Travel Respiratory Therapist - $1,512 per week

Company: Club Staffing
Location: Vacaville
Posted on: January 11, 2021

Job Description:

Club Staffing is seeking a travel Respiratory Therapist for a travel job in Vacaville, California.Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Respiratory Therapist
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Start Date: 01/25/2021
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36.00 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, evenings, nights
• Employment Type: TravelJob Description & RequirementsRegistered Respiratory Therapist - (RRT)StartDate: 01/25/2021Available Shifts: 12 E/N Pay Rate: $1250.00 - 1600.00Assume primary clinical responsibility for all respiratory care modalities & to exercise considerable independent clinical judgment in the respiratory care of patients.
  
  Essential Functions:
  --- Reads & evaluates physician's orders, clarifying as needed
  --- Accurately transcribes physician orders to electronic charting system or departmental patient master.
  --- Reviews patient information including history, lab data, radiologic studies, progress notes, respiratory & cardiovascular monitoring data & performs assessment/data collection in systematic manner
  --- Systematically assesses patient's overall cardiopulmonary status by inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, & patient interview
  --- Interprets data to formulate goal-directed plan of care & determines requirements for treatment such as type & duration of therapy, precautions to be observed, equipment required, & medication & dosages.
  --- Determines modifications to physician orders, which optimize patient, care & makes recommendations to physician.
  --- Recommends procedures to obtain additional data including radiographs, bronchoscopy, Gram stain & C&S, spirometry, blood gas analysis, lung mechanics, work of breathing, EKG, noninvasive monitoring
  --- Performs procedures & interprets results: ABG sampling & analysis, co-oximetry, spirometry, pressure-volume & flow-volume loops, cuff pressure, sputum induction.
  --- May perform EKG's
  --- May place Holter monitor
  --- May perform pulmonary function, & sleep diagnostic tests
  --- May perform Exercise Stress Tests
  --- May perform indirect calorimetry
  --- Selects, assembles & checks equipment for cleanliness, proper function & safe operation.
  --- Ensures proper function & ready availability of respiratory related life support equipment
  --- Troubleshoots & performs minor repairs of equipment
  --- May perform Quality control procedures for blood analysis devices
  --- May perform Quality control, calibrate, maintain & troubleshoot pulmonary function diagnostic equipment
  --- Participates in routine departmental programs of cleaning, disinfecting & sterilizing of respiratory care & other related equipment
  --- Participates in routine departmental preventive maintenance program & performs basic repairs
  --- Orders/stocks departmental supplies
  --- Operates all medical equipment within manufacturer & dept guidelines to safely treat patients.
  --- Checks & adjusts alarms
  --- Observes established safety & security procedures & protects patients from nosocomial infection.
  --- Explains planned therapy or procedure & goals to patient in understandable terms to achieve optimal therapeutic outcome
  --- Conducts therapeutic procedures to maintain a patent airway, remove bronchopulmonary secretions, &/or achieve adequate ventilation & oxygenation
  --- Monitors patient's physiological responses to therapy, recognizes patient adverse reaction & stops or modifies or recommends modification to procedure based on patient response
  --- Documents all required information in the medical record according to departmental policy & procedure
  --- Initiates pressure-cycled/volume-cycled/high frequency ventilation
  --- Weans/modifies mechanical ventilation according to assessment & physician orders
  --- Assists with or performs extubation
  --- Conducts patient education & disease management
  --- Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to resuscitation guidelines
  --- May assist with or perform intubation
  --- May assist the physician when performing bronchoscopy, thoracentesis, tracheostomy, cardioversion, & intubation
  --- May participate in land/air critical care transport
  --- May assist with high risk deliveries
  --- May assist with surfactant replacement in neonates
  --- May participate in pulmonary rehabilitation, home care
  --- May assist with discharge planning
  --- May assist with community outreach
  --- May initiate & implement therapist driven protocols
  Required QualificationsCRRT, BLS, PALS, NRP2 years of recent RT experience in hopsitalPreferred Qualifications1 year in ICU1 year in Neonate/Pediatric Respritory careAbout the FacilityAs part of the esteemed Kaiser Permanente medical group, which offers nationally acclaimed medical services to thousands of California residents, this medical center is committed to a high standard of excellence. The facility opened its doors in 2009 and has made steady strides since then in terms of staffing and offered services. Today, the hospital is a 340,000 square foot, four-story facility equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology and offers a wide range of services, including 24-hour emergency and pharmacy, adult inpatient, and surgery among many others. Facility LocationSituated just outside Sacramento, Vacaville offers quintessential central California living at a lower cost of living than in larger cities. Vacaville exhibits the MediterrClub Staffing Job ID #1899388. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Registered Respiratory Therapist Registered Respiratory Therapist - (RRT).About Club StaffingAt Club Staffing, our motto, "Exceptional Healthcare. Delivered." is exemplified in the quality of services we bring to facilities across the country. Our clients not only gain access to the nation's most committed clinicians, they also gain the experience and professionalism that only a seasoned allied healthcare staffing company can bring to their most pressing staffing needs.
  Driven by the belief that strong relationships help to ensure high-quality patient care, we devote one-on-one attention to our travelers through dedicated recruiters and unmatched allied staffing services. We're proud to be one of the few travel healthcare staffing companies to receive Gold Seal certification from The Joint Commission, the country's largest standard-setting and accrediting body in healthcare.
  Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Club Staffing offers more job opportunities than other allied staffing agency, specializing in the national placement of diagnostic imaging professionals, rehab therapists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, surgical and lab technicians, nurses, physicians, and other allied healthcare specialists. Through American Mobile, our travel nursing partner, we also specialize in placing nurses in nationwide travel assignments.

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