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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”
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- 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.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
- 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.
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
- Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
- Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
Related Technology & Tools
- Incentive spirometers
- Oxygen monitors
- Oxygen masks
- Sputum traps
- Humidifiers
- Indirect calorimeters
- Apnea monitors
- Percussors
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Bedside spirometers
- Nasal airways
- Medical aerosol tents
- Cannulas
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Medical suction equipment
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Infant incubators
- Cell savers
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Tourniquets
- Bronchoscopes
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Oxygen flowmeters
- High-frequency ventilators
- Personal computers
- Oxygen regulators
- Oral airways
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Oxygen hoods
- Small particle aerosol generators
- Ambu bags
- Wright's spirometers
- Capillary catheters
- Blood gas kits
- Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
- Aerosol masks
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Blood gas machines
- Blood collection syringes
- Manual blood pressure equipment
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Negative pressure ventilators
- Tracheotomy masks
- Air compressors
- Notebook computers
- Volume ventilators
- Nebulizers
- Manometers
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Surgical suits
- Oxygen tanks
- Oxygen tents
- Christmas tree adapters
- Oxygen concentrators
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Electronic blood pressure equipment
- Pulse oximeters
- Portable flat computers
- Medical oxygen masks
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Database software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- HMS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Excel