Respiratory Care Pract III Southwest Facility

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 229-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II NICU, cancer care, women’s health, and orthopedics. Additionally, Mercy Hospital Downtown & Mercy Hospital Southwest have been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. They are both Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Centers. Mercy Hospital Downtown offers the only inpatient Oncology Unit in Bakersfield while Mercy Hospital Southwest has the only Obstetric Emergency Department in Bakersfield.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Respiratory Care Practitioner, you will competently provide essential respiratory care for neonate, pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients. Your expertise is vital for critical respiratory interventions and patient well-being.

Every day you will perform arterial punctures, continuous ventilation, airway maintenance, emergency care, infection control, isolation procedures, mechanical ventilator operation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and medical gas administration.

To be successful, you will possess advanced clinical skills in all aspects of respiratory care across age groups, meticulous attention to detail, a strong commitment to patient safety and infection control, and the ability to perform effectively in emergencies.

• Advanced Practitioner level responsibilities. Provides expertise in care to all areas of the hospital and all patient populations on an independent level. Functions as a resource for both internal and external customers in all aspects of Respiratory Care.
• Performs advanced duties of Respiratory Care as outlined in the American Association of Respiratory Care's Clinical Practice Guidelines: http://www.rcjournal.com/cpgs/index.cfm
• Respond to emergency call throughout the hospital and perform emergency respiratory care procedures in accordance with departmental guidelines.
• Provide basic and advanced life support measures to all patient populations concentrating on area of expertise: Airway and Ventilation.
• Performs electrocardiograph testing and related procedures.
• Performs EKG testing to all patient populations and have basic knowledge to determine discrepancies in machine interpretations.

Required:

• One year clinical experience working as a licensed respiratory therapist in an acute care setting and
• Experience must include emergency department, adult, pediatric, neonatal and general respiratory care and
• Respiratory Care Practitioner: CA
• Registered Respiratory Therapist
• Basic Life Support - CPR
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program

Preferred:

• Bachelors Of Science Respiratory Therapy and Advanced practitioner level experience and ability to perform independently in the NICU and Adult ICU's, upon hire
• Neonatal-Pediatric Specialty Respiratory Therapist, upon hire and
• Adult Critical Care Specialty Examination, upon hire

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.