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