Respiratory Therapist III

Founded in 1906, Dignity Health - St. Elizabeth Community Hospital is a 76-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Red Bluff, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center. Additionally, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center. It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As a Respiratory Therapist, you will join an established team of RTs who share your passion for delivering highly specialized cardiopulmonary care to patients experiencing breathing issues. You'll be instrumental in providing a range of treatments from breathing techniques and nebulizer treatments to ventilator management, oxygen therapies, and external ventilation support.

Every day you will apply your keen assessment skills and critical thinking to manage diverse patient needs, develop and execute effective care plans, and ensure calm, focused intervention in both routine and emergent situations.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, unwavering calm under pressure, and the ability to anticipate outcomes. Your dedication to patient well-being and exceptional problem-solving abilities will drive success in this vital role.

• Integrates patient diagnostic data, response to therapy, and the physiologic profile to create a plan of care that is sound and consistent with the departments standard of care or the departments procedures and protocols
• Establishes and maintains basic and complex forms of mechanical ventilation with proficiency which includes HFOV for neonates and adults, NPPV, CPAP, Nitric Oxide and in house transport of the ventilated patient
• Performs thorough cardiopulmonary clinical assessments with the appropriate inclusion of other body systems including cardiovascular, nutritional, neurologic, etc. Documents information and appropriately assigns triage scores, GCS scores, RT Evaluation and treatment scores and communicates this in an SBAR format to other health care providers
• Performs pulmonary mechanics on all eligible ventilated patients on a daily basis
• Collects appropriate data and presents patient information at ventilator weaning rounds. Discusses treatment options i.e., ventilator care plan as it pertains to the patient and communicates this plan to physician and/or appropriate members of the patient care team
• Collects specimens, performs basic procedures and assists in complex diagnostic procedures such as diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopies and bedside pulmonary function tests

Required

• Bachelors Other Respiratory Care, upon hire or
• Associates Other Respiratory Care and current Adult Critical Care Specialty certification, upon hire and
• 1 year work experience or
• 3 years of clinical experience, as required for Bachelors degree in Respiratory Care, in an acute care facility and
• Respiratory Care Practitioner: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire and
• Registered Respiratory Therapist, upon hire and
• Neonatal-Pediatric Specialty Respiratory Therapist, within 12 - months and
• Adult Critical Care Specialty Examination, within 24 - months

Preferred

• 4 years work experience in acute care facility to include adult, pediatric, and neonatal critical care