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