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