In PersonNight shift with rotating 9.5- and 12-hour shifts; 70 hours per pay period.
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryNursing & Frontline Patient Care
About the job
Requirements
Graduate from an accredited school of Respiratory Therapy.
Hold or be eligible for current licensure as a Respiratory Care Practitioner in Wisconsin.
Hold or be eligible for CRT or RRT credentials.
Have current ACLS, NRP, PALS, and BLS certifications; ACLS, NRP, and PALS may be obtained within one year of hire, while BLS is required.
Meet health requirements.
Communicate and work effectively with others, exercising tact, discretion, and diplomacy.
Exercise independent judgment.
Maintain physical and emotional well-being.
Meet the role-model expectation for a healthy lifestyle.
Perform frequent sitting, standing, and walking for patient assessments, treatments, testing, and documentation.
Frequently lift, push/pull, and carry up to 10 pounds of records or supplies; occasionally handle up to 50 pounds to assist with patient repositioning or transfers.
Use additional assistance when moving or setting up equipment for testing.
Frequently balance while leaning across beds and patients to assess and monitor; occasionally bend and kneel while positioning patients or equipment.
Occasionally reach, handle, and perform fine manipulation when setting up and administering treatments.
Use near vision continuously for computer work, policies, procedures, and typing; frequently accommodate between computer and patient viewing; occasionally use peripheral and far vision, depth perception, and color distinction.
Frequently use simple and complex reading, writing, and math skills, as well as conversational and telephone skills.
Prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks continuously; frequently set goals and develop programs while considering community needs and regulations.
Work indoors in a well-lit, environmentally controlled environment, frequently in patient environments, and occasionally outdoors in weather extremes.
Frequently encounter blood and body fluids and disease, requiring personal protective equipment; occasionally encounter sharps and infectious waste.
Adapt to changing tasks and stressful situations, use interpersonal skills effectively, and maintain schedule and assignment flexibility, including sustained concentration and interpretive skills during assessment and testing.
Responsibilities
Provide direct patient care under medical direction using diagnostic, therapeutic, life-support, and rehabilitative evaluation methods and techniques.
Care for patients with cardiac, pulmonary, neuromuscular, and infectious diseases, as well as post-surgical or traumatic respiratory deficiencies.
Perform assessments, treatments, testing, and related documentation.
Assist patients with repositioning or transfers and set up equipment for testing with additional assistance as needed.
Perform respiratory-related assignments such as nebulizer treatments, student teaching, diagnostics, ventilator management, or administrative duties, and participate in shift rotation and on-call hours.
Occasionally calm and/or restrain disoriented or agitated patients.
Come join our Respiratory Therapy team!!
Schedule: Night shift, mix of 9.5 hours and 12-hour shifts
2-week schedule rotation as follows: Week 1 : 3 days
Week 2 : 4 days
Shift: 9 PM - 6:30 AM (weekdays) and 6:00 PM - 6:30 AM (weekends)
Hours per pay period: 70
Position Summary:
Is responsible for providing direct patient care, under medical direction, through the use of diagnostic, therapeutic, life support and rehabilitative evaluation methods and techniques. Patient group includes those with cardiac, pulmonary, neuromuscular and infectious diseases as well as those with post surgical or traumatic respiratory deficiencies.
Job Relationships:
Reports to Director of Respiratory Care.
Education and Training Required:
Graduate from an accredited school of Respiratory Therapy
Current licensure as a Respiratory Care Practitioner in the State of Wisconsin or eligible
CRT or RRT (or eligible)
Certifications: ACLS, NRP, PALS (current or within 1 year of hire) BLS (required)
Meets health requirements
Experience:
Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Able to communicate and work effectively with others, possessing tact, discretion and diplomacy.
Ability to exercise independent judgment.
Maintains good physical and emotional well-being.
Role model for healthy lifestyle.
Physical Requirements:
Physical Demands:
Frequent sitting, standing and walking in order to perform assessments, treatments and testing on patients as well as documentation of same.
Frequent lifting, pushing/pulling and carrying up to 10 pounds of records and/or supplies.
Occasional lifting, pushing/pulling and carrying up to 50 pounds for assisting patients in repositioning or transferring. Must utilize additional assistance for moving or setting up equipment for testing.
Frequent balancing while leaning across beds and patients to assess and monitor.
Occasional bending, and kneeling while positioning patients and/or equipment.
Occasional reaching, handling and fine manipulation while setting up and administering treatments.
Sight:
Continuous use of near vision for computer work, policies/procedures, typing, etc.
Frequent use of near and accommodation while using computers for documentation and moving back and forth between computers and patients.
Occasional use of peripheral and far vision, depth perceptions and color distinction.
Cognition/Communication:
Frequent use of simple and complex reading, writing and math skills.
Frequent use of conversational and telephone skills.
Frequent leadership and teaching ability.
Continuous ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks.
Frequent goal setting, program development/community needs and regulations.
Environmental Conditions:
Continuous indoor, well-lit and environmentally controlled environment.
Frequent patient environment.
Occasionally works outdoors with temperature extremes related to weather.
Potential Hazards:
Frequent exposure to blood/body fluids and disease requiring PPE.
Occasional exposure to sharps and red, infectious waste.
Psychological, Situational, Functional Factors:
Continuous exposure to frequently changing tasks.
Ability to prioritize and management stressful situations.
Continuous use of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others.
Frequent flexibility in schedule as well as work assignments (i.e. nebs, teaching students, diagnostics or ventilator management or administrative duties, rotation of shifts, on call hours, sustained concentrations and use of interpretive skills when assessing patients an during testing procedures.
Occasionally may be exposed to disorientates or agitated patients who need to be calmed and/or restrained.