Full Time Registered Respiratory Therapist

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.

Essential Function

• Administering therapy modalities which include, but are not limited to, Hand held Nebulizer (HHN), HHN via
  metered dose inhaler (HHN/MDI), Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV), Chest Physical Therapy (CPT),
  Pentamidine therapy.
• Medication administration may be included during these therapy modalities
• Administering medical gas therapy including oxygen and Helium-Oxygen Therapy (HeO2).
• Performing ventilation therapies, including maintenance and management of life support systems. These
  therapies are comprised of non-invasive and invasive ventilation therapies, as well as transport of ventilator
  patients to diagnostic procedures
• Performs physiological monitoring and diagnostic testing including, ABG puncture, bronchoscopy assistance,
  pulmonary function testing, bedside PFT's, metabolic monitoring, apnea monitoring, transcutaneous monitoring,
  capnography, and pulse oximetry and sleep apnea assessment.
• Performs specialized procedures which including but are not limited to, CPR, bronchial lavage, transport,
  cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, artificial and tracheostomy airway care, and body mechanics/ambulation.
  
  

Licenses/Certifications 

Required
Respiratory Care Practitioner: TX (RESP-LIC:TX) 
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) 
Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR)  within 14 days

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)  within 6 months