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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 “Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy”

• Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
• Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
• 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.
• Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
• Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
• Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
• Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
• Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
• Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
• Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
• Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
• Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
• Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
• 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.
• Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
• Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
• Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
• Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.

Related Technology & Tools

• Medical oxygen masks
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• High-frequency ventilators
• Negative pressure ventilators
• Oxygen concentrators
• Blood gas kits
• Medical aerosol tents
• Hemodynamic monitors
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Oxygen masks
• Apnea monitors
• Manual blood pressure equipment
• Electronic blood pressure equipment
• Pulse oximeters
• Cannulas
• Nasal airways
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Incentive spirometers
• Cell savers
• Oxygen flowmeters
• Bedside spirometers
• Tracheotomy masks
• Capillary catheters
• Small particle aerosol generators
• Infant incubators
• Nebulizers
• Oxygen regulators
• Oxygen tents
• Blood collection syringes
• Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
• Humidifiers
• Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
• Christmas tree adapters
• Sputum traps
• Medical suction equipment
• Tourniquets
• Bronchoscopes
• Indirect calorimeters
• Percussors
• Notebook computers
• Endotracheal ET tubes
• Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
• Ambu bags
• Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
• Wright's spirometers
• Portable flat computers
• Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
• Blood gas machines
• Manometers
• Oxygen monitors
• Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Personal computers
• Evacuated blood collection tubes
• Aerosol masks
• Volume ventilators
• Surgical suits
• Oral airways
• Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
• Air compressors
• Oxygen tanks
• Oxygen hoods

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• MEDITECH software
• Microsoft Excel
• Electronic medical record EMR software
• Database software
• Calendar and scheduling software
• Microsoft Outlook
• HMS
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word