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**$15,000 Sign-on Bonus & Relocation Assistance Available**
We recognize that our patients deserve qualified, engaged, and competent healthcare professionals. And we know that our healthcare professionals deserve a working environment that is safe, leaders who are visible and supportive, and opportunities to grow and develop in their chosen disciplines. The heart of St. Joes is in its people, making our hospital a family that only the best is invited to join. If you feel that your skills and compassion fit with our vision for healthcare, we invite you to apply today.
PRIMARY (ESSENTIAL) DUTIES
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.
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.
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.
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.
WORK CONDITIONS/HOURS
12-hour shifts - schedule is based on the department needs.
Requirements
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); If registry eligible, must obtain registry within one (1)-year of hire date
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
Full time benefits and retirement.
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