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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 “Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)”
- Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
- Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
- Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
- 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 bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- 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.
- 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.
- Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
- Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
- Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
Related Technology & Tools
- Infant incubators
- Apnea monitors
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Oxygen masks
- Medical aerosol tents
- Blood gas machines
- Indirect calorimeters
- Percussors
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Pulse oximeters
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Nebulizers
- Oxygen tents
- Air compressors
- Portable flat computers
- Aerosol masks
- Notebook computers
- Cell savers
- Wright's spirometers
- Bedside spirometers
- Medical suction equipment
- Oral airways
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Blood gas kits
- Personal computers
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- High-frequency ventilators
- Oxygen hoods
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Surgical suits
- Manometers
- Humidifiers
- Oxygen tanks
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Tracheotomy masks
- Sputum traps
- Oxygen concentrators
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Christmas tree adapters
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Oxygen regulators
- Volume ventilators
- Incentive spirometers
- Blood collection syringes
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Cannulas
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Ambu bags
- Nasal airways
- Capillary catheters
- Bronchoscopes
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Tourniquets
- Medical oxygen masks
- Oxygen monitors
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Database software
- HMS
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook