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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)
- Oxygen Therapist
- Inhalation Therapist
- Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist
Tasks for “Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist”
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
- Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with 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.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- 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.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- 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.
- Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Oral airways
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Bronchoscopes
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Nebulizers
- Personal computers
- Oxygen masks
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Tourniquets
- Oxygen regulators
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Christmas tree adapters
- High-frequency ventilators
- Surgical suits
- Medical suction equipment
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Oxygen tanks
- Blood gas kits
- Blood gas machines
- Blood collection syringes
- Infant incubators
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Percussors
- Oxygen hoods
- Cell savers
- Capillary catheters
- Oxygen monitors
- Manometers
- Indirect calorimeters
- Portable flat computers
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Aerosol masks
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Humidifiers
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Pulse oximeters
- Cannulas
- Medical aerosol tents
- Ambu bags
- Air compressors
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Volume ventilators
- Apnea monitors
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Tracheotomy masks
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Oxygen concentrators
- Sputum traps
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Bedside spirometers
- Nasal airways
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Oxygen tents
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Notebook computers
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Incentive spirometers
- Wright's spirometers
- Medical oxygen masks
- Microsoft Outlook
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Excel
- Calendar and scheduling software
- HMS
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- MEDITECH software
- Database software