Travel Allied (Respiratory Therapist) - Respiratory Unit

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

Guaranteed Hours 36

Shift: Friday - Sunday

Weekend Requirement: M-Thurs team and a weekend team; you will work M-Th or F-Sun team--hours will shift, will be noted in job posting which hours needed

Holidays: Rotated in with perm staff; every other holiday can be expected

Types of patients (adults, peds, and neonates?): NICU RTs are under nursing manager for NICU; they are separate from adult needs; adult will do peds to adults

Common Patient disease processes : COPD, CHF, pneumonia, resp failure, ARDS, cancers, etc.

Duties: All RT duties such as nebs, airway management, Vapotherm, BiPap, cpap, vents, ABG collection, bedside pfts, CPT, in ICU the RT will place A line, manage blood gases, will intubate, do bronchs

There will be a hospitalist who will respond to codes, but a respiratory therapist will be the first line when it comes to intubating patients, so we won’t be able to take therapists who don’t have that experience or are not comfortable with intubating patients. Also, our therapists have to be used to high and heavy workloads

Critical Care experience required

300+ Beds experience required

Certs: if going to NICU need NRP

Additional Questions: Are they able to work critical care? They must be able to work adult ICU and work the vents. They will teach them A lines, will need to feel confident making suggestions for vent management, read ABGs and alert critical values.

Scrub Color: Ceil blue, can wear ceil blue jacket only