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Nursecare Buckhead

Job Summary: 
Restores patient’s pulmonary function; alleviates pain; supports life by planning and administering medically prescribed respiratory therapy.
 
Job Duties: 
<ul>
<li>Meets patient’s goals and needs and provides quality care by conducting pulmonary function tests; assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results; determining respiratory therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians and by prescription.</li>
<li>Helps patient accomplish treatment plan and supports life by administering inhalants; operating mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators.</li>
<li>Administers respiratory therapy treatments by performing bronchopulmonary drainage; assisting with breathing exercises; monitoring physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes; directing treatments given by aides, technicians and assistants.</li>
<li>Evaluates effects of respiratory therapy treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress; recommending adjustments and modifications.</li>
<li>Completes discharge planning by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers; contributing to patient care conferences.</li>
<li>Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing home exercise programs; instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommending and/or providing assistive equipment; recommending outpatient or home health follow-up programs.</li>
<li>Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.</li>
<li>Maintains patient confidence and protects hospital operations by keeping information confidential.</li>
<li>Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.</li>
<li>Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.</li>
<li>Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs.</li>
<li>Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.</li>
<li>Deyelops respiratory therapy staff by providing information; developing and conducting in-service training programs.</li>
<li>Complies with federal, state. and local legal and certification requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.</li>
<li>Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.</li>
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Skills and Qualifications: 
<ul>
<li>Bedside Manner</li>
<li>Physiological Knowledge</li>
<li>Infection Control</li>
<li>Health Promotion and Maintenance</li>
<li>Creating a Safe</li>
<li>Effective Environment</li>
<li>Informing Others</li>
<li>Verbal Communication</li>
<li>Medical Teamwork</li>
<li>Judgment</li>
<li>Procedural Skills</li>
<li>People Skills</li>
</ul>

Respiratory Therapist

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Respiratory Therapist