Respiratory Therapist

What you'll do as a Respiratory Therapist here

This role at Research Medical Center puts you in the middle of both routine care and critical moments. You'll be guiding patients through some of their toughest days, using everything from basic oxygen support to advanced ventilator management.

You'll work across emergency, critical care, and acute settings. You'll perform diagnostic procedures, manage invasive and noninvasive ventilation, and jump in when things change fast. The team around you is solid ; experienced RT leaders who mentor, physicians and nurses who partner with you, and respiratory technology that actually works.

Scheduling is consistent and predictable here. That's not nothing in healthcare. It means you can plan your life outside work while still making a real difference inside it.

• Assess respiratory status by doing focused exams, interpreting breath sounds and airway patency, then deciding what interventions are needed
• Deliver evidence based therapy like oxygen support, aerosolized medications, airway clearance techniques ; across emergency, critical care, and acute settings
• Manage ventilation by assisting with artificial airway placement; starting and adjusting invasive or noninvasive ventilation; monitoring patient responses; reacting quickly when something changes or an emergency hits
• Support patients by educating them and their families; serve as a clinical resource for the care team; help stabilize newborns during deliveries when that's needed
• Maintain equipment by setting up, operating, and cleaning respiratory devices; keep everything ready for use with preventive maintenance; transport ventilated patients safely; follow infection prevention standards every time

What you need to bring

• (NBRC RRT) Registered Respiratory Therapist
• (RRT/RCP State) Respiratory Therapist/Practitioner credential
• A Bachelor's Degree or an Associate Degree or graduation from a Vocational School program for Respiratory Therapy
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) ; must be obtained within 6 months of your start date

The benefits package at Research Medical Center

The full total rewards package here covers health, life career growth retirement everything really. Here's what they offer:

• Comprehensive medical coverage: Many common services at no cost or low copay. Includes prescription drug coverage behavioral health free telemedicine services free AirMed medical transportation.
• Dental & vision benefits plus life & disability coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Supplemental health protection plans: accident coverage critical illness hospital indemnity plus auto home insurance identity theft protection legal counseling long term care moving assistance pet insurance more.
• Free counseling services & resources for emotional physical financial wellbeing.