Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)

• Evening Shift (3pm – 11:30pm) = 8%
  


• Night Shift (11:00pm – 7:30am) = 11%
  


• No Weekend Differential
  

Requirements

1. Provide respiratory therapy (conventional/routine) to all patients of all age groups, infants to adults, as ordered. Explains purpose and procedure of treatments, tests, and equipment to patients.
   


2. Receive assignment. Check patient chart and physician's orders. Set up equipment and medications and administer treatments as ordered, e.g., oxygen administration, humidity therapy, airway management, resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, postural drainage procedures; closed atmosphere and respiratory monitoring, intermittent positive pressure breathing, aerosol therapy, and pharmacology respiratory therapy. Chart treatment, response, and progress.
   


3. Monitor environmental control systems, others. Deliver and set up equipment and monitor patients on continuous ventilation. Do nasotracheal and tracheal (endotracheal tube or tracheostomy) suctioning.
   


4. Make patient rounds regularly. Observe patient, check equipment, and change/make adjustments as necessary. Solve problems. Discontinue therapy as ordered. Remove equipment from patient rooms, disassemble, etc.
   
   
   MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
   

• High school diploma or GED
  


• Permanently licensed by the Idaho State Board of Medicine as a Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP
  


• Registered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC)
  


• 2-years' experience in the adult critical care setting within the last 5-years
  


• ICU experience within the last 3-years
  


• BLS
  


• PALS - completed within three (3)-months of hire date
  


• ACLS - completed within three (3)-months of hire date
  


• NRP - completed within one (1)-year of hire date
  

Benefits

• Sign-on Bonus $15,000
  


• Medical Insurance
  


• Vision InsuranceLife Insurance
  


• Retirement
  


• Equity Relocation Assistance & Housing Allowance Available
  


• Dental Insurance
  


• Paid Time Off
  


• Relocation Assistance & Housing Allowance Available
  


• Other
  
  
  
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