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