Registered Respiratory Therapist

Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here.

Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

36

💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

 

🌟 Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

Upon physician’s orders, assesses patients’ pulmonary status, determines appropriateness of orders and administers various modes supportive or restorative of therapy, with or without medical gases or pharmacological agents to restore normal cardio-pulmonary function. Upon physicians’ orders conducts various cardio-pulmonary diagnostic tests to determine existence or extent of cardio-pulmonary disease.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description:

• Administers safe, effective respiratory treatments, and effective medical gas therapy consistent with current standards of practice in the critical care or Level 3 NICU.
• Maintains equipment and supplies to ensure decontamination, disinfection, sterilization of supplies.
• Maintenance of a clean, safe and organized work environment.
• Follows work related duties in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations
• Completes all required safety, infection control and age specific programs as prescribed.
• Documents and communicates effects and effectiveness of therapy administered to ensure continuity of care between other members of the health care team.
• Uses background knowledge and clinical skill to mentor students from clinical affiliates specific to ICU and NICU.
• Uses background knowledge and clinical skills to assess patients’ cardiopulmonary status to implement a Respiratory Care Plan is appropriate for the patient’s age groups.
• Maintains critical care airway management skill set for intubation, bedside tracheostomy, and bronchoscopy.
• Maintains skill set for arterial line placement, ABG interpretation, and POCT blood analysis.
• Initiates and maintains cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (BLS).
• Initiates and maintains ACLS
• For NICU Initiates and maintains NRP
• Takes responsibility for self-development by acquiring skills and sharing experiences which support organizational/ department objectives.
• Ability to teach respiratory students as well as multi-disciplinary groups to be versed on knowledge and procedural steps.
• Attends mandatory quarterly education to maintain critical care skill set to work in specialty critical care areas.
• Annual Competency Education specific to the specialty areas (CSR, ICU, Cath Lab, NICU)
• Continuing Education with Pulmonary Intensivist, Surgical Intensivist, Anesthesia, and Neonatology
• Maintain a NPS or ACCS credential from NBRC.
• Pursues excellence and service, demonstrates desire and effort to be a continuous learner as evidenced by the following:
• Identifies personal goals and objectives annually as a part of performance appraisal.
• Completes Federal, State and System annual requirements.
• Identifies self-development opportunities and makes the effort to take advantage of those opportunities.
• Active member of Critical Care Committee where we review and revise policies that directly implement new ideas and techniques that can used in critical care scenarios or
• Active member of the NICU UBC to review and revise neonatal policies and attend CORE team meetings. It is the responsibility to review meeting minutes.
• Upon physicians' orders uses background knowledge and clinical skills to provide mechanical ventilator support to sustain patients' cardio-pulmonary function. 
• With indirect supervision uses background knowledge, clinical skills and specialized training to conduct a variety of diagnostic tests to determine patients' cardio-pulmonary function.
• Proficient in advance ventilator management that would include precepting new associates, students, nursing, and physicians.
• Interacts with internal and external customers using AIDET methodology
• Is accountable for his/her behavior.
• Actions contribute to improved customer satisfaction outcome
• Interacts with internal and external customers.
• Conducts himself/herself in a professional manner
• Assumes the responsibility for his/her professional growth and development.
• Uses proper communications channels, maintains confidentially of customer information and protected healthcare information, (PHI)
• Attends staff meetings as required, participates in training programs, ensures completion of annual competencies.
• Stays up to date with Health System information by reviewing written and electronic communications from various sectors of the System.
• Works within and as a member of the Sleep Disorders Team but is able to function independently when necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Registered Respiratory Therapist as described by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)
• Holds current mandatory certification in the state to practice Respiratory Therapy in the state where work is being performed.
• Associate's degree in applied science or equivalent.
• Two years’ experience: Critical Care or Level 3 NICU
• Adult Critical Care Specialty (ACCS) Certification or Neonatal/ Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialty (NPS) Certification
• ACLS certification
• NRP certification for NICU

Specialized Knowledge: 

• Must be a Preceptor.
• Must be a member of a Respiratory committee.
• Point of Care (POC) trained – Edgewood location only.
• Must be proficient in communication and teamwork with all ICU multi-disciplinary teams
• Must be proficient with advanced therapies such as:
  Intubation, INO set-up and administration, advanced settings and techniques/modes on ventilators
• Extensive knowledge of departmental critical care policies or neonatal management policies
• Neonatal ventilator management and surfactant administration
• Attend High-Risk Deliveries for NICU

Kind and Length of Experience:

• 1 year of Registered Respiratory Therapy experience

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.