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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.
- Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- 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.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
- Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
- Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Aerosol masks
- Apnea monitors
- Personal computers
- Volume ventilators
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- High-frequency ventilators
- Nebulizers
- Humidifiers
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Oxygen regulators
- Oral airways
- Blood gas machines
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Medical aerosol tents
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Tracheotomy masks
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Oxygen tanks
- Nasal airways
- Christmas tree adapters
- Oxygen concentrators
- Capillary catheters
- Medical suction equipment
- Percussors
- Portable flat computers
- Oxygen hoods
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Wright's spirometers
- Tourniquets
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Medical oxygen masks
- Infant incubators
- Indirect calorimeters
- Notebook computers
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Oxygen masks
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Bronchoscopes
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Air compressors
- Oxygen monitors
- Surgical suits
- Blood collection syringes
- Oxygen tents
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Incentive spirometers
- Manometers
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Sputum traps
- Bedside spirometers
- Pulse oximeters
- Cell savers
- Ambu bags
- Blood gas kits
- Cannulas
- HMS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- MEDITECH software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Excel
- Database software
- Microsoft Word
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Microsoft Outlook