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