**It's more than a career, it's a calling** MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital **Worker Type:** Regular **Job Highlights:** **Features:** Monitor, interpret, and evaluate patients response to therapy, provide appropriate airway management, contribute to zero preventable sentinel/serious events. **Benefits:** Contribute to overall physician and employee commitment by collaborating, communicate and promote teamwork, opportunity to actively participate in unit meetings, committees, and special projects. **Job Summary:** Provides evaluation of and care for respiratory therapy patients. Administers prescribed respiratory therapeutic services. **Job Responsibilities and Requirements:** PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES + Assesses patient for appropriate type and frequency of treatment and develops a plan of care based on diagnosis. + Responsible for providing respiratory care services in accordance with specific physician's orders, department policies and procedures and guidelines. + Implements and monitors patient care plan and equipment. Monitors, records and communicates patient condition. Performs advanced respiratory care modalities. + Evaluates respiratory practice, administration of medications, and treatment based on patient outcome. + Educates the patient and family about the health condition and provides information about community support groups and other available programs. + Assists with care, calibration and maintenance of all equipment. Participates in maintaining departmental inventory levels for supplies and equipment. Processes equipment per established cleaning/sterilization procedures. + Responds to Medical Emergencies and Rapid Responses. + Performs other duties as assigned. EDUCATION + Associate's degree or equivalent years of experience and education. EXPERIENCE + No experience required. **Work Shift:** Night Shift (United States of America) **Job Type:** Employee **Department:** 4302000010 Respiratory Therapy **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 36 _SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,_ _pregnancy, veteran status_ **_,_** _or any other characteristic protected by applicable law._ Click here to learn more. (https://www.ssmhealth.com/privacy-notices-terms-of-use/non-discrimination?\_ga=2.205881493.704955970.1667719643-240470506.1667719643)