RESPIRATORY CARE THERAPIST - 10082024-62235

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITY AND AGING, WEST TENNESSEE HOMES DIVISION, SHELBY COUNTY
This is a part-time position

This position requires a background check and fingerprints

Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Administers prescribed drugs and medications to the cardio-respiratory system; administers chest physiotherapy, postural drainage, and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation; inserts, maintains, and manages artificial airways, including intubation.
2. Provides patient evaluation; assists in administration of diagnostic procedures such as bronchoscopies, cardiac catheterizations, and advanced research technologies.
3. Provides respiratory care in conjunction with life support systems and critical care techniques.
4. Responds to medical emergencies as member of medical emergency response team.
5. Performs diagnostic procedures such as pulmonary function testing, EKG's, treadmills, etc.
6. Assists patients in the therapeutic and diagnostic use of medical gases, administering apparatus, humidification, and aerosols.

1. Monitors arterial blood gases to determine ventilatory status.
2. Monitors patient via assessment pre- and post-therapy for response to therapy.

1. Administers specific testing techniques, including measuring ventilatory volumes, pressures and flows, specimen collection and analysis of blood and other materials, and related physiologic monitoring.
2. Recommends changes in therapy based on patient assessment.

1. Prioritizes treatment procedures based on the immediate patient needs and therapist availability.

1. Ensures compliance with infection control per respiratory care departmental policy.

1. Calibrates oxygen analyzers.

1. Serves as technical resource and consultant/evaluator to primary care provider and other staff regarding the practice of respiratory care.

1. Troubleshoots respiratory care equipment problems.
2. Inspects and maintains respiratory care equipment for optimum functionality.

1. Maintains continuing education units to meet licensure requirements and increase knowledge base.

1. Provides education and training to other disciplines on delivery of respiratory care for continuity of care.

1. Supervises respiratory care technicians and/or respiratory care assistants in the delivery of services.

1. Verifies primary care provider orders.
2. Accepts telephone, fax, written, and verbal orders from primary care provider, adjusting treatment modalities based on these orders.
3. Monitors e-mail for relevant information concerning respiratory care.

1. Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintains them over time to enhance patient care.

1. Communicates with nursing, primary care providers, and interdisciplinary teams concerning treatment and patient status.
2. Provides report to oncoming shift concerning treatment and patient status.

1. Lifts and repositions patients for respiratory care procedures.
2. Assembles various pieces of respiratory care equipment required for services.
3. Stocks supplies.

1. Estimates following day workload based on current respiratory care assignments.

1. Documents telephone and verbal orders from primary care provider.
2. Documents therapy provided.
3. Records progress notes.
4. Documents daily work activities for productivity report.

1. Transports equipment and supplies to various locations as needed to provide services.

1. Performs daily tasks including maintaining information files and paperwork.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Functional/Technical Competency
2. Ethics and Values
3. Fairness to Direct Reports
4. Motivating Others
5. Compassion
6. Composure
7. Technical Learning
8. Directing Others
9. Informing
10. Priority Setting
11. Conflict Management
12. Approachability
13. Decision Quality
14. Organizing
15. Learning on the Fly
16. Comfort Around Higher Management
17. Dealing with Ambiguity
18. Standing Alone
19. Career Ambition

1. Knowledge of respiratory anatomy, principles, methods, medications, procedures, diagnostics, and treatments
2. Knowledge of current state and federal health care laws, codes, and regulations
3. Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
4. Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, statistics, and their applications

1. Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly
2. Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
3. Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job
4. Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
5. Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed
6. Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it
7. Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work
8. Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others
9. Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively
10. Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
11. Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance
12. Instructing: Teaching others how to do something

1. Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects
2. Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs
3. Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds
4. Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness
5. Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
6. Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
7. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
8. Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand
9. Eye Hand Coordination: The ability to maintain eye hand coordination
10. Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue
11. Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath
12. Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer)
13. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
14. Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects
15. Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness
16. Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures

Tools & Equipment

1. Pulmonetics LTV 950
2. Oxygen Concentrator
3. Suction Machine
4. High and Small Volume Air Compressor
5. Pulse Oximeter
6. Air and Oxygen Flowmeters
7. Percussors
8. Vest Machines
9. Computer