LP Limited Permit Respiratory Therapist

Caring For the Community You Love Choose a career to make a difference in people's lives every day, choose Fisher-Titus. Perks of working at Fisher-Titus: Hours of Work- Full time Comprehensive Benefits Package- Medical & Dental coverage, 401K match, paid time off, tuition assistance and more. Shift, Weekend & PRN differential About Fisher-Titus: Fisher-Titus proudly serves the greater Huron County area's 70,000-plus residents by providing a full continuum of health and wellness care from heart and cancer care to outpatient services such as lab, imaging, and physical rehabilitation. Vision: Be the first choice for healthcare and employment within our community Mission: Deliver compassionate and convenient care to the highest level of excellence that promotes lifelong health and wellness for our community General Summary: Provides respiratory care to patients as assigned and given on a physician's order for both in-house and out-patient care. Essential Functions: Responsible for the safe and effective administration of medically prescribed medications, knowing their indications and contrainications. Knows and follows the indications and contraindications, the policy and procedures in administering therapeutic modalities to include: IPPB, IS, HHN, MDI, DPI, ETC. Sets up and monitors oxygen administration. Sets up oxygen cylinders and assures proper usage and safety measures are in place. Performs bedside PFT tests. Performs arterial punctures using radial, brachial, and femoral sites independently. Draws off arteriallines to obtain sample for blood gas analysis. Be a member of the Code Blue and "Rapid Response Team" responding to arrest situations. As part of the team may be expected to perform CPR (compression). Must be certified inCPR procedures and manual Ventilation. Perform patient assessment, deveops care plan for implementationand for Registered Therapist approval.