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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)
• Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
• Cardiopulmonary Technician and EEG Tech (Cardiopulmonary Technician and Electroencephalogram Technician)
• Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist
• Oxygen Therapist
• Inhalation Therapist
• Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy

Tasks for “Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy”

• Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
• Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
• Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
• 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.
• Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
• Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
• Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
• 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.
• Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
• 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.
• Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
• Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
• 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.
• Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
• 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.
• Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

• Bronchoscopes
• Oxygen tanks
• Cannulas
• Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
• Medical oxygen masks
• Infant incubators
• Pulse oximeters
• Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Portable flat computers
• Oxygen flowmeters
• Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
• Blood collection syringes
• Oral airways
• Oxygen masks
• Surgical suits
• Blood gas machines
• Apnea monitors
• Oxygen concentrators
• Nebulizers
• Manual blood pressure equipment
• Cell savers
• Sputum traps
• Percussors
• Oxygen hoods
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Indirect calorimeters
• Incentive spirometers
• Oxygen monitors
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
• Tracheotomy masks
• Tourniquets
• Oxygen tents
• Electronic blood pressure equipment
• Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Medical suction equipment
• Ambu bags
• Air compressors
• Volume ventilators
• Bedside spirometers
• Christmas tree adapters
• Nasal airways
• Personal computers
• Notebook computers
• Manometers
• Wright's spirometers
• Humidifiers
• Small particle aerosol generators
• Negative pressure ventilators
• Capillary catheters
• Hemodynamic monitors
• Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
• Oxygen regulators
• Blood gas kits
• Evacuated blood collection tubes
• Medical aerosol tents
• Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
• Aerosol masks
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Endotracheal ET tubes
• High-frequency ventilators

• Microsoft Excel
• Database software
• Calendar and scheduling software
• Microsoft Word
• Electronic medical record EMR software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• HMS
• Microsoft Office
• MEDITECH software