Overview Senior Registered Respiratory Therapist Full Time, 72 hours per pay period, Day shift Parkwest Overview: Parkwest is West Knoxville’s premier medical facility and a top performing heart hospital. In addition to providing the area’s leading cardiac services, Parkwest has been nationally recognized for award-winning care throughout our facility. For 2020-21 Parkwest received recognition from U.S. News & World Report (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/tn/parkwest-medical-center-6520530) as one of the “Top 10” hospitals in Tennessee. Respiratory Therapy: The Respiratory Department covers all units of the hospital including critical care, ED and all inpatient beds. Our department is comprised of a manager, one supervisor, three shifts leaders, and a mixture of CRT, RRT, and ACCS staff. Respiratory therapy is a fast-paced, high-demand department where employees must work as a team in order to ensure quality patient care. We have a family-oriented type environment with a mixture of seasoned long-term employees and newer employees. Most full-time employees are on a set schedule consisting of 8 or 12 hour shifts, there are some variable shift positions within the department as well. Position Summary: Provides care to patients with respiratory insufficiency and related complications. Functions as part of the direct patient team to provide overall quality care and serves as a resource and specialist to patients, all patient care givers and physicians. May be required to exercise clinical judgment under the order of a licensed physician. Recruiter: Kimberlin Woods || kwoods8@covhlth.com || 865-374-5403 Responsibilities + Demonstrates respiratory care competency of critical and clinical skills on an annual basis. + Demonstrates the ability to be flexible, handle multiple assignments, balance priorities, and make decisions quickly and function under stressful situations. + Demonstrates the ability to perform all aspects of respiratory therapy to include age specific and related patient care in a safe and competent manner. + Demonstrates skill in emergency situations based up on department standards, policies, procedures and protocols, assumes a leadership role in emergency situations. + Demonstrates the ability to assess, identify and treat patient health conditions as established by organizational and departmental policies and procedures. + Demonstrates the ability to make safe, effective and competent decisions regarding individual patient care. Express sound judgment. + Demonstrates the ability to provide appropriate communication to nursing personnel and/or physicians, and other hospital staff as necessary. Must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills on all socioeconomic levels using tact, articulation and in a professional manner. + Demonstrates competency/proficiency in mechanical ventilation, CPAP, and BiPAP skills to include current modes of ventilation, indications for use and calculations of necessary data. + Demonstrates competency/proficiency in the performance of arterial blood gases and analysis per department policy and procedure. Quality control, troubleshooting, and quality assurance per department policy and procedures. + Participates in performance improvement activities by making suggestions for unit/organizational improvements, data collection activities, and date analysis as appropriate. + Documentation and charges are complete, accurate, timely and legible. Consistently document patient assessments, reassessments, patient education, goals, response to therapy and any other requirements for the patient medical record. + Performs assigned tasks and uses equipment with skill and accuracy. + Completes Quality Control procedures and documentation required by regulatory agencies, medical center and department policy. + Maintains all equipment in a clean and functioning order. Responsible for location and inventory of any RT equipment utilized on a routine basis. + Assumes responsibility for mentoring RT staff and orientation of new employees. + Perform other related duties as assigned or requested. + Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested. + Provide 8-12 hours of in-service education to staff and / or participation in critical care work groups annually. Qualifications Minimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority. Minimum Experience: Must have documented experience necessary to obtain state license. Licensure Requirement: Valid RRT and RRT-ACCS Credential by the National Board for Respiratory Care. Licensed as a Registered Respiratory Therapist by the State of Tennessee Health Related Boards with ABG endorsement. Current CPR. Apply/Share Job Title SR RRT ID 3725735 Facility Parkwest Medical Center Department Name RESPIRATORY THERAPY