JOB SUMMARY: Provides quality Respiratory Care according to departmental policy for the following patient groups: Neonatal/Pediatric/Adolescent or Adult/Geriatric. Performs approved procedures and monitoring of equipment to promote a positive outcome. Educates the patient, medical house staff and other allied health professionals to assure continuity of care. Assists with clinical instruction and skill building of student and intern Respiratory Care practitioners. Evaluates and implements procedures based on appropriate utilization of current trends in cardio-respiratory technology.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Graduate of an AMA approved two or four-year program for respiratory care or satisfies the requirements as outlined in the admissions policies of the NBRC for registry examinations. No experience required for beginning practitioners.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) by the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) and licensed to practice as a RCP in the state of North Carolina required. Basic Life Support (BLS) required. Peds: PALS and NRP required within 90 days of employment. Adult: ACLS required within 90 days of employment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.
- Provides respiratory therapies, following age appropriate standards of care and departmental policies and procedures throughout the hospital.
- Initiates and maintains mechanical ventilation and airway support following age-appropriate standards of care.
- Reports routine clinical procedures regarding patients to relief personnel to ensure continuity of care for the patient. Performs and maintains competency for point-of-care testing, as assigned, ensuring compliance with WFBH policies and with applicable state and federal regulations.
- Providing invasive and non-invasive monitoring to ensure patient safety and appropriateness of care.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge and ensures QI to enhance service to customers.
- Ensures age/developmentally appropriate patient care is provided in accordance with Age-Specific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
Communication skills including verbal, non-verbal listening skills.
Ability to provide direct and indirect respiratory care.
Ability to perform multiple tasks under stress.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Regularly exposed to patient blood products from collecting/procuring specimens and wearing protective equipment in response to the blood products according to OSHA standards
Frequent exposure to infectious and contagious diseases (Airborne pathogens, TB, etc.)
Works with caustic/toxic chemicals and drugs.
Subject to handling emergency, crises, and stressful environments
Climate controlled, clean environment
Subject to many interruptions
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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