Unit Notes:
• Strict 75 mile radius rule
• RRT's only- Critical Care experience required
• Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience and 1 travel contract
• Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience. (300+ Beds experience required).. There will be a hospitalist who will respond to codes, but a respiratory therapist will be the first line when it comes to intubating patients, so I won t be able to take therapists who don t have that experience or are not comfortable with intubating patients. Also, our therapists have to be used to high and heavy workloads
• Will interview with our internal RN's and then their profile and the internal notes are sent to Phoebe for approval, NO Second interview will be needed.
• Unit: Respiratory # treatments per day: Therapists do 550 minutes per shift, average of 15 minutes per treatment. Average of 13-15 patients per shift
• Certs - RRT, GA state license, BLS, ACLS, PALS, if going to NICU need NRP
• EMR: Meditech
• Charge RT: Yes, run a Charge and Clinical Coordinator
• Weekend Requirement: M-Thurs team and a weekend team; you will work M-Th or F-Sun team--hours will shift, will be noted in job posting which hours needed
• Holidays: Rotated in with perm staff; every other holiday can be expected
• Call: None
• Scrub Color: Ceil blue, can wear ceil blue jacket only
• Vents: Servo vents (U and I models)
• Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: In house 24/7 (either MDs or NP)
• Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
• Shifts: 645 am and pm starts; can clock in 638am-646am or 638pm-646pm, otherwise late
• Floating n/a
• Floor specific orientation: For floor assignments, first week is hospital and charting orientation; next week list lightened, take 300 min first day, 400 next and then 500 next and then on their own; For ICU, they will add another week of orientation
• Types of patients (adults, peds, and neonates): NICU RTs are under nursing manager for NICU; they are separate from adult needs; adult will do peds to adults
• Duties : All RT duties such as nebs, airway management, vapotherm, bipap, cpap, vents, ABG collection, bedside pfts, CPT, in ICU the RT will place A line, manage blood gases, will intubate, do bronchs
• Common Patient disease processes : COPD, CHF, pneumonia, resp failure, ARDS, cancers, etc
• Additional Notes: Assignments are based on units; in ICU for example are up to 4 airways per therapist (airway considered a vent, heated aerosol trach off vent, etc); Average 11 therapists on days and 10 or 11 on nights based on unit needs; floor therapist needs minimum one year experience, if critical care need minimum of 2 years
• Additional Questions: Are they able to work critical care They must be able to work adult ICU and work the vents. They will teach them A lines, will need to feel confident making suggestions for vent management, read ABGs and alert critical values.