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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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