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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”
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- 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.
- Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
- 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.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
- 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.
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
- Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
- Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Oxygen monitors
- Oxygen masks
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Capillary catheters
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Blood gas kits
- Wright's spirometers
- Cell savers
- Volume ventilators
- Incentive spirometers
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Medical oxygen masks
- Sputum traps
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Bronchoscopes
- Oxygen tanks
- Indirect calorimeters
- Medical suction equipment
- Apnea monitors
- Oxygen regulators
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Manometers
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Nebulizers
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Bedside spirometers
- Air compressors
- Medical aerosol tents
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Aerosol masks
- Tracheotomy masks
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Oxygen hoods
- Notebook computers
- Pulse oximeters
- High-frequency ventilators
- Oral airways
- Ambu bags
- Cannulas
- Blood gas machines
- Portable flat computers
- Oxygen tents
- Personal computers
- Blood collection syringes
- Tourniquets
- Humidifiers
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Percussors
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Surgical suits
- Christmas tree adapters
- Nasal airways
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Infant incubators
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Oxygen concentrators
- MEDITECH software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- HMS
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Database software