Richard Baldauf

worked as a traveling respiratory therapist at three hospital

1. Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico,.

2. Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital inGreenville , South Carolina

3. PresNow in Albuquerque New

Mexico

• Documented treatment effectiveness and patient outcomes in medical records.
• Monitored patient's physiological responses to therapy such as vital signs, arterial blood gases and blood chemistry changes.
• Administered appropriate respiratory treatments to patients using medical equipment.
• Provided antibiotics, bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory medications with hand-held nebulizers, metered-dose inhalers.
• Managed and operated mechanical ventilators to deliver airway management.
• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
• Delivered treatment for patients experiencing chronic and acute respiratory illnesses by conducting assessments and providing diagnoses.
• Maintained patient charts and information, strictly adhering to HIPAA laws and privacy guidelines.
• Assessed, diagnosed and treated breathing issues.
• Analyzed and ran tests and conveyed results to other staff.
• Conducted tests such as EKGs.
• Responded to emergency codes and calls during off-hours and immediately initiated treatment.
• Assessed response to planned care through monitoring and recording patient condition.

• worked in the Pulmonary Diagnostic Lab
• preformed PFTs, collected sputum, drew and analyzed venous and arterial blood.
• assisted with pulmonary stress test.

Started as a night shirt therapist

eventually became the diagnostic care coordinator

worked in general respiratory care throughout the hospital. I preformed PFTs and assisted with bronchoscopes. Worked with ABL blood gas machines. Managed Vision Bi-Pap machines, Ge NetScape ventilators and Vapotherm high flow oxygen