Come join our team as a respiratory therapist in Lebanon, Ohio! We are looking to fill a full time night shift position, and are offering an 8500 dollar retention bonus!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The primary purpose of your job position is to provide direct respiratory care to the residents, and to supervise the day-to-day respiratory activities of the residents. Such supervision must be in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern our facility, and as may be required by the Director of Nursing Services and pulmonary provider or to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY:

As an RRT you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties with the respiratory scope of practice defined by the Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 4761-7-03

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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS STATEMENT:

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

SAFETY FACTORS:

Risk Potential to Blood/Body Fluids:

Category I: Tasks in this category involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues, and require the use of personal protective equipment.

Category II: Tasks in this category involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, and/or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned category I tasks.

Category III: these tasks require no exposure to blood, body fluids, and/or tissues, and category I tasks are not a condition of employment.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

Administrative Functions

• Direct the day-to day functions related to respiratory care in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility.
• Periodically review the departments and unit’s policies, procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc. Make recommendations for revisions.
• Meet with your assigned staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shift’s services, programs, and activities.
• Ensure that the Procedures Manual is current and reflects the day-to-day procedures performed on the unit.
• Ensure that all respiratory/nursing personnel comply with the procedures set forth in the Procedures Manual.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations concerning the activities of your unit as required to the Director of Nursing and pulmonary providers.
• Cooperate with other resident services when coordinating respiratory services to ensure that the resident’s total regimen of care is maintained.
• Ensure that all respiratory service personnel are in compliance with their respective job descriptions.
• Participate in the development, maintenance, and implementation of the facility’s quality assurance program of the respiratory service department.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as may be requested.
• Prepare the unit for pending facility surveys (inspections)
• Periodically review the resident’s written discharge plans. Participate in the updating of the resident’s written discharge plans as required.
• Assist in planning the respiratory services portion of the resident’s discharge plan as necessary.
• Participate in care conferences as needed.
• Interpret the department’s policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and government agencies as required as they related to respiratory department.
• Assist with admit, transfer, and discharge residents as required.
• Ensure accuracy of the accident/incident reports as necessary.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.

Safety and Sanitation

• Monitor the unit personnel to ensure that they are following established safety regulations in the use of equipment and supplies.
• Ensure that established departmental policies and procedures, including dress codes, are followed by all unit personnel.
• Assist the Director and/or Infection Control Coordinator in identifying, evaluating, and classifying routine and job-related functions to ensure that tasks in which there is potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded.
• Ensure that all personnel performing tasks that involve potential exposure of blood/body fluids participate in appropriate in-service training programs prior to performing such tasks.
• Ensure that an adequate supply of personal protective equipment are on hand and are readily available to personnel who perform procedures that involve exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Ensure that your assigned work areas (i.e., nurse’s stations, medicine preparation rooms, etc.) are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
• Ensure that your unit’s resident care rooms, treatment areas, etc., are maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner.
• Ensure that unit personnel follow established hand washing techniques in the administering of nursing care procedures.
• Ensure that unit personnel participate in and conduct all fire safety and disaster preparedness drills in a safe and professional manner.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the infection control program for monitoring communicable and/or infectious diseases among the residents and personnel.
• Ensure that unit personnel follow established infection control procedures when isolation precautions become necessary.
• Ensure that nursing personnel follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
• Participate in the development, implementation and maintenance of the procedures for reporting hazardous conditions or equipment.
• Ensure that all personnel wear and/or use safety equipment and supplies (e.g., back brace, mechanical lifts, etc.) when lifting or moving residents.
• Report missing/illegible labels and MSDSs to the safety officer or other designated person.

Education

• Must possess, as a minimum, a License/Degree from an accredited college or university/training program.
• Must have valid License and Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) with the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) (must obtain within 3 months of hire)
• Current BLS for Healthcare provider CPR or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Certification .

Experience

• On-the-job training provided
• Prefer 6 months experience

Physical and Sensory Requirements

(With or Without the Aid of Mechanical Devices)

• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
• Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination.
• Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile people within the facility.
• Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of twenty-five pounds.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.