Respiratory Therapist NICU - Contract

Scrub Color: All: Any Color; OR/L&D: provided; Micro Bio Tech: business appropriate street clothes (lab coat provided); MLT: Any color scrubs or business casual. Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred Work Settings.

BLOCK 1ST TIMER -LIC PEND- RRT NICU - Req 10974


Will position float between units: Yes
Is on-call required? No
Are weekends required? Yes Every other weekend
Are block schedules required? Yes
What are expected ratios? 1:15
Special requirements: Need to have critical care and NICU experience
Are 48 hours approved: Yes


Hospital Highlights
Type of Facility: Short Term Acute Care
Total Staffed Beds: 418
Scrub Color: All: Any Color; OR/L&D: provided; Micro Bio Tech: business appropriate street clothes (lab coat provided); MLT: Any color scrubs or business casual
Charting: Epic
Parking Cost: No Fee

Job Requirements & Qualifications

• Years of Experience:
  2 year(s)
• Patient Ratio Experience:
  1:15
• Charting System:
  Required, Any
• Teaching Hospital Experience:
  -
• Community Hospital Experience:
  -
• LTAC Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level I Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level II Experience:
  -
• Travel Experience Required:
  No
• Certfications:Certs marked with * are preferred
  ACLS, BLS, NRP, PALS, RRT
• Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred

  Work Settings

  NICU
  Adult Critical Care
  Emergency Department

  Airway Management Devices/Suctioning

  Extubation
  Intubation Assist
  Nasal airway placement
  Nasal airway suctioning
  Oral airway placement
  Oral/nasal Suctioning
  Sputum specimen collection
  Tracheostomy care/management
  Pulmonary Hygiene
  Suctioning (ETT, NT)

  Nebulizer

  Heated
  Trach collar
  Cold
  Hand held

  Oxygen therapy

  Bag and mask
  ET Tube
  High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
  Oxygen tanks
  Trach collar

  Ventilator Management

  BiPAP
  CPAP
  Troubleshooting high pressure alarms
  Weaning from mechanical ventilation
  Patient Transport (inter-departmental and ambulance transport)*
  SIMV (Synchronized Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation)*
  High frequency oscillator

  Neonatal/Pediatrics - Equipment/procedures

  Bubble CPAP
  CPAP/Nasal CPAP/BIPAP
  Oscillating Ventilator
  Apnea Monitor
  Assist in high risk delivery
  IMV/SIMV
  Intubation Assist
  Neonatal transports (inter-departmental)
  Pressure/Volume Ventilator

  Care of Patient With

  ARDS*
  Bronchoscopy*
  COVID*
  Cystic fibrosis*
  Fresh tracheostomy*
  Aspiration
  Pneumonia

  Medication Administration

  Inhaled Flolan*
  Inhaled steroids*
  Nitric Oxide (INo)*
  Perforomist*
  Spiriva*
  Tobramycin*
  Heliox*
  Albuterol
  Atrovent
  Combivent
  Flovent
  Mucomyst
  Pulmicort
  Racemic epinephrine
  Xopenex

  Care of the Infant/Child With

  Transient Tachypnea of the newborn*
  Respiratory distress syndrome
  Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

  Professional Knowledge and Skills

  Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)*
  Basic EKG
  Chest Physiotherapy: Vest
  Chest Physiotherapy
  Drawing arterial blood gases

  Medication Delivery Systems

  Aerosol set up mask
  Aerosol set up trach
  Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI)

  Pulmonary Function Experience

  Arterial punctures

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