Overview
Here is your opportunity to really help your community in a skilled nursing facility in Birmingham.
Responsibilities
TMC is an equal opportunity employer.
Here is your opportunity to really help your community in a skilled nursing facility in Birmingham.
Responsibilities
- Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
- Provide assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, and medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
- Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
- Read prescription and review patient information to assess patient condition.
- Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to manage patient care.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- 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 and the use of medications and respiratory equipment.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees and other health care personnel.
- Teach, train, supervise, and utilize the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, and assistants.
- Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
- Current active respiratory therapist license with no disciplinary action documented
- Experience in Skilled nursing and home health care settings and preferably a working relationship with hospital in close proximity to primary facility
- Flexibility in hours and reporting based on urgent need - short notice assignments and weekend availability
TMC is an equal opportunity employer.
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.