Respiratory Therapist / RT

Overview

Join our team as a night shift, PRN Respiratory Therapist (RT) in Harker Heights, TX.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here:

People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:

• Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities.

Your team is bigger than your department:

• Seton Medical Center Harker Heights is an 83-bed acute care hospital offering services such as Cardiology, Emergency Services and a Level IV Trauma Designated ER, General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Total Joint Replacement, Gastroenterology, Diagnostic Services and more.

• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.

Responsibilities

• This position is responsible for assisting in the delivery of personalized, professional and quality patient care, internal and external customer service.

• Performance of all diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, emergency airway/respiratory management.

• Documentation of the procedures performed and their effects.

• Cleaning and performing user service on the equipment.

• preparation of all departmental paperwork, answering the department's telephone, entering and retrieving patient information from the, Electronic Medical Record (EMR).

• Maintaining the work area in a clean and organized manner

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited school of Respiratory Care

• Associate of Applied Science Degree

• Licensed by the Department of State Health Services as an RCP- Respiratory Care Practitioner

• RRT- Registered Respiratory Therapist credential obtained by the NBRC.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

• STABLE Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), required within 6 months of employment

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Previous employment as a Respiratory Care Therapist