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Cooper Norcross Health

Academic health system serving South Jersey

Registered Respiratory Therapist

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeCamden, NJ, USA$34 - $56In-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED and graduation from an AMA-approved Respiratory Care Program with an associate degree.
  • Current New Jersey State Respiratory Care Board license (NJ-RESP).
  • Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) credentials.

Responsibilities

  • Assess patients and monitor mechanical ventilatory support.
  • Provide non-invasive ventilation support and administer medical gas delivery systems, including heliox, nitric oxide, oxygen, and compressed air.
  • Provide humidification and aerosol therapy, airway management, aerosolized and instilled medications, chest physical therapy, vest therapy, intrapulmonary percussive ventilation (IPV), and in-exsufflator therapy.
  • Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and acquire and analyze arterial blood gases.
  • Monitor transcutaneous PCO2 and PO2 and pulse oximetry, including trending; monitor peak flow and support ventilator weaning.
  • Assist with bedside tracheostomies and bronchoscopy.
  • Transport patients internally and externally and educate patients and families.

Desired Qualifications

  • One to two years of pediatric and adult critical care experience is preferred.

About the Company

Cooper Norcross Health

Academic health system serving South Jersey

Cooper Norcross Health is an academic health system serving South Jersey from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Jersey Shore. Its Camden flagship is South Jersey's only Level I adult trauma center and the busiest in the Philadelphia region; the system also operates a Level II pediatric trauma center and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Patients access primary, specialty, emergency, inpatient, surgical, urgent, and rehabilitation services at Cooper hospitals and outpatient clinics, while physicians teach at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and advance care and research. Rooted in Cooper Hospital, which opened in 1887, the not-for-profit system is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Camden, NJ
Founded
1887

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