Registered Respiratory Therapist-Respiratory Therapy-Per Diem-Days-Mount Si at Mount Sinai

Long Island City, NY 11102, USA -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Nov, 25

Salary

64.72

Posted On

10 Aug, 25

Experience

1 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Life Support, Respiratory Therapy, Health

Industry

Hospital/Health Care

Description

Responsibilities

Receives/Gives shift report to include but not limited to: Updates, ventilator management, blood gas lab, equipment condition & location, and any pending work. Report sick calls and or lateness calls received. Waits to ensure that all incoming personnel are present.
Performs all aerosolized therapy in a timely efficient manner. This includes placing equipment bag at the patient’s bedside.
Performs all oxygen/humidity in a timely and efficient manner. This includes pulse oximeter reading pre/post administration of therapy. Refills humidifier bottles when water levels are low.
Performs patient assessment completely and accurately. Reporting adverse reactions to medications, reports patient’s condition to physician, nurse and department manager.
Signs Respiratory Therapy Prescription Form acknowledging receipt and completeness of order and placing this form in the patients chart. Fills in ALL information on Patient Treatment & Ventilator Cardex, Oxygen Record, Bedside Treatment Record and Patient Assessment including peak flow reading. Charts pulse oximeter reading and incentive spirometry assignments in the progress notes. Charts Ventilator & BIPAP rounds every 3-4 hours, omitting no information on the flow sheet.
Give- instructions to patients/family on all aspects of respiratory care. Completes and signs Patient Treatments Record, gives out information handouts when indicated.
Blood Gas Laboratory: Ensures that daily maintenance is done and notifying the supervisor of any problems. Completes all information in Rapid-link. Process arterial blood gas stats. Maintains the area neat & clean. Logs rejected samples in the Communication Log Book.
Responsible for the operation, maintenance and management of mechanical ventilators. Cleans; sets-up and tests ventilators in the absence of an equipment technician. Changes circuits in the accordance to department policy, ensures one-way safety valves are in place for nebulizer use. Wipes down ventilators weekly with approved hospital disinfected. Ensures that stand-by ventilators are in place in the emergency room ct-scan RR, and ICU.
Performs artificial airway management, intubates patients, suctions patients as needed; replaces soiled trac-ties and changes Ballard closed suction catheters on a weekly basis. Auscultations of chest to assure proper airway placement. Assists MD in performing patient bronchoscopy. Assists Speech Therapist with the Passy-Muir device on ventilator trach. patients. Provides trach care to all ventilator tracheostomy patients on a daily basis. Provides sputum induction to all patients as ordered by the physician.
Performs arterial punctures (radial or brachial site) in order to obtain a patients blood gas sample