Travel Registered Respiratory Therapist - $1,764 per week
Company: Decatur Memorial Hospital
Location: Decatur
Posted on: October 26, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Certs REQ: ACLS, BLS, PALS, RRT, and State license required.
- Job Details
- Position / Specialty: Respiratory Therapist
- Shift: 3x12 Nights (1800-0630) - must be open to overtime.
- Avg. Daily Census: 130. 180 bed facility.
- Years of experience REQ: Minimum 2 years' experience
required
- First-timers accepted: Yes
- Weekend REQ: Will work every other or every third weekend
depending on department need.
- Is on-call REQ? Yes- on call required December-April.
- Will clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? Will
float if needed.
- Open to accommodating block schedule? Discuss schedule requests
with manager.
- Locals accepted: Yes- no radius.
- Pending License accepted: No- active IL license required to
apply.
- RTO Restrictions: Ideally no more than 5 days.
- Guaranteed Hours: Client may call-off up to 36 hours per
thirteen week assignment without paying for the cancelled hours. If
Client cancels more hours than permitted by this section, Client
will be billed for any shifts or portions thereof cancelled in
excess of this section. If Candidates are placed on-call in lieu of
being called off, that will count as a called-off shift.
- Patient Diagnoses: All age groups neonatal through geriatric
and all possible diagnoses.
- Special Procedures/Unit Details: Assist with bronchoscopies on
occasion. Nighttime and daytime SAT / SBT responsibilities. Mostly
routine respiratory care. Called to Emergency Department for all
codes/traumas and severe respiratory distress only. Level II
Nursery with sporadic bubble CPAP and invasive mechanical
ventilation. Peds during RSV season which results in a lot of HFNC
utilization.
- Special Equipment: Drager V500 Ventilators (16), EV 300 Bipaps
(10), V60 Bipaps (12), ResMed Tabletop PAP Devices (6), Volara
(metaneb)(5), Vest therapy (4), Aerobika, Breath Actuated
Nebulizers, Aerogen on all equipment.
- Required Work Setting Experience: Adult Critical Care, ED,
Pediatrics.
- Preferred Work Setting Experience: NICU, PICU, Transports (may
need to assist with transfers to sister hospitals).
- Required Airway Management Devices/Suctioning
Skills/Experience: Endrotracheal tube/suctioning, Extubation,
Intubation Assist, Nasal airway placement, Nasal airway suctioning,
Oral airway placement, Oropharyngeal/suctioning, Pulmonary Hygiene,
Sputum specimen collection, Tracheostomy/suctioning.
- Required Care of the Patient With: ARDS, Aspiration, COVID,
Cystic fibrosis, Fresh tracheostomy, Pneumonia.
- Required Medication Administration Skills/Experience:
Albuterol, Atrovent, Bicarbonate, Combivent, Flovent, Inhaled
steroids, Isuprel, Mucomyst, Pulmicort, Racemic epinephrine,
Spiriva, Terbutaline Sulfate, Tobramycin, Xopenex.
- Required Medication Delivery System Experience/Skills: Aerosol
set up mask, Aerosol set up trach, Medihaler, Metered dose
inhaler.
- Required Nebulizer Skills/Experience: Cold, Hand held, Heated,
Trach collar.
- Required Oxygen therapy skills/experience: Bag and mask, ET
Tube, High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC), Trach collar.
- Required Ventilator Management Skills/Experience: BiPap, CPAP,
Troubleshooting high pressure alarms, Weaning from mechanical
ventilation.
- Required Neonatal/Pediatrics - Equipment/procedures
Skills/Experience: Bubble CPAP, Capillary blood gases, CPAP/Nasal
CPAP/BIPAP, IMV/SIMV, Intubation Assist, Pressure/Volume
Ventilator, Umbilical blood gases.
- Preferred Neonatal/Pediatrics - Equipment/procedures
Skills/Experience: Assist in high risk delivery, Neonatal
transports (inter-departmental).
- Required Care of the Infant/Child With: Respiratory syncytial
virus, Transient Tachypnea of the newborn.
- Preferred Care of the Infant/Child With: Bronchopulmonary
Dysplasia, Near drowning, Respiratory distress syndrome.
- Required Professional Knowledge and Skills: ABG interpretation,
Chest physiotherapy, Drawing arterial blood gases.
- Cerner experience required.
- Community Hospital Experience Preferred.
- Level I and II trauma experience Preferred.
- Additional Details
- Scrub Color: Navy Blue (preferred), Any solid color if not
navy.
- Charting: Cerner
- Parking Cost: parking permit required, no cost. Will fill out
form during orientation
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