Respiratory Therapist III

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Respiratory therapist assists in the treatment, and management of patients with pulmonary disorders. Collects and analyzes sputum, blood and breathing specimens to determine levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases. Administers treatment prescribed by a physician for the care of patients with abnormalities associated with the process of breathing.  Performs technical work in the application of respiratory therapy procedures and protocols.  Interacts with physicians, nurses and others to facilitate and promote optimal patient care. 

As a successful candidate, you will: 

Set up equipment and medications and administers respiratory treatment as ordered by the physician; charts treatment, response, and progress.  Observe patients, checks equipment, and makes changes as necessary during patient rounds.  Record observations and services and completes patient records.  Respond and assists with basic life support in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation emergencies.  Participate in fire, safety and other training programs conducted within and outside of the medical center.  Maintains current CPR card.  Perform EKGs and arterial blood gases.  Maintain established department policies, procedures, objectives, and quality assurance, safety.  Assesses and documents patients’ condition on ventilators to include ETT tube placement, cuff pressure (if appropriate), breath sounds, respiratory effort, color and any noted treads in secretion, pressures, etc.Assesses and documents patients who are receiving respiratory treatments prior to and after treatment. Assesses and provides patient and family education for every patient who received initial treatment, 02 therapy, procedure, or placed on ventilator.  Evaluate patient’s or family members’ responses on the new interdisciplinary patient and family education flow sheet.

Qualifications

Your qualifications should include: 

Education, as required for certification and licensure5 years Respiratory Therapist experience. California Respiratory Care Practitioner license (RCP)Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) American Heart Association 
 

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