Susan Simak
Palmetto,FL
Summary
Highly skilled and enthusiastic professional with more than 30 years of experience in acute and LTAC hospitals.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Respiratory Therapist Relief Supervisor
Kindred Hospital Saint Petersburg
09.2023 - Current
- Liaised with other healthcare professionals to develop comprehensive patient care plans and provide highest quality of care.
- Communicated with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private.
- Discussed medical histories with patients in effort to provide most effective medical advice
- Responsibilities currently are as previous employment with Kindred.
Respiratory Therapist Supervisor
Kindred Hospital Bay Area
12.2020 - 01.2022
- Placing, sizing and removing tracheostomy's with extensive trach care experience
- Weaning patients from ventilators, PMV and trach capping trials
- Assisting physicians with bronchoscopy's and tracheostomy's
- Rounding with physicians and developing patient care plans
- Intubations, obtaining ABG's and analysis
- Administering nebulizer treatments, MDI's, various routes of suctioning, CPT, EKG's, sputum collection, pulse oximetry and spirometry.
Respiratory Therapy Supervisor
Kindred Hospital LTAC
04.2016 - 01.2020
- Same as above
Travel Respiratory Therapist
Regional Medical Center At Bayonet Point
01.2016 - 04.2016
- Travel RRT involved in 13 week contract, performing basic Respiratory Therapy, nebulizer treatments, ABG's, spirometry and bedside PFT's.
Travel Respiratory Therapist
Fawcett Memorial Hospital
05.2015 - 08.2015
- Travel RRT in 13 week contract
- Performing basic Respiratory Care with mainly nebulizer, MDI, CPT, BIPAP/CPAP therapies along with patient assessments and obtaining and analyzing ABG's
- Ventilator setup and management for trach and ET tube patients.
RT Shift Team Leader
Lourdes Hospital
12.1995 - 02.2015
- Ensured quality control through assessment/treatment for a broad range of patients in 306 bed facility
- Responsible for ER, OB, PACU, Outpatient and all stat calls from floors during shift, along with keeping track of all treatments due and preparing workload for therapists
- Intubations, set up and maintaining ventilators, ABG's, EKG's, Nebulizer and MDI treatments, CPT, BIPAP's/CPAP's, Bedside PFT's, Overnight Pulse Ox studies for setup and downloading result reports for physicians
- Incentive Spirometry, various suctioning techniques and specimen collection
- Treating patients suffering from trauma, acute chest pain, respiratory failure, drug overdoses, attending high risk deliveries
- Maintaining two ABG labs according to CAPS protocols
- Charting accuracy through precise documentation
- Daily productivity and reconciliation reports on all treatments given in facility
- Patient/Family education as pertaining to respiratory procedures and therapies.
Education
Respiratory Therapy -
West KY Technical College
Paducah, KY01.1996
Skills
- ICU Experience
- Critical Care Experience
- Hospital Experience
- Vital Signs
- Laboratory Experience
- Health Care
- ACLS
- Microsoft Word
- Documentation
- Schedule Management
- CPR
- Microsoft Outlook
- Management
- Time Management
Certification
- RRT
- ACLS
- BLS
Certification And License Dates - Phlebotomy Training Course
11/01/22, Present
Timeline
Respiratory Therapist Relief Supervisor
Kindred Hospital Saint Petersburg
09.2023 - Current
Respiratory Therapist Supervisor
Kindred Hospital Bay Area
12.2020 - 01.2022
Respiratory Therapy Supervisor
Kindred Hospital LTAC
04.2016 - 01.2020
Travel Respiratory Therapist
Regional Medical Center At Bayonet Point
01.2016 - 04.2016
Travel Respiratory Therapist
Fawcett Memorial Hospital
05.2015 - 08.2015
RT Shift Team Leader
Lourdes Hospital
12.1995 - 02.2015
Respiratory Therapy -
West KY Technical College
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