Respiratory Therapist

Opportunity:

Respiratory Therapist - Registered Respiratory Therapist

Job Details:

• Provide cardiopulmonary services as either a registered or certified respiratory therapist
• Follow protocols approved by medical staff and department policy and procedures to deliver timely diagnostic and therapeutic services to inpatients and outpatients
• Assist physicians with invasive and non-invasive procedures
• Deliver medicated aerosols via medical compressed gas
• Maintain airways and manage ventilators
• Perform arterial line insertions and intubations
• Conduct pulmonary function studies, cardiac and pulmonary stress tests, and blood gases
• Minimum 2 years of recent respiratory therapy experience with intubation experience required
• NBRC RRT or CRT certification required
• Tennessee RT license required
• ACLS and BLS certifications required (must be through the American Heart Association)