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