Position Summary / Career Interest:

Registered Respiratory Therapist has these responsibilities: correctly uses Medi-tech and Bedside Medication Verification on a routine basis, works unassisted in critical care areas after check offs completed, able to perform all modes of therapy in all areas of hospital after clinical check offs completed, able to assess patients needs and suggest appropriate therapy needs, and acts as a mentor to students and new staff.


Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Collects relevant information such as patient identification, procedure, appropriateness for indicated signs and symptoms, patient preparation, contraindications, patient assessment
• Maintains, evaluates, and improves the processes of analyzing information for patient safety.
• Provides patient education
• Follows policies and procedures to perform therapy and procedures accurately and to determine each achieves the same outcome when performed by different staff
• Evaluates the patient study in a timely, accurate and comprehensive manner to determine if the intended outcome was achieved; uses independent judgment and systematic problem solving methods to perform quality therapy, pulmonary and diagnostic procedures; communicates to physician when patient condition requires modification
• Collects data to measure departmental objectives outcomes
• Documents required components of patient care
• Follows organizational and department goals and objectives
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Respiratory Therapy

Required Licensure and Certification

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Licensed Respiratory Therapist (RT) - State Board of Healing Arts through the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
• Registered Respiratory Therapist(RRT) - National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)

Preferred Licensure and Certification

• Additional certification may be required for certain patient care settings or populations. Specific information and the timeframe in which such certification must be attained will be provided by the department director/manager/supervisor at time of hire/transfer into department.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.