**Overview** **Your time at work should be fulfilling.** Rewarding. Inspiring. That’s what you’ll find when you join one of our non-profit CHI facilities across the nation. You’ll find challenging, rewarding work every day alongside people who have as much compassion as you. Join us and together we’ll create healthier, stronger communities. CHI Health St. Elizabeth founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889 is a full-service 260-bed nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln Neb. St. Elizabeth specializes in the treatment areas of newborn and pediatric care women’s health burn and wound cardiology oncology emergency medicine orthopedics and neuroscience. **Responsibilities** Our Respiratory Therapists are highly trained when it comes to performing specialized respiratory care including ventilator management, nebulizer treatment, chest PT, drawing arterial blood gases, oxygen therapies, external ventilation support and some pulmonary function assessments. RT Advanced Practitioner is a competency based designation specific to CHI Health for those ready to take the next step in their RT expertise. **Applying Your Knowledge and Talents:** + Assess and evaluate of the appropriateness and effectiveness of therapy based on patient’s age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs + Make recommendations for changes in specific modes of therapy + Educates patients and arranges home respiratory care services and patient therapy follow-up assessments using language and materials appropriate for age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs + Assumes responsibility for personal and professional growth through participation in department meetings, in-service programs and continuing education programs + Maintains established department policies, procedures and objectives, concerning quality assurance, safety, environmental conditions and infection control **Qualifications** **Requirements:** + Associates Degree in Respiratory Therapy from an accredited Respiratory program + Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) licensing from the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) upon hire + Active license in the state of Nebraska as a Registered Respiratory + Within 6 months of hire, must complete special competency program **_Join us at Catholic Health Initiatives, and become a part of our faith-based health system._** **Pay Range** $35.12 - $50.92 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.