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