Technician)
- Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist
- Oxygen Therapist
- Inhalation Therapist
Tasks for “Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist”
- Educate patients and their families about their conditions and teach appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.
- Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
- Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
- Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
- Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
- Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
- Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.
- Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
Related Technology & Tools
- Air compressors
- Cannulas
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Volume ventilators
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Pulse oximeters
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Nebulizers
- Medical aerosol tents
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Personal computers
- Tourniquets
- Oxygen hoods
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Aerosol masks
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Nasal airways
- Percussors
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Tracheotomy masks
- High-frequency ventilators
- Indirect calorimeters
- Humidifiers
- Blood gas kits
- Bronchoscopes
- Incentive spirometers
- Christmas tree adapters
- Cell savers
- Capillary catheters
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical oxygen masks
- Sputum traps
- Manometers
- Infant incubators
- Oxygen regulators
- Medical suction equipment
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Oral airways
- Bedside spirometers
- Apnea monitors
- Oxygen tents
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Oxygen concentrators
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Blood gas machines
- Notebook computers
- Oxygen monitors
- Oxygen tanks
- Blood collection syringes
- Wright's spirometers
- Portable flat computers
- Ambu bags
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Oxygen masks
- Surgical suits
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Office
- Database software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- MEDITECH software
- HMS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word