Experienced Registered Respiratory Therapist with over 10 years of experience working with adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients experiencing respiratory complications.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Ascension St. Vincent Evansville
10.2014 - Current
Delivering respiratory medications via hand-held nebulizer treatments, MDI’s, DPI’s or other inhalation devices.
Providing COPD and asthma education, OSA education, and smoking cessation counseling.
High flow oxygen therapy, bronchial hygiene and pulmonary volume expansion therapies, bedside spirometry, overnight pulse oximetry studies, home oxygen evaluations.
Working alongside physicians assisting with and performing intubations, extubations, airway management of intubated and non-intubated patients during procedures with sedation.
Inhaled nitric oxide initiation and management, surfactant administration, attending high-risk deliveries and c-sections, CPAP initiation and management, ventilator initiation and management.
Responding appropriately to rapid response team activations, PET, BET and code blue activations, and internal critical care transports.