Respiratory Therapist - $29-58 per hour - Inova Health System : Job Details

Inova Health System is seeking a Respiratory Therapist for a job in Burke, Virginia. Job Description & Requirements Specialty: Respiratory Therapist Discipline: Allied Health Professional Start Date: ASAP Duration: Ongoing Shift: nights Employment Type: Staff Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is seeking a Respiratory Therapist 1 to join the team. This role will be full-time night shift 36 hours per week 7:00PM to 7:00AM with Weekends. Sign On bonus and relocation assistance eligible. Featured Benefits: • Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program. • Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day. • Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans. • Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost. • Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities. Responsibilities - Administers basic respiratory therapeutic interventions (i.e. gas/humidity therapy, bronchial hygiene, CPT, lung inflation, airway management, manual ventilation, resuscitation and medicated aerosol) with moderate proficiency and occasional supervision. - Establishes and manages basic mechanical ventilation with the most commonly used ventilators with moderate proficiency and occasional supervision. - Performs weaning mechanics as ordered with high proficiency in more than 90 percent of ventilator patients cared for. Reviews the need for continuing ventilator support (i.e. spontaneous breathing trail, weaning) in more than 90 percent of the ventilator patients cared for on a daily basis. - Collects specimens and performs basic diagnostic testing (e.g. EKG, sputum collection, bedside spirometry) with moderate proficiency and occasional supervision. - Displays a moderate degree of accuracy in the interpretation of basic diagnostic and monitoring data (e.g. spirometry, CXR, culture and sensitivity, blood gases) in the majority of the patients cared for. - Formulates basic plans of care based on diagnostic data, responses to therapy and the physiologic profiles of patients cared for. Uses effective time management in work organization and triaging. - May perform additional duties as assigned. Requirements - Graduate of an accredited CoARC (The Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care) respiratory care program. - Certified Respiratory Therapist by the National Board of Respiratory Care. - Basic Life Support from AHA upon start - Licensed Respiratory Therapist and eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Inova Job ID 657819. Posted job title: respiratory therapist 1 full-time night